Largest Upscale Trident

[les]

Anyone have info on the largest Estes Trident Upscale?

And did the upscale still use the ducted ejection?

Thanks - Les

 

[Oldschool77]

The largest "kit" that was available was the Hawks Hobby, now OOP. 3x? upscale, 24mm mnt, used 2 of 3 tubes for ducting. I picked up parts for a build thru Semroc (now erocket). Later found out Semroc had supplied parts to HH, erockets should still carry them.
As for larger than the HH version I don't know of any scratch builds.
Edit went to RocketReview. It used St16 (bt60ish) tubing, 41" tall.

 

[Charles_McG]

US Rockets has one currently that looks to be bigger than the Hawks.

Build thread is over on YORF.

 

[les]

US Rockets has one currently that looks to be bigger than the Hawks.

Build thread is over on YORF.

Ironic - that is my thread on YORF.... There is also a thread here on TRF where the build is mixed in with 2 other rockets)
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...rockets-trident-k-s-orion-starfighter.150133/

And you can see the difference in sizes below:
Small - Estes/Semroc clone (before they offered the kit)
Medium - Hawk's Hobby (based on the BT50 vs BT60 main tube, about a 1.68x)
Large - US Rockets (which is about a 2.25x)



I thought once long ago I saw someone had scratch built something even bigger, but a search on both TRF and YORF didn't show anything. Maybe it was back in the old Rocketry Planet days...
Or - my mind is making things up....

 

[JDcluster]

About 20 years ago someone did a 4" version. Scratch built not a kit.
They used electronics for recovery no ducted ejection.

 

[kuririn]

US Rockets has one currently that looks to be bigger than the Hawks.

Build thread is over on YORF.

Here's the link to the build thread that Charles mentioned:
https://www.forums.rocketshoppe.com/showthread.php?t=17675&page=12&pp=10
Post #108 has a pic of all three Tridents (Estes, HH, and USR).
The USR kit is just under 74" in length.
Jerry Irvine has stated that he wanted to use stock parts so don't expect a true scale clone.
The build was a beta, the kit just went up on the USR website:https://v-serv.com/usr/kits/trident_2.25.htm
I'm tempted, but don't have that kind of moolah right now.
And from prior experience I now tend to stay away from first runs of anything: cars, model rockets, whatever.
Cheers.