04-11-2007, 08:34 PM
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Junior ??? Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Knightdale, NC
Posts: 1,470
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dwrunyon
Bill Simon:
- Alpha
- SPEV
- Started the BT nomenclature for body tubes.
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Vern said if he remembered correctly, the Sky Hook (K-6) was Bill's first Estes design.
The SPEV is questionable. Gleda said that Bill was fired the first day Damon took over. The SPEV was almost four years later. If it was a "Spare Parts Elimination Vehicle", Bill had to have had a real vision. I think it may have been an inside joke to put his name on it as the designer.
This is a great thread, by the way!
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