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Old 06-18-2020, 08:28 AM
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The earliest version shipped with white, then a few years later they were changed to blue.

That's what I remember, but I didn't buy kits and had no way of knowing for sure.
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Old 06-18-2020, 09:02 AM
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Exactly what Tbzep said. The Cobra 1500 reflected heat with the white/yellow scheme snd stayed straight. The Mean Machine warped via sunlight in everything but an overcast day.


Maybe that is why they switched the paint scheme on the new version......though I doubt it.
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The Mean Machine warped via sunlight in everything but an overcast day.

That's why to carry the Mean Machine on a specially built rotisserie. One side won't heat more than the opposite side, if it rotates around the correct axes.
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Old 06-18-2020, 01:36 PM
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My Cobra 1500 was one of only two rockets I successfully flew on a FSI F6-7. The other was a Phoenix Bird.
My Mean Machine was destroyed on I think was my first foolish try of the FSI E60 junk-motors. It may have been a F100.
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That's what I remember, but I didn't buy kits and had no way of knowing for sure.


I did some hunting in the catalogs, and turned up this...

Estes Mean Machine colors through the years:

Black and white (ca 1978-1992)
Black and blue (ca 1993-2004)
Black and yellow (ca 2007-2013)
White and blue (2018-present)
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I got one with the blue decal in the early 80s.
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Old 06-18-2020, 03:23 PM
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I did some hunting in the catalogs, and turned up this...

Estes Mean Machine colors through the years:

Black and white (ca 1978-1992)
Black and blue (ca 1993-2004)
Black and yellow (ca 2007-2013)
White and blue (2018-present)


The interesting thing about the one on ebay now is that it appears to be in first year packaging, best I can tell. Now, it is an open kit, so there is NO guarantee with ANY open kit that the parts in it are original to that kit. Given that though, IF this is an early year (especially first year kit), it is interesting it has the blue decal then already.

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I got one with the blue decal in the early 80s.


I was going with what I could see in the catalogs. Estes is notorious for not updating their photos back in the 70s and 80s (The Cherokee-D still showed the pre-Damon logo in the 1983 catalog).
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Old 06-18-2020, 03:30 PM
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If someone wants to get me a scan of the blue decals, I could finish my sim of it and the white one. I've seen the image that JimZ's site has, and I can't use it.

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