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Old 09-30-2018, 09:25 AM
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Good morning shipmates.

The nosecone is stuffed with a huge block of supplied plasticine(?) and 1/2" of epoxy and it weighs a whopping quarter pound! The supplied shock cord was indeed 1/4" wide, but it was white rubber--which I promptly replaced with 1/4" braided elastic fabric and 48" long.

My theory is: after ejection and laundry deployment (assuming the shock cord doesn't separate) the weight of the nosecone will cause the nose cone to recover physically lower than the rest of the model--with it's fragile winglets and and antennae.

TBC
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