Source: Estes Industries
Kit # EST7288
Type: Glider Sport Model
Stages: Single
Engine Type: 18mm
Recovery: Parachute, Glider
Booster Length: 55.5cm
Diameter: 354m
Glider Length: 15cm
Glider Diameter: 83mm
Overall Length: 62cm
Weight Empty: 84.6g
Nose Cone: Tangent Ogive
Fin Type: Swept
Number of Fins: 4 plus Ring Glider
Color Scheme: Dark Blue, Yellow
Green Trim
Date Completed: 26 November, 2019
A Unique Glider Model
Being a professed aficionado of any model that goes up under rocket power and glides back down, adding an Estes Solo kit to the fleet is a no-brainer.
The Solo is one of the new kits that Estes markets exclusively through Hobby Lobby stores. The model features a plastic fin and motor mount assembly, pre-finished body tube, and a very interesting plastic and card stock ring glider.
Touted as a beginner’s level build, the model goes together very quickly with the use of plastic model cement.
The bird took only an hour on the workbench, including substituting the rubber shock cord with a fiber elastic version, and the application of some fleet number decals.
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| A new Solo kit - fresh from Hobby Lobby |
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Da parts.....
And the glider.
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Hi, Chris,
ReplyDeleteYep, I wasn't thrilled with the tape idea either. Especially when I came back next day and found that some of the tape had pulled up and separated from the plastic. I ended up peeling the rest off, inserting the card ring back into the slot, and flowing some thin CA into the joint. It seems to be pretty strong. The wisdom of this method will be found out after a couple of powered flights.