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How am I supposed to know? I've never met her.So how's Kaley doing these days?
How am I supposed to know? I've never met her.So how's Kaley doing these days?
How am I supposed to know? I've never met her.
Canaroc | Nomad (54010, GK-11) [1978-1982] | |
Centuri | Nomad (5035, KB-5) [1973-1981] | |
Custom Rockets | Nomad (10054) | |
Estes | Nomad (1344) [1980-1982] | |
FlisKits | Nomad | |
Semroc | Nomad (KV-76) |
From a marketing viewpoint a glitzy face card and cool name would be more likely to add to sales revenue.
Of course, first of all the design must be appealing.
Why recycle names and add to the confusion when there are monikers that haven't been used?
Just need to be more creative.
I still haven't seen an Estes Scorcher, Fireball, or Hypersonic yet.
I didn't realize those Land Rockets were cold powered.Estes used "Scorcher" for one of the Land Rocket kits.
I didn't realize those Land Rockets were cold powered.
Would be tough to bring those back.
Maybe convert them to mini engine power like the Blurzz dragsters?
There are other ozone friendly propellant alternatives. If I won the lottery I'd sink a lot of money into cold propellant models for those of us who have burn bans for nearly half the year.
OK, I'm ready.
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Seems to me there someone was having some success a few years ago with an old Vashon Valkyrie flying on modern airbrush propellant or A/C refrigerant, something like that. Was that Dr. Zooch?
It would really be fun to get this going again.
It isn't even summer yet and we have burn bans in and days of 38C (100.4F) at least once a week. Coldpower stuff would literally scream in ambient temps like that.
Water rockets. Or water rocket cars.
343.5 kph translates to 213.4 mph in 2.3 seconds.
As I've mentioned a couple of times before, I had a Valkyrie-2 when I was a kid....and lost it on a summer day in Santa Fe, New Mexico because it outflew the park I was in....It isn't even summer yet and we have burn bans in and days of 38C (100.4F) at least once a week. Coldpower stuff would literally scream in ambient temps like that.
We may need to start a new thread for this, but this just occurred to me.
It would be pretty easy to make new forward and aft closures for a 29mm or 38mm A-tech style reload casings that would incorporate the necessary filling valve, vent valves and nozzle assemblies. Of course we would need to find O-rings that are appropriate to the temps involved, but those would be easily available from just about any industrial supply house.
I also know of a case of same rocket, two names. #1991 is called Zipper (bad name in my opinion - maybe why it was changed) in 1989 and Blue Streak thereafter.
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