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Sacrificial animals only get used once... Estes got double-duty out of one basic design with just a nose job and some cosmetics... Then there was the Photon Disruptor and the Proton Torpedo -- same idea... Star Dart and Vector were simple models that flew well and looked good on the shelf. You needed to keep the power down to 1/2A and even 1/4A if you wanted to keep them. That was the problem with most of the models in the Mini Brute line and those that followed. They were more appropriate for upper-end Micro-Maxx motors than they were for low-end 13mm.
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I've still got this one, launched on an A10-3T! The streamer didn't do a whole lot for slowing it down, but it did help a great deal in tracking it, and finding it. We could clearly see where it fell, but once the other rockets in the launch cycle were done I had forgotten the exact spot, but after about 2 minutes of canvassing it was noticed by the fellow who had been crazy enough to fly a double C staged Hercules in a pretty small field in somewhat heavy wind! Man, that guy was a lot of fun... and he actually recovered the booster and payload section of his Herc, but not the main body! RE: Two or One Piece Body: This one was a one piece, until I had to cut it open for 25yr old petrified wadding and stuck stick removal surgery! |
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According to John's tube reference list on YORP http://rocketshoppe.com/info/Estes_Body_Tube_List.pdf having never had this kit, had assumed maybe a runing change ( ie: newer plans on YORP show one tube ) . Possibly an error on John ( and co ? ) list, but would be the first one that's cropped up . ( and THANKS GUYS for the excellent and helpfull reference, I have it saved for use , and doso regularly when cutting tubes,saves running to each individual plan, or great for " what can I build with this tube" Same list shows Vector as 5.0" ( and Pulsar, would have to measure my vintage builtup Pulsar, will do that today when out to the 'rents, if I remember ) . Also of note is a 6" tube,as used on the Hawkeye and red Alert kits, so possibly Star Dart used a 6" tube in later years ? hmm... ~ AL note : double posting this in plans so as to get this thread back on topic and the Star Dart thread on it's own . |
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Thanks :-) I had a vintage bandito back in the day ( one of TWO original Centuri kits I ever had back then, Centuri was just not sold around here ) . don;t recall how it was painted, but do recall losing it to a tree at my grannies, flown from small farm field out back, with mucho trees, lost my Wizard there on first flight, too. The paint sceme is 'semi-catalog' , witht he solid 'ring' at back you noted. Fins from cardstock were a pain - not near as nice as they photograph , I coated them with titebond (3-4 thin coats ), made them much stiffer , and easier to finish, however, they are warped some, partly from the coating, partly from installation. funny how the ' simple,easy, clones' wind up being a challenge, lol ... ~ AL umm.. on topic, well nice enough here today to fly a few maybe, but doubt we'll get to fly until the 12th club launch . ( Geneseo ,NY ) |
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Funny, that... I got into rocketry as a 4-H project. NOBODY around here sold rockets then, so I had to mail order. I sent a letter requesting a catalog to both Centuri and Estes the same day, and I got the Centuri catalog several weeks before the Estes catalog arrived. So, almost all of my rockets back then were Centuri. Quote:
On both of my originals, I just assembled them according to the instructions. I recently cloned the Vulcan, and on my clone I infused the leading edges of the fins with CA; I see no warping in either of the clone Vulcans I built, so I intend to do exactly the same thing with my Bandito clone.
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