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Saturday, April 28, 2018 - WSR cornfield launch
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2 |
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Wow !
That's a lot of flights in one day. Not a single E9 explosion either.
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C'mon, man. I tried. Everyone was disappointed. It's kind of a tradition at this point.
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Maybe I'm just lucky, and it's been about 4 years since flying one, but out of several dozen E9's I have never had a single cato.
I never even had a cato with the OLD mid-90's Estes E15's and those were notorious for that.
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Here's my best E-9 cato.
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Man, what an amazing photo of what looked to be a very nice rocket at one time.
Personally, I'd never had a single cato, ever, until a couple of years ago an E9 blew the fins off of and the internals out of my D-Region Tomahawk. Estes went their typical beyond A plus service when I notified them. That's why I often buy rockets directly from them when I could get them cheaper elsewhere.
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I've managed a few of them over the years. The RDC Starflite, FSI Viking V and FSI Dart. All clones. All except the Dart eventually flew again.
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Even without FSI motors, the FSI rockets wanted to fly apart!
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Or make the motors inside them blow up...
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Bill-
Those are some incredible E9 cato pics. If you told me those were from FSI E-kaboom-60's, I would DEFINITELY believe it !
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