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Old 01-08-2019, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by stefanj
Regarding those advertised kits:

AVI was notorious for vaporware. They published catalogs and a newsletter promising stuff that never materialized.

So, I wouldn't count on ever seeing any of those kits. I'm not even sure about the P-Chuter.

This isn't to say that they didn't deliver items in stock. And they did make a few of their own promised kits; the "Lineaus Gigantus" comes to mind.

Mostly, they sold old MPC and MRI stock. Some MRI kits were re-introduced with B&W instruction sheets.

The big black powder motors were not vaporware; I bought and flew several of those.
That is good--if not happy--to know. At least they were shown and described well enough that at least "forensic clones" of them (with fin patterns constructed from the photographs) should be possible (the ones with all-plastic parts--such as the Mini-Hawk and Nike-Tomahawk--would, of course, be easier to replicate). Speaking of motors, somewhere here on YORF there is a thread that--if memory serves--mentioned AVI motors with glued-in, selectable delay/ejection charge modules, which the NAR gave a thumbs-down.
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