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Old 04-29-2017, 08:34 AM
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Interestingly the MPC line was a General Mills product line! Mass market effort extreme.
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Old 04-29-2017, 10:08 AM
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The Omega is indeed a three stage rocket. The boosters were sold separately. One paid something like $2.00 for the sustainer, and the boosters were $0.50 a piece. That is a detail I had forgotten until I looked at the catalog recently. I have a copy of the catalog page, somewhere, I just can't locate it at the moment.
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Old 04-29-2017, 10:31 AM
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I've been on the ninfinger site lots of times to browse catalogs, but never noticed the AmRocs catalog.

The Omega is a neat design. I can understand the fascination. It reminds me of a stager a childhood friend built. It was Estes Design of the Month, #27, from 1964 -- the Deacon. His model was the first I'd ever seen with fully filled balsa parts showing no grain. Inspired me to do better finishes.
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Deacon, that's a cool design, time to order some parts from Semroc...erockets.
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Old 04-29-2017, 03:00 PM
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Deacon, that's a cool design, time to order some parts from Semroc...erockets.



The plan is in Estes Model Rocket News Vol 4 No 3 November 1964. Complete with a parts list and full size patterns.

Also here on the JimZ site, although the patterns may have to be scaled to get the right size


http://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/eirp_27.htm


The root edge of the booster fin should be 2 3/4". The root edge of the upper stage fin 5.0".

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The plan is in Estes Model Rocket News Vol 4 No 3 November 1964. Complete with a parts list and full size patterns.

Also here on the JimZ site, although the patterns may have to be scaled to get the right size


http://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/eirp_27.htm


The root edge of the booster fin should be 2 3/4". The root edge of the upper stage fin 5.0".

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Joe..thanks for the info.

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Old 04-30-2017, 01:53 AM
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Here is the MRN issue with the Deacon fin templates that Joe mentioned. These old stagers are cool.

http://www.oldrocketplans.com/mrn/m...3/MRN_V4_N3.pdf
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Another MRN three-stager that was really cool was the 3-stage Ring Rocket. One I have always wanted to build, but never got around to.
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Another MRN three-stager that was really cool was the 3-stage Ring Rocket. One I have always wanted to build, but never got around to.



GH, do you know which MRN issue had that plan? I don't recall that one, but I'd like to see it.


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GH, do you know which MRN issue had that plan? I don't recall that one, but I'd like to see it.


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Estes Design of the Month, #976 on JimZ site.
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