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Old 03-17-2018, 12:43 AM
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The “countdown clock” was for when you could pre-order them....two weeks ago now. Notice it’s counting up...
That sounds more like a "scolding clock" or a "rubbing it in clock" (like when Yakov Smirnoff mentioned that when he had just emigrated here, he saw a newspaper ad that said "Big Sale--Last Week!", and thought it was "rubbing it in" to people who had missed the previous week's sale...). :-)
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Originally Posted by BEC
As I recall from the other info on these motors (at NARCON), the propellant is the the black smoke formula (not called black jack anymore but at the moment I can’t remember what it IS called).
Yes, this listing (see: http://www.questaerospace.com/2-Pac...5_18338149.aspx ) says that it's called Black Max propellant; since the "thrust smoke" is black, maybe the delay tracking smoke is even more conspicuous against the sky.
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