What is this from?

[mikeyd]

I found a paper sack stashed away in my junk pile, and when I dumped it out, it had some old nose cones in it. One was an original Goony-bird two piece nose cone, and another one I do not recall. Anyone remember what the nose cone in the first picture is from, it fits a BT-55? Opps, I just compared the BT60 cone, to my original Cloud Hopper, and it is not the same, it has a "triangular" shock cord mount, not a "flat" one. Any one know what it is from?

Thanks
Mike

 

[judo]

Looks like a Mercury capsule.

 

[mikeyd]

The angle is more like an Apollo capsule, but I do not recall Estes, or Centuri, ever making any scale manned rockets in BT-55.

 

[Micromeister]

Mike:
the transition is from an Estes Nike-Apache kit BT-55 to BT-5 if memory services. Same on I used in my Phantom Nike-Apache.
Not sure about the Nosecones.

 

[shreadvector]

Clue: the top is a BT-5 shoulder, so the rocket had a BT-5 upper portion.

now, start looking though old catalogs (online) for sounding rockets that fit the BT-55 to BT-5 formula.

 

[shreadvector]

Oh look, I found it in 3 clicks.

https://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/nostalgia/88est046.html

 

[rokitflite]

Oh look, I found it in 3 clicks.

https://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/nostalgia/88est046.html

Or you could have read previous posts with no clicks.

 

[shreadvector]

Or you could have read previous posts with no clicks.

They were not there yet. Passing each other on the web....

 

[mikeyd]

Thanks Guys! Looks like I an going to build a Nike Apache, I don't have one of those in my collection yet.

 

[Der Red Max]

Or you could have read previous posts with no clicks.

LOL, that's what I was thinking!
The refresh button is your friend.

 

[shreadvector]

LOL, that's what I was thinking!
The refresh button is your friend.

Can't refresh when you are in the middle of typing a response.

 

[H_Rocket]

You can, but then your response is lost.

 

[Der Red Max]

Yes, you're right, but you can in between two responses!

 

[mikeyd]

Thats what I like about this group, I do not have to do the hard work, someone else will do it for me, then give me the links. Of course, they will tell me I should have looked first!

 

[Bravo52]

Hey, that looks like a cone from an Estes Nike-Apache........ What? What'd I miss.......