12-21-2017, 01:21 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by JohnNGA
I remember hearing 'reading' that Estes had acquired some (if not all) of MMI's inventory. That curved deflector looks to be same one included in the MMI Arcon kit. In the 2nd 1961 Estes catalog a complete MMI style launch pad was offered, at least it looks like one.
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Yes--the earliest Estes catalogs feature the vinyl plastic MMI Aerobee-Hi (and Arcon) nose cone, and perhaps other MMI rocket parts (I think Estes re-designated the MMI body tube--or at least subsequent-production tubes of the same size--as BT-40).
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