You guys seen this? I just ordered one - can't go wrong for $6.00!


Clone Kit of the Month Club
Now get new release BMS Clone kits at 50% off retail
BRAND NEW FOR 2008 - CLONE OF THE MONTH CLUB!

For years, I have thought of doing a "Clone Kit of the Month club" and as a New Years resolution this year, I decided to finally do it!

This will not, however, work like the traditional "book of the month clubs" where if you subscribe you will automatically receive your book unless you take some action to refuse it. With this club, you will receive nothing unless you click the "buy" button. Nothing will be mailed to you automatically. On the contrary, if you are not interested in the monthly offering, just ignore the offer. Maybe next month's offer will be to you liking.

Although in general "Clone of the Month kits" will be available as standard BMS clone kits, in the future, the very special pricing will only apply for one week after this email. Pricing will typically be 50% off the normal retail price. We can offer this low price because the production run will not be scheduled until all orders have been received. Kit production costs are all about quantity & scheduling. You will receive your kit approximately three weeks after you place your on-line order.

You can expect a faithful re-production of the original kit using modern materials with the following exceptions:

All fins & tubes will be precision laser cut.

All kits that originally had decals will come with Water slide decals matching the originals.

If Instructions are not supplied a URL pointing to the appropriate website where the instructions can be found will be given.

Unlike standard BMS clone kits "clone of the month" kits will not be supplied with a parachute. This helps keep costs down and virtually no one in the target audience for these kits needs yet another "assembly required" plastic parachute! You can always, of course, order a chute to go with the kit if you want as a separate item from our website.



This Months "Clone of the Month" is the old "FSI VIKING 1"

It is a "tube fin" stabilized Rocket built around a heavy wall BT50 tube (BT50H).

Comes with water slide decals!

Originally supplied with 12" plastic parachute. Parachutes, as always, are omitted from "Clone of The Month Kits"

Click here to order FSI Viking 1


Rmember your clone kit will arrive approximately 3 weeks after you place your order. Please do not hesitate to call if you have any questions at all.

Also feel free to forward and/or post this email so that others not on our initial mailing list may join.


Sincerely,


William Saindon
Balsa Machining Service
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Sounds interesting and is priced RIGHT too, even if it is 'chute-less.

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I hope these kits will be tested for stability. IIRC the original had a pine or birch nose cone that weighed quite a bit more than balsa wood. Also , the original had 21mm motors, so I assume this is a larger tube (Bt-50) and will have an 18mm motor mount tube? Or will it be designed for 24mm motors?

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Stability testing ?!?!?
What's that ?????

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

Interesting . . . I made a Viking II clone from the same 24mm tubing. Very sturdy and stable, but it *did* have a heavy hardwood cone.

I built a Viking I last year using Semroc parts and a balsa nose cone. I used ST-8F for the airframe and tube fins, and installed an 18mm mount. It appears to be stable with A-C motors. The long airframe length (16") helps with the stability. I haven't flown it yet to verify that, though. A 24mm upscale very well might need a tiny bit of nose weight (or a hardwood nose cone). The design is so sleek that I would be reluctant to fly my 18mm version on anything larger than a B6. I would think that if you upscaled it slightly to accomodate 24mm motors, and you put in anything larger than a C-11, then the first flight could very well be the last.

Building clones of the Viking I and several other FSI models was discussed in a thread last Spring:

http://forums.rocketshoppe.com/showthread.php?t=1612

Mark

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