03-13-2019, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by dwmzmm
I have the original "earlier" Phantom model; always take it with me when doing demonstrations and/or assisting in Scout launches. Draws a lot of attention; everyone (especially the adults) want to get pictures of it.
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*Stretches, flexes cloven hooves, combs grayish-white beard against nearby bush, taps horn against it to discharge magical flux* It's an earlier Astron Phantom, but not the earliest; ^here^ http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...63/63est10.html is the earliest (1963 Estes catalog) listing of the earliest version of the Astron Phantom (which last appeared in the Fall 1971 catalog: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...2/712est50.html ). The "Alpha III-like Phantom" made its debut in the 1972 catalog: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/72est060.html . (Interestingly, it looked longer than the later "Alpha III-like Phantom" kits [it was 12.6" long], and the Alpha III kit--as listed in the same 1972 catalog [see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/72est012.html ]--was 12.25" long, actually 0.35" *shorter* than the Phantom. That was apparently the 'standard' later Phantom's length, though, as a 'randomly-selected' citation, in the 1987 catalog, also listed its length as 12.6" [see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...87/87est60.html ].) |