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![]() Sorry on BT-52.
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I had previously seen BT-52 tubing listed, many years ago, and it wasn't in a regular Estes catalog. I may have seen it listed in Estes' "Custom Parts Catalog" (which dates to 1974), but I think I saw it listed in the instructions of an Estes kit that I once built--but I can't remember which one it might have been. ALSO--speaking of the Estes Thor-Agena B kit, *here* http://www.google.com/search?q=Este...iw=1440&bih=794 is a set of nice color photographs of Hans "Chris" Michielssen’s beautifully-built-and-detailed Thor-Agena B model.
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![]() About the only places that I have seen the BT-52 used as an external tube are the Thor-Agena B (K-28), the Semi-Scale Saturn V (K-39/1239), and the Colonial Viper (1310) kits. BT-52 was more often used as a sleeve over the BT-50 motor tubes in several 'D'-powered kits. John Brohm's Estes tube reference goes into a bit more detail about which kits used the BT-52 as a sleeve. An interesting note is that the BT-52 used on the K-39 is actually a bit too small for the correct scale (1.014" as opposed to 1.081"). I suspect that Estes just used the closest available tube for that kit to save money.
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![]() I just noticed today the Super Big Bertha and Astron Explorer are listed in stock. Order away!
https://www.estesrockets.com/new/00...er-big-berthatm https://www.estesrockets.com/new/00...tron-explorertm
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![]() BT-52 was used in the SPEV also.
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![]() If I got the Explorer, I'd kitbash it, to make it more of a Sci-Fi spaceship.
Make the connecting tubes longer. Make the upper tube shorter. Cut the nose cone apart and add transparent tubing . . . that is what that cone was designed for originally, as I recall! Turn the fins around. Maybe add pods on the tips.
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I might kitbash mine with ducted ejection—Trident style.
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