10-17-2008, 02:08 PM
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BARCLONE Rocketry
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Posts: 5,357
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Originally Posted by CenturiGuy
...So here's my question: Should these modern-day updates (and upscales) count as new designs? (This is mostly rhetorical, but I'd like to get some objective input on my thinking here.)...
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In a nutshell, Yes. An upscale is still a new model, even if the design has been proven in a smaller scale. Larger versions, after all, don't always fly the same. I see a larger version as a separate design, since the construction may be different to achieve the same appearance.
Check out the full list of BARCLONEs, and you'll see quite a few upscales. Some of those are of BARCLONEs, others are of Estes and Centuri, and they're all logged as "new" designs. |