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Old 08-31-2017, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by rocketguy101
The Estes ARCAS kit was used to produce the original Cherokee-D -- I found these discussions about the nose:

http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot...art-5-nose.html

http://www.rocketryforum.com/showth...okee-X-nosecone

I always thought is was a secant ogive but according to Carl in the TRF thread it wasn't quite that either...


You know, I should have responded to this earlier... I'll chalk up the delay to being sick (food poisoning), and fatigue following a really bad weekend (I work weekends).

I honestly didn't know that the BNC/PNC-55AC was based on this design.

Thanks for the info!
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