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The Phantom returns!
I was browsing the newly released 2019 Estes catalog and there’s a whole page (92) with the newly re-released Phantom (1207).
My wonderful wife tracked down a mint in package Phantom (then many years OOP) for Christmas in 2011 or 12. I don’t recall if it has the cutaway engine. I haven’t built it. In fact, I’m not sure where it is right now. Cheers, Jon
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Your older one will have a cutaway engine of sorts....a vacuformed part and half of an engine casing (some assembly required).
I’m really looking forward to the new release in part to see how the new cutaway engine is done (hopefully better). I’m also more than a little curious of that nose cone in the picture - it looks to be a different shape than the prior one (which is just an Alpha III/IV/VΙ nose cone molded in clear plastic). I’d love to know when they will be available even though I have three of the older ones - two built up and one in the bag. The built ones both had one fin broken off some time before I got them (as kits), but CA at least gets ‘em back on easily enough. I also replaced the supplied 4-inch lengths of PST-50 with 5.5-inch ones so that they're the same size as an Alpha III instead of being so stubby. Nice to see the new 1207 has also adopted that approach, it appears.
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And painting. At least there's no sanding! .
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I'm going to have to buy one to FLY to ruin the tubing with the ejection charge.
Made an ugly orange mess in the tube of the one I launched in 8th grade with a B14-5.
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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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That's not the earliest Phantom, but definitely the style I launched.
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(NOTE: As Miss Emily Latella [spelling?], Gilda Radner's character on "Saturday Night Live," was famous for saying [after giving disjointed editorial comments], "Never mind." :-) The 1974 Estes Custom Parts Catalog lists the Quasar, Alpha III, and Phantom plastic fin units *here* http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/cu...tnose.html#fins , and the Alpha III and Phantom ones have identical dimensions. [The listings also indicate how much of the trailing tip--a triangular-cut piece--should be cut off to recreate a Quasar fin unit from an Alpha III one, if desired; a 0.313" triangular piece should be cut from each fin's trailing tip to make a Quasar one.])
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All three examples of the 1207 Phantom I have in my possession use parts which are dimensionally identical to the Alpha III fin can and nose cone.
A goodly chunk - I don't know right now the specifics - of the 1207 Phantom's run had a 4 inch piece of PST-50 for the body tube. This again includes all three examples I have. However the catalog height dimension was never changed when the kits did. You're suggesting that perhaps the initial 1207s had a 6-inch-long piece of PST-50 which would make that model the same size as the current Alpha VI and the nameless Alpha III sibling in the 5302 Rocket Science Starter Set. For the two 1207s I've built, as I've mentioned before, I substituted a 5.5-inch-long section of PST-50 so that they're the same size as an Alpha III/IV.
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