12-22-2020, 05:23 PM
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Flying since 1977
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Middle TN
Posts: 455
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rraeford
I just opened a Patriot kit to build. Man, that kit has some barn door-sized fins! Doubling the size and they’d be huge!
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If I was going to try to upscale a Citation Patriot to 3" (or bigger), I would reduce the size of the fins a bit. When Estes produced the Super Vega, the main fins are huge, and the Vega was only upscaled by about 1.6 times.
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Mike Toelle
NAR 31692 L1
SAM 0373
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