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Yet again someone has presented me an opportunity to buy a piece of my childhood. Having just sold a motor, I felt it was justified.

This is a Performance Rocketry 5.5" Nike Smoke kit. (not Performance Honbies, Performance Rocketry. Curtis Turner's company before Proline/Rocketry Warehouse/Composite Warehouse).

What's unique about these kits is the single-piece molded carbon fiber fin can with scale fins. The nosecone also has scale features and the airframe is roll-wrapped cloth G10 fiberglass. It's insanely light! Planning on cutting it into a dual deploy setup and putting a 98mm mount in it.

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Brent Bierstedt

You find some great old kits. If you run across another 7.5 inch Honest John let me know. I did my level 3 on one and eventually lost it after many flights to an ex CATO

Rocket Vlogs

You might want to give Ken Allen a call at Performance Hobbies. Apparently after I bought mine someone called him and managed to get one

RocketMan

Be careful those old fin cans were known to shred pretty easily. I know some people would fill the fins with either two part foam or epoxy with chopped carbon or milled glass.