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Estes Little Joe I
Am I the only one who had no idea about this?
https://www.facebook.com/estesrocke...?type=3&theater "SNEAK PEEK! 👉 Product Development Director, Mike Fritz, loads a production model of the NEW Little Joe 1 kit due to be released soon. Witnessing the launch are Estes team members (left to right) Dave DelVecchio, Mary Roberts, Chandra Serfoss, and Angela Everhart. We test fly a lot of rockets in Penrose! Did you know that every rocket kit sold by Estes has been flight tested many times during the course of product development? A minimum of three flight test models are built and flown multiple times with every recommended rocket engine. These flights are witnessed and the flight data is recorded."
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Not the only one - more great news!
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Okay, so I read it right. I wasn't sure. Can't figure out why this isn't causing more than a slight tremor. I would have thought a new scale kit would be huge!
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc - Starfighter Scorpion Centuri - Mini Dactyl Estes - F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II, Xarconian Cruiser Semroc - Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark |
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The new Estes Little Joe I kit will feature fins built up out of wood and covered with thin
card stock.
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Awesome news. I figure as soon as I scratch built one using the shapeways capsule somebody would put one out.
Super happy to see its Estes!! And I agree I would think it would be huge news.
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Argghhh. I'm trying to cut way back on kit purchases, but this is one I'll get.
I guess it will use the same capsule as the Mercury Redstone?
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I'll get it his one too despite a huge kit backlog.
If memory serves correct, this is the first Little Joe I kit from a Major manufacturer.
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Enerjet had plans for a Mercury Little Joe (Little Joe I) in their Jan., 1973 newsletter. You can read about it in Chris Michealsson's blog here:
http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot...ttle-joe-i.html It used the same Mercury capsule currently being sold separately by Estes. With the parts list, templates, and instructions from the newsletter, it was easy to build a clone. It had nozzles made from cut off golf tees, but I left those off. And it was semi-scale, not true to scale, with the body lengthened a bit for stability. Last edited by BARGeezer : 06-22-2018 at 03:34 PM. |
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The Little Joe 1 by Enerjet was never released as a kit, it just appeared in the newsletters as a suggestion for a modeler to build.
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You're right, will correct my post. Thanks. |
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