The Orange Bullet is small with tumble/featherweight recovery. Enlarge the picture and you can see the weights on the fin tips, just like the 1960 original. I didn't know it was "Vern Estes first design". The Orange Bullet is mentioned: CLICK HERE
This 1960 catalog says to use rubber bands around an engine for a friction fit.
There have been questions on the SideKick model. It is two parallel BT-20 tubes, a two engine 18mm cluster with dual streamer recovery.
I just heard from Estes, they are sending me the LOW Boom SST to build! I've already built the LEO Space Train, Corvette Class and Side Kick models. All will be featured on the blog when the kits are released.
I’m a little surprised at the Side Kick, it’s been a long time since Estes offered cluster powered rocket - plenty of staged rockets but no clusters until now. Are the two tubes connected so they share both ejection charges?
ReplyDeleteHi Openroad,
DeleteThe tubes and ejections are separate, they don't join into one tube. The tubes are held together by some "figure 8" rings.