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Old 02-27-2010, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by blackshire
Here's another interesting item from that seller (see: http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-70S-FLY...533666887701567 ). It's a RTF Cold Propellant rocket (NOT Vashon or Estes). I remember seeing them in hobby shops at the time but never had one. The same company also made a large RTF jet airplane that used one of these Cold Propellant motors, along with smaller spring-loaded "catapult gun" and elastic Hi-start launched versions of the jet (if memory serves, the smaller one was called the "Dyna-Jet Whiz"). Their planes had fuselages made of thin red or blue vacu-formed plastic, with solid sheet balsa wings and tail assemblies that had laminated "decal skins."


THAT'S IT!!!!!

That's the rocket I received as a gift when I was about 9 or 10! It came with a small can of RP-100 propellant, which had just enough to fly it about six or seven times if you carefully managed the loading.

Noticed the page indicated there was no propellant, probably to satisfy eBay, but the package I received had both a small (half?) can, and an Estes catalog...

I thought I'd never see another one again. Thanks for the flashback!
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