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Old 11-17-2016, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by hcmbanjo
You mentioned the D13 engines were subject of a recall.
I read and kept most all correspondence from rocket manufacturers.
I don't remember any recall notice sent from Estes.
Maybe the recall only reached the hobby stores.

Right after they became available, my first D13 was in a Goblin.
Ignited, went up five feet and blew a fireball out the top.
The inside tube was sooty but no other damage to the rocket.

I never tried the other two engines. They are stored with some other old engines,
still in the mailing tube.


No, they weren't 'recalled'. They were just silently replaced with the D12.

the D13's came out in 1969. We never had problems with them until '71. But boy, when they started popping, they were popping all over the place! In my 'Rocket Film' on YouTube account royatlvideo, after the NARAM 13 section, there's a launch of a large silver and white two-stage rocket were BOTH stages went kaboom.
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