Czech ASTRA
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I picked up a vintage Czech kit at the Cannon auction at NARAM 50. The kit was made by IGRA in the mid 1960's and came with 6 ADAST motors. I am scanning everything for Scott... but here are a few pics to whet your appetities. The model looks like a ASTRON Mark, and has a 24mm OD body tube, a soft plastic or resin nosecone, a printed fin set, two sets of decals, a dried up tube of IGRA glue, and a cloth parachute!!
Phred |
Looks like a very nice, simple kit.
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thanks Phred! Roy, is this your Czech ASTRA? It was designed and sold by Otakar Saffek, "the G. Harry Stine" of the old Czechoslovakia back circa 1965. I have some more information about this that I will scan for Scott and post some of it here later.
Phred, wheres the fron/side top views of those ADAST's/ I'd be very careful with those if I was you. I think they may have some picric acid in them. terry dean |
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No, this is another kit. Carl has my kit, as I gave it to him at the Vendors forum. Three years ago I promised to scan everything for him, and I had so much trouble getting everything to work and then things came up and I'd forget about it for awhile, etc, and so on, so that this time just before I left, I decided to take the kit with me and hand it to him. I took the motors out though, so he wouldn't have a problem shipping it back to me. The motors in my kit are definitely black powder motors. 2.5ns. The WidowMaker motors I believe started at 10ns and were from three or four years later. Stuart Lodge has a description of them in one of his books. |
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"picnic acid"? |
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Looks like Carl had your kit :D Doug . |
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But, other than seeing it was an "r" and not an "n", I'm chemically ignorant :) However, google makes me smart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid Doug . |
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close: PICRIC acid an explosive : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid terry dean |
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p i c r i c acid --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid |
Anyone else want to post that link again?
:D :rolleyes: |
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