Hey Rocket Doctor; got the latest LAUNCH magazine several days ago, and really enjoyed
the article on Bill Simon and his role with the "Golden Days" of Estes Industries. There's a
full page with the article listing the designers of many of the Estes classic kits. Was wondering why the K-22 scale V-2 wasn't listed, and who produced this kit for Estes?

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

I will try to get that info for you and post it.

RD

Please do. The K - 22 kit is one of my all time favorites. I still fly mine, used most recently
(last December @ JSC) for the parachute spot landing event at the Gulf Coast Regional Meet.
Pic below is that model on the pad (with the 1/2A6-2 engine) ready for the PSL event.

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

Haven't been able to get an answer for you yet, but, I'm still working on it. Maybe that's why it wasn't listed.

Do you think it might have been a scale design submitted by a model rocketeer customer?
There's also a few other classic kits not listed in the LAUNCH page (can't remember them off
the top of my head, since the magazine is in my room and I'm fixing to go to work; maybe
this evening I'll run through it and list the others, too).

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

Like I had mentioned, maybe the info got lost over the years, records weren't always kept, or, have been discarded over the years due to management changes.

I will continue to search, wish me luck. But, I think it may be unknown at this point.Someone should have kept that info in a log for this exact reason. It was great that you started a new listing, it, just needs to be updated wvery year.

RD

If memory serves, the K - 22 V-2 first appeared in the 1966 Estes catalog (like, if that helps
any).....

What strikes me about this kit is it has more balsa components than paper! Same for the
Centuri V-2 (which I've built a clone of several years ago from balsa parts from BMS)....

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

Doctor,

While you're looking, I noticed my favorite, K-26 Arcas, was not listed either . . . .

Wayne did not list the designer on many of the scale models. I guess his reasoning was that the design was already done; they were just producing the finished product.

I would like to see who made the design decisions to make the scale kits come alive. A good example is the Saturn 1B by Gene Street. It is not an exect scale model (like all the rest, for that matter!) and the beauty is in the interpretation.

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com

I will try to find out about this one as well. I have suggested to vern that he include a section in his book on the kits and their designers so this information is saved fro future rocketeers.