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Old 04-30-2009, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by GregGleason
Taking Scott's release list of 13 kits and comparing it to the back cover photo, I can immediately eliminate the following 9 kits:

Swift
The Point
Tomahawk
Laser-X
Little Joe II
Saturn 1B
Saturn V
Nike Smoke
V2

That leaves us with 4 possible kits:

FireFly
Astro-1
X-21
Marauder

Greg


The Firefly is in the photo - front and center, just to the right of the Mach-10. Isn't that an Astro-1 immediately above the Mach-10?

It's certainly not an X-21. No amount of black paint could disguise that. Plus, Bob said it wasn't a glider.

My first thought was that it was a Marauder with smaller booster fins, but I had talked myself out of it. Maybe that's what it is after all. It sure does look like the Space Shuttle orbiter on a different booster, though.
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