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Old 01-15-2014, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Fireman
The RRS broke the ground for our hobby.
Estes (Vern) threw them under the bus, HARD.
He personally did the same thing with "sparkies".

Let's at least be historically accurate.

cites:

http://www.oldrocketforum.com/archi...php/t-2448.html

http://rocketry.wordpress.com/2008/11/

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!t...ets/1y3iy33omto

Read those carefully. ATF has since gone against igiters, so we have "starters". They used to be exempt per 55.141(a)(7). As was all Class C (UN 1.4).

http://www.v-serv.com/usr/motors/g68f.html
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