Re: SpaceLoft XL Failure

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:28:02 -0500, C. Newport wrote
(in article <WdCdnfKWh8QcHL_YnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>):

What I thought was interesting is that around the same time the SpaceLoft XL
crashed, an amateur named Gene Nowaczyk successfully launched an 8" diameter
rocket on a Q motor reaching about 93,000.

So how many Estes D engines is that equivalent to? ;-)

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