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Today's Featured Review

Custom Rockets - Matra {Kit} (10018)

Manufacturer: Custom Rockets
Style: Military

Construction Rating:
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Contributed by Bill Eichelberger

Brief

The Custom Matra is a cool faux-missile rocket with a difference that might not have been completely obvious to anyone checking out the picture in the catalog back in 1994-95. It has seven fins, set in a four on the bottom, three on the top pattern. While I doubt that this oddity would detract from the rockets performance, it would never sit well in my mind, so I had a decision to make. Would my Matra be an eight fin rocket or a six fin rocket? Simple decision, really.

Components

PNC-60 nose cone
18" BT-60 main body tube
6" BT-60 upper body tube
9" BT-50 transition body tube
3/32" die-crunch balsa fin stock
BT-50 engine mount (from Estes Vagabond donor)
decal
5060 centering rings (6)

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Judyta Anna

Location: Las Vegas

Biography:

Prowadzimy usługi kompleksowe w tematyce rekultywacji a także remediacji zanieczyszczonych wód gruntowych - remediacja gleby. Wspomożemy na każdym etapie inwestycji. Zaczynając od projektu, skończywszy na realizacji zadania. Promujemy współczesne technologie, które oszczędzają czas a co najważniejsze finanse. Nasza firma wiecznie pragnie doradzić i szuka bardzo dobrych rozwiązań. Za każdym razem potrafimy pomóc w wyborze i realizacji zadań. Zapraszamy.

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TTRA Launches

June 2012 Launch

Aerotech Sumo Launch

Photo by Roger Smith

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