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Estes rocket ID
What is the name of the rocket Vern Estes is holding in this old catalog?
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...s67/67est2.html |
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Looks to be some sort of BT-60 reduced to BT-50 home-brew mess.
The fins look to be some Red-Max like pattern way before that kit was designed. The balsa adapter appears to be the same as used in the Astron Cobra kit. Other than in this pic, I have never seen it.
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Yep, I was thinking it was a home brew but you never know. I have a kit or 2 that was never in a catalog.
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Do you have photos handy of those kits? Probably a fair amount of interest here to see some kits that a good number of us might have never seen. Earl
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Based on the caption below the picture it indicates that it might have a cluster of engine since he is discussing cluster ignition technologies and in 1967 terms to boot. I was thinking that it may be a kit from one of the other companies around that time. I was using the fin shape to try and figure what kit is was, but no luck.
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I strongly doubt that you would ever see a competitor's rocket in ANY Estes publication, let alone one as widely distributed as their catalog. |
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I'm betting it's a home-built based on Estes parts...........
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SPEV and Stinger are the only two Estes kits I know of .... are there others? |
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Long John Silver and possibly the Mini-Brute Hornet.
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I believe the mini-brute Hornet was in either the '73 or '74 catalog...it was only around in one catalog.
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