Czech ASTRA
 

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.

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

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.

"picnic acid"?

Looks like Carl had your kit :D

Doug

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Not picNic, picRic.

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

p i c r i c acid --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid

Anyone else want to post that link again?
:D :rolleyes: