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Old 10-20-2018, 06:55 PM
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Well,

No flight report yet. The weather's been terrible for the last two weeks, either rain or wind. Today was steady 30 mph wind with gusts to 45.

In the mean time, I built a dedicated Glider-Launching-Rocket out of spare parts. It's 18" of BT-56 (actually two scrap pieces with a coupler), the usual Estes plastic cone and a Semroc ST-13 engine mount. For fun, I decided to give the rocket a Vashon/CoolPower theme so I used the fin pattern from the X-13 sheet and a Mylar parachute. Paint is CoolPower style. The Chrome and Black are Dupicolor; the Orange and White are Rustoleum.


Here it is against this afternoon's angry Texas sky. Note the permanently mounted launch lugs for single glider or double flying. Now i'm REALLY ready to launch . . . .
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