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Another guess your best clone based on a catalog pic and the Semroc parts catalog. Apparently the original was a 3fnc, but I saw 4 fins. Not like many pop up at the pads these days. 88257498_10220012470295043_4329815144516288512_n.jpg

Three flights to date, the first one being a massive CATO on an Estes E9. Second flight was perfect except that the payload section rebounded into a fin and shattered it. Finally got it all to come together on flight #3.
 
I dug up this post with a Google search after perusing the old 1968 RDC Catalog that featured the Starlite and the first Enerjet composite motor that powered it. I will have to relearn a little trigonometry to come up with (3) fin size estimates from that catalog picture for my clone, but the 4 fin version looks fine too. I will probably use ST-11 and ST-16, as those sizes seem fairly close.
 
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