Ordered one last night when the model was available on the website.

Received an order number and e-mail.

Credit card charge is 'Pending'.


Bob

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Bob
S.A.M. # 0014

Maybe we should hire an airplane?


https://www.foxnews.com/auto/a-myst...superfan-did-it

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-Fred Shecter NAR 20117 (L2)
Southern California Rocket Association, NAR Section 430

According to John Boren on the NAR Facebook page Estes had a number of the plastic parts sets air freighted to Penrose - there’s a picture floating around of Estes employees filling the kit boxes - so they could send out the 500 kits they promised to their distributors. They put the leftover kits (above the 500) on the Estes website which were sold out very quickly. By January their normal supply chain process will kick in and according to John “there will be plenty of Saturns to go around”.

IIRC the 2157 Saturn was readily available for at least a couple years hopefully it’ll be the same for the 1969 version.

I think the pent-up demand for the new Saturn will keep it around for quite awhile. On the FB rocketry groups, lots of people have bemoaned the discontinuance of the #2157, not realizing it had come back several times. I am building the 30th anniversary #2157, and I have several more recent reissues.

Now that people are learning that there are new plastic parts, and a bonus LM kit in this latest #1969 kit, it should have a very successsful, and hopefully long, run.

I first met Ellis Langford at NSL, then again at NARAM, and on the Estes Tour during NARAM. I’ve heard him talk about hopes for the company’s directions, and I don’t think I am the only one to get a sense that he wants scale kits like the Saturn V to stay around as one of their flagship offerings.

I’m really hoping for a reissue of the 1:100 Saturn 1B. I built one last year, it just needs paint. I didn’t sell any of my Saturn V #2157 kits, or my #2001 kit, when the #1969 plans were revealed. But I might be tempted to sell a couple of my Saturn 1Bs if it looks promising that a reissue is coming, especially if those 8 tiny vacuformed fins get replaced with injection molded ones.

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Lee Reep
NAR 55948

Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Ken Foss Designs Mini Satellite Interceptor
In the Paint Shop: Nothing! Too cold!
Launch-Ready: Farside-X, Maxi Honest John, Super Scamp

Glad to see this but I have to say that both Uncle Mike and I have better looking elves.




Randy
http://www.vernarockets.com
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HHJHOK6
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O14ET8K
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CX1UPCG
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C95BNQH

The point is more in proving handling of the more powerful motor than of the total power itself. Clustering can be done in cert flights, and it has been done with Saturn V models (though a really big one). But the cert was based on the largest motor in the cluster (a K) and not the total power (which was L-ish).

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Roy
nar12605

My Saturn V model has shipped!

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Bob
S.A.M. # 0014

Congratulations!

I hope you’ll do an unboxing and a “show and tell” of all those new parts!

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Lee Reep
NAR 55948

Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Ken Foss Designs Mini Satellite Interceptor
In the Paint Shop: Nothing! Too cold!
Launch-Ready: Farside-X, Maxi Honest John, Super Scamp

Here’s another vote for some unboxing pix - until they’re in stock at AC Supply I’ll need some vicarious Saturn V thrills...

Dang I missed it at Estes and Jon’s and I have been checking every day

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