Re: can you ID this rocket?

Oct 18, 2003 3 Replies

"MikeT" wrote in news:fsbkb.817391$uu5.143917@sccrnsc04:



It sounds like the Super vega to me. I cloned one last year, and it's one of the best rockets in my collection.



Here is a link to the 1990 catalog with a picture. Is this it?



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Tim Reidy San Antonio Rocket Society


about 6 years ago I bought a dusty large kit from the local hobbytown.



I never finished the kit.
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> I now have the assembled tube, cone, motormount and most of the fins
> but am missing few parts that I will be manufacturing today for a 8:AM
> flight tomorrow. - nothing like waiting til the last minute.
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> the rocket is 37" assembled. chute recovery,
> BT-60 for the main tube (two sections connected)
> two lugs
> two areas of fins.
> lower tail fins are massive.
> 3 large fins each with a notch to mount a section of BT-50 with a
> dowel and card foot. kind of like the "mars snooper-II" I think it is
> in the same family but I cannot find an image of it.
> between these are three small fins. looking from the engine eng you > see 6 fins.
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> in the center of the rocket there is another fin area - three small > fins.
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> recovery is parachute.
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> I will post a followup photo and this message to
> alt.binaries.models.rockets
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> -miket
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That is it! Thanks to both posters! I can now track down plans I hope.

I just repaired a flopped over top fin. Now to manufacture the missing pod for one of the large fins andrepair a cracked large fin.

anyone ever flown this kit?

If I can track down my digi-cam I will take a photo of it..

check out this eye candy -

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day...

I have a vintage Super Vega, and have flown it twice. It flies to about 250 or 300 feet. Use a D-12-3 only. Cracked a fin and busted a landing pod on the first flight, no damage on the second. I retired mine, as it has become to fragile for flight over the years. It needs some TLC.

-- Joe Michel NAR 82797 L1

cracked large fin.

I've flown mine many times, and it flies very well. A real crowd-pleaser when finished up with the decals. Unfortunately mine had a recovery failure when I last flew it a month or so ago. Fortunately, it's repairable if I replace that forward section of tube. It's already survived an explosive CATO a few years ago, so every flight I get out of it is a "bonus."

BTW, I also saw some>That is it! Thanks to both posters!

cracked large fin.

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