06-07-2019, 11:10 AM
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SPEV/Orion wrangler
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 2,645
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Originally Posted by Crimsonvelvetflame
Since Estes has discontinued their Saturn IV-B. Why not a Super Scale Saturn IV-B, based on the current 24mm E motor powered Estes Apollo Little Joe II O.D. 3.42"tube, capsule, escape tower, etc.? 38mm motor powered, or clustering 29mm motors and should produce a lot of smoke and fire. I still dare to dream.
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Um, They did that back in 1993 (there's a photo somewhere of Mary Roberts at a trade show standing next to it). I think they made two prototypes. They flew (and crashed) one at NARAM in 1994. The other one I saw in John Boren's lab at Estes (you can see part of it in the 2019 catalog scale centerfold).
I think had they continued with the Dark Star motors, we would have seen it in production in 1999 or so. The only way they would produce it now is if they had their own G motor. Since Ellis Langford has implied that Estes will stick to black powder, I don't think that will ever happen. But who knows?
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