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Garth Illibrun let us know of the Apogee video on the Estes Model Rocket Facebook page.
On the left is John Langford of Estes Industries.
Good to hear that they will be expanding the PSII line with more kits. Don't have any high hopes for a 1/45 Sat 1B: some quick number crunching yields a 6" dia. main tube and over 55" long! Estes doesn't have any motors to fly that unless they cluster 4 29mm BP motors. Then there's the question of igniting that with their "starters".
ReplyDeleteThough I'm sure there are some builders out there using the 1/45 LJ II Apollo capsule to make their own Sat 1bs and Vs using composite motors. Cheers.
Hi BAR,
DeleteYeah, that 1/45 Saturn 1B probably won't happen - too big and expensive! The 1/100 (Centuri style) Saturn 1B will happen though!
From the discussions I’ve followed about the improvements made to the #1969 Saturn V kit it seemed that Estes had the 1b model in mind. Very curious to see if the molded plastic N-1 companion to the 1/200 Saturn V ever happens!
DeleteA 1/45 Saturn 1B would make me sprain my arm, I'd be getting my wallet out so fast. A 1/100 version would be great too. I need the motivation to finish my Semroc one. Been looking at John Pursley's fins and other detail parts. I may go that way, since I wrapped the whole thing with some highly detailed wraps I found online and had Mark at Stickershock make up for me.
DeleteI watched the video last night. Wow, John Langford sure has a lot of desire to offer a whole bunch of exciting new rockets, as well as being interested in what we want to see! Time to start selling off some extras I have, like two Estes 1:100 Saturn 1Bs. :-)
DeleteAnd I sure hope they do the N-1 companion for 1:200 Saturn V.