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Old 10-22-2009, 09:17 PM
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Gus,

Those are extraordinarily dangerous! Ship them to me ASAP for proper disposal!

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Old 10-22-2009, 09:21 PM
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"...with parachute wrappers..."

A K A recovery wadding. I kind of like MMI's terminology - on one level, "parachute wrappers" is a very specific, functional way of describing wadding (if you already know what it is). On another level, it is strikingly vague and euphemistic. (Huh? Parachute wrappers? Why would you need wrapping paper for the parachute?)

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You might know this, but:

This wasn't wadding they were talking about. Way early on, parachutes were protected by a sort of folded paper cup with long "legs" that formed the sides. Plain paper, from everything I've read.

Ah, you can see them in one of the pictures, lower right side. The diagram printed on the outside sheet shows an assembled protector.

By the early '60s wadding replaced protectors.
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Old 10-22-2009, 09:24 PM
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You might know this, but:

This wasn't wadding they were talking about. Way early on, parachutes were protected by a sort of folded paper cup with long "legs" that formed the sides. Plain paper, from everything I've read.

Ah, you can see them in one of the pictures, lower right side. The diagram printed on the outside sheet shows an assembled protector.

By the early '60s wadding replaced protectors.


We have that in our display case too.
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Old 10-22-2009, 09:39 PM
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The box I have (white with plain green printing) was probably from 1959, according to Vern (due to original type of casing tubes).

The fancier printing on your box was probably used from 1960 through at least 1964, as I've seen a Model Missiles ad in a 1964 Boys Life with that design
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Old 10-22-2009, 09:50 PM
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You might know this, but:

This wasn't wadding they were talking about. Way early on, parachutes were protected by a sort of folded paper cup with long "legs" that formed the sides. Plain paper, from everything I've read.

Ah, you can see them in one of the pictures, lower right side. The diagram printed on the outside sheet shows an assembled protector.

By the early '60s wadding replaced protectors.
No, I didn't know that! Thanks for the info; now it makes sense.

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Old 10-22-2009, 09:53 PM
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The box I have (white with plain green printing) was probably from 1959, according to Vern (due to original type of casing tubes).

The fancier printing on your box was probably used from 1960 through at least 1964, as I've seen a Model Missiles ad in a 1964 Boys Life with that design

Roy,

Will you snap some pics and post them on this thread? I tried to do some research before posting here and I came up with zero photos of the old boxes.

I'm on my way out of town (to the Capitol Cup) but when I get back I will post scans of all the paperwork inside the box.

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Old 10-23-2009, 10:56 AM
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Gus, could you photo the little blue strip of paper and the parachute protector?

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Old 10-23-2009, 12:04 PM
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Gus here are some photos:

The first shows the original 6-pak box with Brown Manufactured Rock-A-Chutes while the 2nd photo shows Roy's Estes Enterprises Rock_A_Chutes in the same 6 pak box...


Dale windsor has a pic showing your 3-pak box and some 6 pak boxs:

http://www.dalescience.info/rocket/...e53/page53.html

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Old 10-23-2009, 10:17 PM
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Terry,

Thanks for posting the pics. When I get home I'll scan all the pieces and post them.
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Old 11-01-2009, 07:32 PM
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OK, here are scans of the box and contents.

1. Scan of box and all the contents
2. Box Front, including open top and bottom
3. Box back
4. Box sides
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