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Old 06-07-2019, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by blackshire
There is another possibility, which Quest pioneered. Their largest kits were (and are) designed to use large single-use and reloadable composite motors that they themselves do not produce (and this was ^before^--if memory serves--they merged with Aerotech as part of the overarching company whose three-letter initials [R-something] appear on Quest order invoices). Estes need not produce any motors--black powder, double-base, or composite propellant--that are more powerful than their E motors. An Estes Super Scale Saturn I, Saturn IB, or Saturn V kit could be designed to use other companies' higher-than-E total impulse motors (such kits could also, depending on their size and weight, use clustered E and/or D motors, just as the 1:100 scale Saturn V kit can use either one D12 or a cluster of three C6 motors).


Estes has only done that once with the re-labeled AeroTech motors. It does not appeared to have been successful.

I can't see the new management of Estes manufacturing any kits that do not fly with THIER motors. After all, the money is in the motor sales.
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