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Monday, March 31, 2025

Estes Advanced Target Drone, Kit #1913, Build, Part 2, Redrawing The Cardstock Intake

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  Here's the scan of the intakes from the Jim Z's website: CLICK HERE I appreciate the patterns, but sometimes the scans are a bit r...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Estes Advanced Target Drone, Kit #1913, Build, Part 1, Parts

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This will be a spare parts build. Clockwise from left to right: BT-50H (Heavy wall tube) 11" long Apogee PNC-24C (a bit shorter than th...
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Friday, March 28, 2025

Estes Advanced Target Drone, Kit #1913, Clone Build Background

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The epoxy fillets on the Mega Initiator will take some time, I'll get back to that build soon - Introduced in the 1983 catalog is the AD...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Builds On Display!

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While the epoxy dries on the Mega Initiators - Around a year and a half back, I donated ten display builds to Colonial Hobby in Orlando, ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Aerotech Mega Initiator #89541, Part 11, Gluing In The Engine Mount

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Test fit, test fit, test fit -  before gluing on the centering rings. The mount is slid into the airframe tube and the fin tabs slipped into...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Aerotech Mega Initiator #89541, Part 10, Final Fin Fill & Dry Fits

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The fins on the flight version were left square. That inside leading edge angle still wouldn't match up. I added some CWF for a better f...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Aerotech Mega Initiator #89541, Part 9, Assembling The Engine Mount Adapters

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In the last post, I did some dry fits until the rings were tight on the tube, but still moveable. Here I'm using the flat face of my san...