I've been trying to get to the Estes website at
Oh, the reason I am looking, is that I damaged my son's favorite rocket, a Hyper-X. It has the 3-rotor helicopter recovery nosecone. I can't find that model any more, so I am trying to find a similar copter recovery rocket. If you know of one, please speak up!
-- David
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
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.
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
speaking of helicopter recovery, check out the movie of a J powered helicopter recovered rocket on the Max Thrust website
at
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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