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Old 12-14-2019, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by BARGeezer
I just built one last night. I believe it's a Magician with the payload section, nose cone, and transition removed and replaced with a BT-55 nose cone.
Many of the Hobby Lobby "exclusives" are Estes kits with minor changes:
Luna Bug and Mosquito
ESAM-58 and Sasha
Solo and Double Ringer
Vapor and Star Orbiter
Epic II and Sterling Silver
This minimizes developmental costs for Estes while retaining HL as a customer with "exclusive" kits only available from them.


I compared the instructions for the Estes Magician and Cherokee-E and it appears that you are correct. Attached is the RockSim flight simulation file I created for the Estes Magician #2440. This file does not contain pods so it can be opened with Open Rocket software.
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