A Tale of Two Novas

For this post, I give you the following photo:

The Nova...and the Nova...

What we have here are clearly two Flight Systems "Nova" kits. The one on the left was packaged sometime in the 70's and was obtained from my long time rocket friend Bob Turner (who happened to have a birthday last week..Happy birthday, Bob!).
The one on the right is clearly the same kit, but packaged in the late 80's or early 90's, just before FSI ceased production, right?

WRONG!

The one on the right is actually much more interesting than that! You see, it was actually packaged a few weeks ago and then purchased at NARAM by John Dyer!  FSI is coming back, folks; and one of the ways the new owners celebrated that fact was to package "NOS" kits (New Old Stock) out of parts and packaging left over from the original company and sell them at NARAM! And what's even more exciting is that in addition to the cool FSI kits, they intend to release new versions of those ultimately cool FSI black powder motors!!!

So, we here at STB are wishing them the very best and are eagerly standing by with credit card in hand!

Until next time, fly 'em fast and high! (with FSI!)