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What is this model?
More to follow....
What an experience. Terry. This is what we were looking for!
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[Oo, oo! Mr. Kotter! Mr. Kotter!]
Looks like a Rock-A-Chute to me, Carl. MK-1, from Bal-Rock Industries, 407 South 9th St., Norfolk, Nebraska. Orville Carlisle, proprietor. But I could be wrong. If a kit of that rocket was re-introduced, it would quite possibly be the Mother of All Retro-Repros! Mark \\.
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Strange. Those spars almost look metallic.
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But, but, but.... looks too new to be a real one! And that AVI motor! Most important though, Carl.... Did you get your Golden Scouts built and flown??
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What it looks like to me is "very interesting"! I'd guess a real Mark I. The lug tube is not spiral wound. Hmm.
Carl, it was great getting to talk to you at NARAM. Thanks for eveything you did toward the Sky of Gold. Thanks will never be enough.
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I wanted to say it looks like a scale (or full sized) model of the Congreve rocket......
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Yep - That's a Mark 1 and by the thickness of the tube walls and the construction ...it looks original. Maybe repainted but original.
So what's the story Carl?
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looks like a replica to me.
The original as far as I am aware, didn't have that end centering ring in it. Plus there's something wrong with the scale or maybe its just the picture. Plus the body tube is sprial wound....I think Orv Carlilse would have been using hand wound convolute wound paper tubes; or maybe he did use spiral wound, I again don't know for sure. so whats the story Carl? terry dean
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A bit OT here, Rick, but I enjoyed meeting you and seeing and learning about your crayon sharpeners.
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If it is a Mark I: With all due respect to the historical significance of the Mark I, that's one ugly rocket! Of course I'd buy it anyway if it were re-made as a Retro-Repro.
Before now I had never seen a Mark I, but in the description of the Mark II on the Semroc site it says that the Mark I looked more like fireworks than it's replacement the Mark II and the rocket pictured sure looks more like fireworks than a rocket to me. |
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