Estes Citation Patriot, #000652 Build, Part 1, Parts

Big and Burly. The parts are standard and of good quality.

Parts of interest:
The big PNC-60AH black plastic nose cone.
Two very short launch lugs
Gold and black decal sheet (more of this in the next post)
Red and blue stars and bars decals (the red bars are the original kit length. They were shortened in later kit runs)


There is some minor differences between the original and re-issue kit construction:
FIN SHAPING
OLD: Leading and Trailing edges are rounded, root and outside edges are left square
NEW: Just the leading edge is rounded

LAUNCH LUGS
OLD: Small rear lug is even with the end of the body tube.
NEW: Small rear lug is 3/8" above low end of the body tube.
Front lugs are 4" from the top of the body tube in both kits.

CENTERING RINGS
OLD: Rear Centering Ring is 3/4" from the end of motor mount tube.
NEW: Rear Centering Ring is 3/8" from the end of motor mount tube.

OLD: Front Centering Ring is 1/8" from the end of motor mount tube.
NEW: Rear Centering Ring almost even with the end of motor mount tube.

ENGINE MOUNT STUFFER TUBE
OLD: BT-20B is 8.65" long - NEW: Engine Mount Tube, #030323 is 7 3/4" long