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Originally Posted by vigilante
Even tho the picture on the box shows them as red, the one I built back in the day only had black stickers if I remember correctly.
BUT having said that, the red looks pretty cool...
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Sandman's post (and your reply to it) brings up a consideration I hadn't thought of before: My set's rocket also had all-black & white self-adhesive paper stickers, and it was made by Science Fair Electronics--was yours? The reason why I ask is because the Aeronautical Lab Kit was *also* sold by Logix Enterprises under its own name (you can see both versions here:
http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/Aeronautic.html ), and it's possible--although not likely; I'll explain below--that the rocket decal in their set had a red stripe (which I agree would look quite cool!). Also:
I bought a manual from an Aeronautical Lab Kit off eBay last year or the year before (I have it next to me now), and it's from the Science Fair SFX-4000 Aeronautical Lab Kit. Except for the company name on the cover, it looks identical to the Logix Enterprises manual on the above-linked web page (the plastic parts in both sets are molded in blue, while the plastic parts in my set were molded in red). This Science Fair manual was printed in Canada (Copyright 1973) and is copyrighted to Logix Enterprises in Montreal, Quebec. In addition:
I think the artist took some "artistic license" when s/he created the manual cover illustration that shows both the catapult rocket and the solid propellant rocket (the latter with its main body and nose cone parachutes deployed), with the limb of the crescent Moon behind and above them. Both rockets have red bands and stripes as well as black & white checkerboard roll patterns. While it is possible that Logix Enterprises' Aeronautical Lab Kit came with red, white, and black stickers for its rockets (and/or that Science Fair Electronics added red stripes to its rocket decals in later production runs of the set), I think the artist just used all three colors (in addition to the overall white color for both illustrated rockets, which wasn't the case for the actual ones [they had natural kraft body tubes and blue or red plastic nose cones, with no painting suggested]) to make the rocket illustrations more eye-catching and aesthetically pleasing. (They would, however, look very nice if painted and "decaled" as illustrated on the manual's cover!)