06-07-2019, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
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.  |
With most kits, yes. But for large, more expensive (and intricate/higher skill level), and lower-unit-sales kits such as a large-scale Saturn IB or Saturn V, designing such a kit for use with other companies' larger motors wouldn't be a rash thing to do. Such large models wouldn't be produced and sold in large numbers (nothing like the Viking, Wizard, Alpha III, etc.), and they might be made and sold in limited quantities only every two to five years or so. Also:
I don't doubt Quest's attempt to develop higher-impulse motors for their larger kits (as your posted picture shows; I particularly remember that big "off-size" D motor that they listed for a time [I don't know if one could have actually bought any, as I never tried to order one]), but they haven't let the non-availability of high-impulse Quest motors kill off their line of big D/E/F motor-powered "Advanced Rocketry Kits," as they're still selling them (see: http://www.questaerospace.com/Advan...06_3443197.aspx ). I know that they can now offer such high-impulse Aerotech motors with those large kits, now that Quest and Aerotech are both part of RCS, but that wasn't always the case. |