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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!eos!aio!arabia!hack
- From: hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
- Subject: Re: Estes Vostok
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.161358.25862@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: Edmund Hack
- Organization: Lockheed ESC, Houston
- References: <1993Jan10.053945.5509@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <1993Jan11.152336.21738@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:13:58 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1993Jan11.152336.21738@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> rjungcla@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (R. M. Jungclas) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan10.053945.5509@ennews.eas.asu.edu> elder@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Greg Elder) writes:
- >>The latest AmSpam has an ad from Acme Rocket Company. They have an
- >>old Estes Russian Vostok kit for sale. I've never seen this before, and
- >>I don't have an old catalog that shows the rocket. Can anybody supply
- >>me with information about this kit (size, appearance, type motors it uses
- >>(A-C, or D size), etc.)? Has anyone ever built one of these before?
- >>Thanks for whatever anybody knows.
- >
- >The best description of the kit is "scale like" or "pseudo scale" as the
- >4 strap-on tanks are only "profiled." That is these tanks are reduced to
- >"flat surface" which acts as the fins for the model rocket. The rocket
- >flies with a single A-c engine and it either BT-60 or BT-55 based.
- >
- I remember this and thinking it was a really crummy looking kit. One of
- the things that I have pulled out of my box of old rocket stuff from 20
- years ago is a complete, unassembled MPC Vostok kit. This is a plastic
- model that they converted and included parts for either a display
- version or a flight version.
-
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