Estes website down?

The Estes website is a hideous, terrible, crappy place to go. Nothing to see there anyhow. We can only hope it is down because they are changing it. As for the copter recovery rocket, try an Estes Skywinder. It just went OOP this year, so you should still be able to find one.

There's one here:

-- Joe Michel NAR 82797 L1

for several days, and it appears to be down. Anyone know what is going on?

I wonder if the "Skywinder" uses compatible parts?

It seems to be a current, (or at least recently-produced) helicopter recovery kit from Estes...

-dave w

Can I quote you on that? :)

The SkyWinder OOP?? Oh Nooooooooooo !!!!!

IIRC, the Cosmic Cobra is pretty much the same thing as the Hyper-X.

for several days, and it appears to be down. Anyone know what is going on?

Yes ;-)

-- Joe Michel NAR 82797 L1

I can't be for 100% sure, but it is not in the 2003 catalog. Does anyone know?

-- Joe Michel NAR 82797 L1

Man, you are EXACTLY right! Thanks!

Stop beating around the bush and tell us what you really think! ; ) Randy

here are some other nosecone rotor recovery models:

the Estes Cosmic Cobra from Red Arrow Hobbies at

or from A2Z Hobbies at and the Hyper X RTF (nosecone rotors) or Skywinder (rotors unfold from body) at the out of production Estes Helicat can still be purchased from Commonwealth Displays at frame, click "Out of Production", then scroll to the bottom

speaking of helicopter recovery, check out the movie of a J powered helicopter recovered rocket on the Max Thrust website

at

way kewl! :)

BTW, there is an interesting Apogee report on "Calculating the Rate of Descent of a Helocopter Duration Model" at

- iz

David We> David wrote:

You mean they've improved it?

:-)

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