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It sure does look like a PNC-50BB nose cone and aft "nozzle" to me.
I'd love to see someone whip out a build that looks just like what's shown and fly it by this weekend. Wouldn't be difficult if you had the time to just do it. If I was retired and going to ROCStock, I'd debut it there. But I am slammed with work. |
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This process reminds me (fondly) of what much of what I have been up to in model rocketry lately: trying to work out a model's dimensions, features, and parts based on a less than perfect (ancient catalog) picture and my concept of parts available at the time.
The difference is that the unknowns are only temporarily so and that I am not at this time much of a fan of the model rocket company. |
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I got mine today, looking at it I wonder if they found a stash of the balsa nosecones. I think it was used on the reissue Satellite Interceptor. I like the look a lot.
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Nice to see rounded leading edges on the main fins in the face card rendering.
Balsa nose cone....that might be the constraint for the "limited edition".
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SI seems to use the PNC-50BB nose and nozzle: https://estesrockets.com/wp-content...INTERCEPTOR.pdf Unless there's a newer version that reverted to wood. |
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People are starting to get their kits. Would be interesting to see if the NC p/n callout in the instructions is the same 070254.
------------------- And it is 70254: https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...-5#post-2419225 |
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“John, we have 300 nosecones we found in the warehouse…”
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That certainly sounds plausible!
My two arrived today. I'll be opening one up later this evening.
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Yes the reissue SI # 3027 used the balsa cone. This balsa cone was also more recently used on the 2016 Sequoia https://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/estes/est7238.pdf |
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