02-03-2017, 05:20 PM
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Golden Anniversary of the second-longest running model rocket kit
Estes' K-25 - the Astron Alpha - first appeared in the 1967 catalog, so it has been in production for 50 years this year. Perhaps we should all build an Alpha with some kind of golden livery.
No, Estes Industries isn't doing a commemorative kit/livery - I already asked 'em.
Hmmmmmm......maybe we should have an Alpha gathering at NSL along with the already-planned V-2 mass launch.
Thoughts?
(Oh, of course the Big Bertha is the one that has been in production longer than the Alpha, in case anyone here didn't know that. It first appeared in the 1966 catalog, and was an MRN design before that.)
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