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Old 11-11-2019, 08:30 AM
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Agreed, but I understand that the big Quest motors were semi-port burners like the old Estes C5-3 that provided a real kick off the pad with a lower sustaining thrust.
The Estes F15/E16 are end-burners with lower launch thrust.
Unfortunately only Estes remains in the SU BP engine market, and they continue to show zero interest in making anything in the form of a port-burning high thrust booster.
Yes, I'm still "beating this dead horse" and will continue until somebody ( hopefully Estes ) brings back some port burners.
Incidentally I managed to get 2 sealed packs of good-date-code C5-3s off eBay for the reasonable price of $13.99 very recently.
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