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Old 10-26-2005, 11:47 AM
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Default Estes E30? question / history

Can anyone shed any light on what if anything happened with the Estes E30 engines ?
These (E30-5, E30-7) were listed as reccommended engines for the 1990's Pro Series Terrier/Sandhawk combo rocket along with several D12 and E15's.
I know the story of the E15 being "kaboom" prone but never saw or heard anything of the E30s....what's the deal here ?
Were these never brought out due to problems with the E15's ?
Does anyone have any samples ?
Would like to add one to my collection.
I assume these were BP motors, as this was before Estes was associated with North Coast/Dark Star.

Incidentally, I have several E15 Estes motors NIP, and whenever I have used them, they performed flawlessly, which is NOT something I can say for my stock of FSI D18/D20/E60/F100 engines.
With exception of the F100, the FSI core-burners have CATOed on me at least 40% of the time.
The F100 has been about 20% kabooms.
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