Friday, July 4, 2025

Estes Mini Bomarc Clone, Kit #TK-5, Background

Here's a post from 2017 that sets up the next clone build, The Estes Mini Bomarc. 
It also presents some double duty with the Bomarc balsa sheet being used for the Firefly parasite glider kit.

On his Blast From The Past blog (CLICK HERE), Edward Mitton did a post about the OOP Estes Firefly Parasite glider. That got me to thinking about something I realized about the two kits.



The Estes Mini Bomarc (TK-5) was introduced in 1972 and stayed in production until 1980.

This was part of the newer Mini-Brute line of "T" engine rockets.
To see the instructions at Jim Z's: CLICK HERE
The Estes Firefly was a parasite glider, available from 1976 until 1980. It rode on the side of one your rockets and glided back after ejection.
To check out the instructions: CLICK HERE

Do you notice any similarity between the two kit wings?

TRIVIA: The first, original (large) Citation Bomarc (#0567) was a pop-pod boost glider. Estes later produced the Citation style Bomarc but dropped the pop pod and used a parachute. The Mini Bomarc had parachute recovery.

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