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Estes Saturn V Is Back!
Oh Boy! I get to be the one to announce it here first!
The Estes SATURN V is listed on the Estes website, moved to the "What's New" listings . http://www.estesrockets.com/002157-saturn-v At this moment, if you go to the product page it shows it "Out Of Stock" But we are closer to lots and lots of masking!
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Hope they make the new plastic fin a viable separately. I need them to update my old kits.
They would make the fins step much easier to build. |
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Hear! Hear! Perhaps they'll offer the plastic parts kit separately like with the LJII. There must be a million SV's out there with busted fins and crushed LES's!
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They are finally reccommending realistic motor choices for this kit with the E30-4 and the E12-4.
They should completely drop the D12-3 from the list...unless there is zero wind and one wants a lame-O flight it is useless. The 24mm SU F32-4 is a great motor for this kit.
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The most realistic flight profile is the single D12-3. Slow and majestic...but it ends a little soon. 3 C6's kick it off the pad quickly, more like the space shuttle. Just about any composite motor makes the liftoff profile look more like a Nike booster. As for multiple exhaust flames, if you keep the mount at it's stock recessed location, you won't see much flame out of smaller outboards. A10's have about finished their peak thrust by the time the rocket clears the pad.
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That's what I was thinking (besides the multiple exhaust flames) regarding the 1:100 scale Saturn V--three 18 mm composite "D" motors, with their greater aggregate "dry weight" (after their propellant is consumed) than a single "E" or "F" motor, should provide slow, realistic liftoffs (three D10 composite motors might be a good match for the Estes Saturn V's weight). (The plastic, RTF Cox Saturn V had that same realistic ascent with two D12-3 motors, which the model needed due to its greater weight.)
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Believe it or not, the old K-36 Saturn (with the 3-motor or D option) would actually fly just fine on just TWO C6-3s if one happened to not ignite. Don't ask me how I know that. In fact, it probably flew better on two C motors because two C6 motors have more total impulse than an single D-12 (though it was the slightly more "potent" though less reliable D-13 that was initially used in the old Saturn).
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The 1/70 Saturn 1B was originally a 4 engine cluster and the A8-3 was a recommended motor. The rocket is listed within 0.04 oz of the weight the Saturn V, but I bet most 1B's were/are heavier due to the way most folks glue and paint them. Four A's are the equivalent of a single C motor. We've flown ours on 4 B's (equivalent to 2 C's), but we never had the courage to try four A8's.
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