Hobby lobby and estes composite motors ?
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Was just at my HL today. All black powder no composite.
USAFmissileer
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Sonic starters but no composites at ours
Launching rockets (or missiles in my case) is so easy a chimp could do it. Read a step, do a step, eat a banana.
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Launching rockets (or missiles in my case) is so easy a chimp could do it. Read a step, do a step, eat a banana.
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In my area they have a couple packs of the sonic starters but no composites,
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Same here, wish they still carried the composites, it was really nice to pick up a G motor at 40% off...
Composite motors are ap motors like aerotech, loki, gorilla, and CTI.
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Motors with much higher specific impulse propellant than BP -- therefore much lighter for the same power. Also considerably more expensive.
Composite propellant usually requires different ignition systems than BP motors.
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Thank you for the explanation!
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When Estes came out with the Pro Series II E2X line and the BP motors, HL dropped the original Pro Series II and AP motors. Don't know why. With the 40% off coupon, it was a great way to get cheap AP motors with no HAZMAT!
chrisudy
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They dropped the composites because they no longer sold any rockets that recommended them. All of the E2X have BP only recommendations.
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