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Estes Model Rocket Line Up
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Rocket Constructor  
Joined: Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:58 pm
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 Estes Model Rocket Line Up Posted on: Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:04 pmI was just wondering if anyone here know why there was no Armadillo Aerospace rocket in the Estes X-Prize rocket line up? I was a little disappointed when I saw that.
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Space Walker  
Joined: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:01 am
Posts: 173 Location: Dallas, TX
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Posted on: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:09 pm I had actually been wondering that too. It may be because our design was changing so much, or it may be something as simple as that we didn't supply proper plans. In any case, I have never heard the actual answer.
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Space Station Commander 
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:44 am
Posts: 625 Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands
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Posted on: Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:43 pm Maybe they had trouble making it land vertically?
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Space Station Commander
Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:25 am
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Posted on: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:09 pm The guy who designs the actualy Estes rockets can be found over at www.starshipmodeler.net
He calls himself roguepink there. I suggested a very simple SEA DRAGON to no avail. He has his hands full with the SS1 model. |
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Moon Mission Member 
Joined: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:56 am
Posts: 1104 Location: Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
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Posted on: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:58 am I would imagine that's a pain to make a functional model of, much less one that's mass-marketable.
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Space Station Commander
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:44 am
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Posted on: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:39 am It would be awesome to have a White Knight model plane which could launch an SS1 model rocket
 . I guess it would be very tricky to get the rocket to go up though, instead of shooting off horizontally from underneath the plane. |
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Space Station Commander
Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:25 am
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Posted on: Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:22 pm It might be posible to shove a model out of the back of the plane, like the Air Launch in last weeks Av Week. It made the cover. The photographer took the picture that made the cover in close up--making the tiny air launch rocket look like Sea Dragon.
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Rocket Constructor
Joined: Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:58 pm
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Posted on: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:12 pm Lourens wrote: It would be awesome to have a White Knight model plane which could launch an SS1 model rocket .I have a video of a model B-52 dropping a X-1, it looks pretty good. The X-1 was R/C powered by a D or E size engine maybe. |
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Moon Mission Member 
Joined: Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:38 pm
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Posted on: Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:37 pm blade_pride wrote: I have a video of a model B-52 dropping a X-1, it looks pretty good. The X-1 was R/C powered by a D or E size engine maybe. BTW, the X-1 was dropped from a B-29, not a B-52. |
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Rocket Constructor
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Posted on: Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:05 pm I think this is the pic of it...
http://www.rcwarbirds.com/paulsb29page.htm Soon as I get home I will dig up the video and post it. Not sure why I said b-52... oh well Edit: Here is a low rez of it, about middle of page. http://www.koolflightsystems.com/video.htm |
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Moon Mission Member
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Posted on: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:16 pm That is just way way TOO COOL!  |
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Space Station Commander
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Posted on: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:24 pm I wonder if there are any new kits out there...
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