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Old 02-29-2008, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by micromeister
Conversion to a 3 motor 18mm cluster isn't that difficult and flys like a bat outa you know where! I've worn out 4 or 5 of the Estes SR-71s over the years. It was important to devise a way to vent the outboards into the core as one of the earlier models failed to ignite the core motor while the two outborad booster -0 motors went. Great...Wonderful high flight.... very very bad ballistic landing
Since then All the SR's have been very nice flyers.

John,

You converted it to staged airstart cluster? (I'm not sure if I'm saying that right, but I can see what it is that you did.) Ambitious!! Yeah, I'll bet it soars with that setup! (When the core does light, of course.)

That's some pretty neat engineering, micromeister.

Mark
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