Stability is HIGHLY over-rated.
Cut that thing off just long enough to house the engine and a chute and watch the "antix" !
I'm sure it would be a much more memorable flight.
They should have at least made the thing out of CLEAR plastic which from a 100' away would be at least only minimally visible.

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

Thanks!!!

I appreciate the photos of the flight configuration and the flight. Is that stress consequences I see on the starboard nacelle? It doesn't look quite parallel there.

What happened was during the time I was away from the hobby from 1982 - 2003, it was in storage in a box along with many other models and parts of the model was slightly "bent" out of place. I had to "bend" it back as closely to its' original position as possible. The nacelles are usually very parallel otherwise. I have another Enterprise (and Klingon) still in the bag and hope to get around to building them in the near future. Both are great models, BTW.

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

Well, you could paint the launch tube blue and it would blend into the sky except on cloudy days...

LOL

I had that same thought!

I also thought black with various color speckles to simulate stars, etc.