Estes - Screamer (TK-2 or #0802) Gallery

This one I did just for me... Back in the very early 70's Estes introduced the 13mm 1-3/4" long shorty motors. Along with them were designed 3 "MINI Brute" Models. the FAMOUS Mosquito, mini-Bertha and this model The Mini-Screamer. Wow did these little models GO on those 13mm bp motors!

I just had to add this Micro Screamer to the collection in minimum diameter T2+ (.281") making the over all length 4-3/16". Turned Basswood for the Nosecone and 1/32" basswood fins even with two color paint and a 1/2" x 9" yellow teflon streamer/wadding this little model still only tips the scales at 2.45grams. With a Liftoff weight of 3.55grams it truely is a SCREAMER! if you build one it's very advisable to have several extra pair of eyes watching as it Teleports to very high altitude in a flash! I Give full credit to the streamer/wadding for bringing this model back again and again. If it were only noseblow it would have been lost on the first flight.
After logging over a dozen flights I've yet to get anything other then smoke or it still sitting on the pad before liftoff. When the motor starts it's just GONE.. to well over 200 feet. This one is really fun to fly!

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Mine was a one flight wonder. Disappeared on an A10-3T. Bright orange rocket on a perfect carpet of snow. Whodafigured?

I have been too chicken to fly my Screamer on anything larger than a ¼A3-3T. Here's my Screamer, but I still need to scrounge up some decals for it.

Here are close-ups of the TK-1/0801 Mosquito, the TK-2/0802 Screamer and the TK-3/0803 Mini Bertha. These were the three debut kits introduced in the fall of 1971.

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I did two screamers for the kids. Given their trouble finding their rockets I went with yellow over red. The Mini-Bertha is a clone also.

NARAM 55 E9-4 flight. BT-70 upscale with home made decals. Pretty happy with how it turned out.

Welcome to the Estes Screamer (TK-2 or #0802) Gallery on TRF.

This gallery showcases the Estes Screamer (TK-2 or #0802) and those rockets derived from it. Particularly appropriate in this thread are the following:


Estes: Screamer: TK-2 or #0802
MMWW: (Estes) Screamer (T2+): #357a
MMWW: (Estes) Screamer (T3): #357b



as well as any upscales, downscales, clones, kitbashes or other derivative works. Even Goonies qualify!

Estes Screamer (TK-2 or #0802) Basic Information.

Estes Industries

MODEL NAME: Screamer Also known as:

NUMBER: TK-2 or #0802

Introduced: 1971
Final Year: 1982
Designer: Bill Simon

Type: Sport
Motor Mount: 1x13mm
Recovery: Streamer
Stages: 1
Length: 7.8"
Diameter: 0.541"
Span:
Weight: 0.225 oz.

Mfg. Description: Spectacular streamer recovery. Balsa and paper construction with simple paint pattern and decals. (Estes 1971 Catalog 2)



1971 Catalog 2










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MMWW (Estes) Screamer T2+ (#357a) Basic Information.

McCoy's Micro Wonder Works (MMWW)

MODEL NAME: Screamer T2+ Also known as:

NUMBER: #357a

Introduced: 2008
Final Year:
Designer: Bill Simon, John McCoy

Type: Sport, Downscale
Motor Mount: 1x6mm
Recovery: Streamer
Stages: 1
Length:
Diameter:
Span:
Weight:

Mfg. Description:



Plan Image










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MMWW (Estes) Screamer T3 (#357b) Basic Information.

McCoy's Micro Wonder Works (MMWW)

MODEL NAME: Screamer T3 Also known as:

NUMBER: #357b

Introduced: 2008
Final Year:
Designer: Bill Simon, John McCoy

Type: Sport, Downscale
Motor Mount: 1x6mm
Recovery: Streamer
Stages: 1
Length:
Diameter:
Span:
Weight:

Mfg. Description:



Plan Image










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This rocket really lives up to it’s name!!! It is very fast and most of the time you just see the trail of smoke. I think that that is much faster than the Swift and is one step up from the Mosquito, but that is just my opinion. Here are my plans to make your own Screamer. Share them with your club and friends.
If you do not want to roll a body tube print out the plans on a sheet of plain paper and cut out just the color part of the body. Then wrap it around a BT-5 and glue it with white glue. Draw a straight line across the body tube in order to line things up. You still want to make the fins out of cardstock. You can also just take my plans and print out one of the fins and use it for your pattern. Add a five inch section of BT-5 and a BT-5 nose cone and you are off and running on making a Screamer.
It flies very well on a quarter or half A. If you want to put a full A in it, go ahead and be my guest but you might want to have another one printed and ready to build because you will probably never see that one again.

Finally finished the Estes Screamer.

I am working my way through the Mini-Brutes that I have decals for, and this is the last one.

I will be cramming in the longest streamer in hopes of getting it back.

goose_in_co said:

Finally finished the Estes Screamer.
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I am working my way through the Mini-Brutes that I have decals for, and this is the last one.

I will be cramming in the longest streamer in hopes of getting it back.

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My first rocket! Have a good time!