Were there any other Estes kits that used the red pods (cannons) that go on the tip cord of the Trajector's fins? Or are these completely unique to the Trajector?

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-Wolfram v. Kiparski
NAR 28643 - TRA 15520
MTMA Section #606 President

I can't think of any personally, but I'll leave it to the historians to answer more definitively. That said, I don't like them much.

Recently I've been perusing John Pursley's vinyl skins, and came across this new one that shows the Trajector built without the pods: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Estes-Traje...AAOSwt5hYcYp k

Now that looks mighty fine.

It does look mighty fine. I just acquired a Trajector and a set of John's "NASA skins." I was going to take his recommendation to leave the pods off.

So....what to do with the pods?

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-Wolfram v. Kiparski
NAR 28643 - TRA 15520
MTMA Section #606 President

Ah, in that case you're one step ahead of me. I'm planning to get a Trajector with the NASA skin but was hoping to also get a Cosmic Interceptor which is now out of stock.

Please post your experience with the NASA skin!

As for the pods... I suppose you could work them into some sort of scratch build. As I said, I'm not too fond of them so I'd probably just throw them in the old spare parts bin.

Yes, they are only used on the Trajector kit.



John Boren

I flipped mine around on Trajector Number 1 - and of course one broke partially off on first flight! Think I'll stick to the stock configuration for Trajector Number 2, though I may paint them - red maybe, I don't really dig the orange. Regardless, great rocket that flew perfect on an E16-6. With the size of my local launch site I don't really want to go much higher than a BP E16 will push it.