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Centuri DOM Psudo X-Wing Fighter
Centuri DOM Psudo X-Wing Fighter.
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...igncontest.html Centuri combined three different DOM's(Three DOM Winners) to make this rocket. One winner was from Sharon, MA. I wonder if any of the winners still fly rockets? Anyone try this one?
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I remember getting this issue.....it was before I had even seen the movie at the time (I don't think we kids saw it till late the year of '77......like maybe November).
This was before Estes had released their Star Wars kits, so I thought this design not a bad 'take' on the X-Wing at the time. Never took a stab at this one myself though. Earl
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Better open some windows
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Hey Buddy, Better open some windows, the fumes are starting to make you hallucinate! BTW, Why fly when you can teleport the bomb instead?
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This was my first Centuri catalog. I hadn't seen the movie at this point, and wouldn't until some neighbors took us for helping push their car up the hill and dig out a parking place after one of early 1978's frequent snowstorms. Yeah, as usual, I was WAY behind the curve. Always thought the Centuri DOM X-Wing design was cool, to the point that the Estes version really didn't strike me as "quite right" when I saw it. I was just thinking about it again last week, wondering if it was time to actually try building it for my nephew.
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Duh. Teleportation shields on high value targets.
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Uhm... I'm gonna show my Trek Nerdiness level here (I WAS one of the main design team for FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, so I guess I'm qualified ), but why would you need to build a nuclear warhead into a ship that has matter/antimatter reaction for the drive - If you were to shunt all the anitmatter into the matter (or just release the magnetic bottle, for that matter), the resulting explosion would be orders of magnitude above any thermonuclear reaction. Just sayin' Greg |
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Yeah, especially since a nuclear explosion =~2% matter to energy conversion efficiency, and an antimatter reaction = 100% matter to energy conversion... Later! OL JR
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