Estes Website updated

[Jacques]

Estes has updated their website and six of the X-Prize rockets are listed in the "New" category. Funny, but the Phoenix and the V-2 are no longer listed, neither is the C11-0!

 

[Donaldsrockets]

Originally posted by Jacques
Estes has updated their website and six of the X-Prize rockets are listed in the "New" category. Funny, but the Phoenix and the V-2 are no longer listed, neither is the C11-0!

Yeah I saw that, those items were most likely discontinued. There is a thread on here mentioning the C11-0. I think it was discontinued due to it's unreliability to light an upper stage. I'm not sure why the V-2 was discontinued, maybe because it barely flew on the E9 because it was just too heavy. I myself found this out the hard way. :kill:

I did see the new releases but I have a gut feeling that they won't be released this fall. More like the winter or spring of 2005. Estes usually starts shipping new releases a few months late.

Those kits do look cool though, I'd like to get them all

 

[Stymye]

not just the V2, but all of the maxi rockets are discontinued

they were limited reissues

 

[Donaldsrockets]

Originally posted by stymye
not just the V2, but all of the maxi rockets are discontinued

they were limited reissues

Yeah, those were a limited production in 2000. They have been OOP since then.

I have all 4 of them. They were nice kits too. The Super Big Bertha and Maxi Alpha 3 fly like a dream, nice and slow to about 400-500 feet. The Honest John is awesome and the V-2 flies nice and high on the D motors.

I'd like to see those reissued.

 

[Stymye]

Donald,
the maxi's are a big favorite of mine too!!

I'm halfway thru building the Pershing now
I have 2 V-2's done and one Honest John done
Super Big Bertha done
I haven't started my Maxi Alpha and Saturn V yet


My goal is to have them all on a shelf together but
I probably won't find the Maxi X-wing for a price I want to pay

(anybody have a spare X wing they want to sell?)

 

[Donaldsrockets]

Originally posted by stymye

I'm halfway thru building the Pershing now

A what???

Nice kit, where did you manage to stumble across that??? But then again, you probably paid some major a** $$$ for it.

I'd love to get a Pershing but the Launch Pad one really doesn't appeal to me.

 

[Stymye]

I can't afford the real thing

it's a clone using the Ed Miller cone
I can't find the link right now but it's , Alien Enterprises
he sells the fins also ,,but I decided to make my own

it's a very nice cone but much heavier than the original
so I built it for a 29mm

 

[Jacques]

The rest of the new releases are now up on the Estes website ... except for what most people believe to be "Spaceship One"! Does anybody know what's going on?

 

[wyldbill]

Originally posted by Jacques
... no longer listed, neither is the C11-0!

I started that other thread and took a beating for it. I noticed it was missing from the old Estes site and a few different vendors have listed them a "discontinued" (though this doesn't neccesarily mean by Estes). A call to Estes got the reply "it's in the catalog". We'll see...