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It was just defending the performance of the C6, and that if I would give him the address of the person whose rocket was destroyed, he would make it right. I'm pretty sure I still have it, but currently, with my stuff still over four different places, I haven't seen it in many years. The main thing was that it was overnighted to me, which was a big surprise. I still have the original article, but it's on an Aldus Pagemaker file from 1989 or 1990 -- who knew the problem wouldn't be the magnetic media, but no way to run the original program to read the file!
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Frank Ritota. He's now president of MRC.
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Now I really want to fly an MRC Trailblazer on an MRC C6-3. |
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You sure it was Frank? There wasn't anyone named Fred there? I really need to scan all these things when I get the hardcopies agaon...
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I bought a couple MRC packs of B6-4's in the late 80's or early 90's. I thought they were weak just from eyeballing the flight profile of a few of my old reliable models. They had a somewhat yellowish/brownish exhaust and the ejection was dirtier than Estes motors. I don't recall if the color was in the thrust, the delay, or both. They also had a very obviously smaller diameter above the ejection cap. Without digging out the old expended cases, I seem to recall their case walls were thinner than Estes motors.
I can see the advantage of MRC importing motors for retail and starter sets. I wouldn't think it would be a good idea to set up and manufacture their own to try go compete with Estes.
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Some folks still have Pagemaker on XP machines (probably newer Adobe owned versions). Maybe you could reach out and see if anyone will open your files and "print" to a PDF file.
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yep, smaller OD (which is why MRC, and later Quest, could just stick their own labels on them and they'd still fit. I once saw photographs of one of their machines. It was very pretty, shiny metal and powder-coated blue structure in a gleaming white room... obviously before they started using it! Since their background was mainly in fireworks, they probably didn't care as much about how 'dirty' their BP burned
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Yes, Frank. Saw him at several trade shows. Always reminded me of an 'extra' in a Mob film.
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When I read that name, it came out in my head as Ray Liotta.
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