Stephen Henderson
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Did a search of the threads, and didn't find what I was looking for (nor was google overly helpful).
First, thanks to everyone who contributed to my first post regarding getting back into the hobby. I've been exploring the forum and getting LOTS of information here about everything. Great group of people! Surprising, in this day in age, to find a forum without trolls, noise, and other nonsense. Great going guys and gals!
It took most of my neurons to remember my favorite rocket as a kid - the Estes Corsair (turns up my suspicion that the Mac game "Escape Velocity" did, indeed, take some designs from Estes - The Kestral, in particular).
I managed to find a pdf of the instructions via google (I guess I lied about google being a dead end, above), but without more information, I don't think I could reproduce the nosecone. I have a 3D printer (well, technically, my housemate does and I've never used it) so I could likely print something that would work, but I'm thinking of attempting to reproduce it...
UNLESS there is a way to get an original kit somewhere. I had my Corsair, back in the 80s, suspended from my bedroom ceiling. I've NO idea what happened to the rocket and, if I did pack it in one of the numerous boxes of crap in storage, I'm assuming it has not survived.
Besides the Corsair, what luck have folks here had with recreating their childhood favorites?
I did find, through google, some links claiming to connect with old Estes catalogs, but when redirected to the Estes site, one gets a 404 (more eloquently worded, of course). Are the old catalogs on the net somewhere that I'm not finding?
Thanks everyone! Back to building my Supernova (don't think I ever did a two-stage "back in the day"...)!
Cheers,
stevehelium
First, thanks to everyone who contributed to my first post regarding getting back into the hobby. I've been exploring the forum and getting LOTS of information here about everything. Great group of people! Surprising, in this day in age, to find a forum without trolls, noise, and other nonsense. Great going guys and gals!
It took most of my neurons to remember my favorite rocket as a kid - the Estes Corsair (turns up my suspicion that the Mac game "Escape Velocity" did, indeed, take some designs from Estes - The Kestral, in particular).
I managed to find a pdf of the instructions via google (I guess I lied about google being a dead end, above), but without more information, I don't think I could reproduce the nosecone. I have a 3D printer (well, technically, my housemate does and I've never used it) so I could likely print something that would work, but I'm thinking of attempting to reproduce it...
UNLESS there is a way to get an original kit somewhere. I had my Corsair, back in the 80s, suspended from my bedroom ceiling. I've NO idea what happened to the rocket and, if I did pack it in one of the numerous boxes of crap in storage, I'm assuming it has not survived.
Besides the Corsair, what luck have folks here had with recreating their childhood favorites?
I did find, through google, some links claiming to connect with old Estes catalogs, but when redirected to the Estes site, one gets a 404 (more eloquently worded, of course). Are the old catalogs on the net somewhere that I'm not finding?
Thanks everyone! Back to building my Supernova (don't think I ever did a two-stage "back in the day"...)!
Cheers,
stevehelium