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Yes, indeed. A unique, now hard to find kit. Yep, a 29mm motor-mount to boot as well. The physically largest X-wing model rocket kit there ever was. Quote:
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There is no metal spike in NCR X-wing's nose cone. The entire body, including the nose cone, is made from vacuformed plastic. What ballast one puts inside the nose cone, is entirely up to the flyer: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...1g2eC1rU01kU093 As to lone-darting, rear ejection brings its own set of unfortunate challenges. One can build the NCR X-wing to rely on either rear, or the traditional nose-cone ejection approach. a
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I used to do that with a little Vienna weenie can and regular firecrackers.
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I keep telling Mom that despite my hell-raising reputation, I really made things easy on them growing up. Only one late-night phone call from the police station, and that was enough to curb my enthusiasm for run-ins with the constabulary. I was no angel, but nor was I some kind of dynamite wielding psycho.
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NEVER had a run-in with the "Constabulary" during childhood nor college.
My younger (and only) brother on the other hand was a different story. Not that he did ANY more "Hell Raising" than I ever did; I just knew how to do it and ALWAYS get away with it ! He did not, nor would he listen to me. Actually to this day among most of my classmates from high school I have a "Stellar" reputation for being "clean" by everyone except my closest friends. Some of the pranks I pulled my Senior year of high school are still legendary. I actually told someone 20 years later that used to work at my high school as one of the secretaries/aides who was behind a bunch of pranks that nobody got caught for. Her response was "It was YOU ??? NOBODY would have ever suspected that" I responded with "I STILL know that !" 😅
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I almost got caught with "contraband" one day during my sophomore year however.
A guy in high school I knew kept me supplied with genuine Silver Salutes and M100s for $1 each. Keep in mind this was in the mid-80s and had already been banned by the CPSC for 20 years. I had just taken possession of a bag of 25 of those gems prior to a pep-rally in the gym at the end of the school day. Some toolshed dropped a lit string of at least 100 Black Cat firecrackers down below the bleachers causing mass mayhem. I had the bag of Silver Salutes in my coat pocket. Anyone even close to being a "troublemaker/hooligan" was searched before exiting the gym. Thankfully I wasn't even given a second look passing outside. For a minute I was "sweating bullets". I only lived about 2.5mi away from the High School and just to be SAFE I walked home with my "goodie bag". I ran into my contact "Brett" the next day and he asked me if I had them when that went down. I told him "yeah, but they didn't check me.". I would have been in DEEP MANURE if they had. The clown that did the firecracker deed got "tuned up" by several of those other hooligans that got caught with "smokable contraband" during the search. Mucho Marijuana and Tobacco got seized along with several receiving suspensions. The firecracker bomber did not get caught as he had nothing else on him and he must have ditched his bic lighter. Several of those that got busted in the search had their suspensions overturned including the son of an attorney. He represented 5 of his friends and threatened to sue over illegal search/seizure due to no probable cause. The city and school decided the small amounts of marijuana was not worth chancing that as he had a real reputation of WINNING in court. When I heard about that, my immediate reaction was YEAHHHHHHHH. Now my state allows up to 10 ounces of Marijuana bud/flower for recreational purposes per adult, which still amazes me. Not federally legal, but not prosecuted either. This stuff is primo 20 to 27% THC stuff in genetically raised strains, not the 5% "ditchweed":that was around when I was a teen.
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My understanding as well that they are the same size with the NCRBE having some heavier-duty parts.
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Can confirm. I built the NCR kit many years ago, and have a copy of the Estes Maxi Brute kit on my workbench right now. The injection molded parts are identical in both the NCR and Estes version. The shape of the blow-molded fuselage in the Maxi Brute is closer to the filming miniatures than the vacuform parts in the NCR kit. Some believe that Estes had access to parts scavenged from an ILM pyro model when developing the original model back in the 70s. If you're interested, this thread provides some fascinating background: https://www.therpf.com/forums/threa...xi-brute.73828/ James |
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