Hawks Hobby Super Mark

[jadebox]

At the 2007 Florida WinterNationals, my wife won a Hawks Hobby Super Mark kit in the raffle. She was nice and let me build it.

http://www.payloadbay.com/gallery/d/15187-2/mark-001.jpg

The kit is packaged in the standard way. Opening the bag, you discover that all the parts are high-quality. The centering rings, for example, are laser cut from thin plywood and a pre-assembled nylon parachute is included.

http://www.payloadbay.com/gallery/d/15209-2/mark-023.jpg

Assembly is straight-forward and the instructions are detailed. The only problem I ran into was having the motor mount stick as I slid it into the body tube. I used wood glue and should have remembered that it binds when sliding things together like that. But a sharp rap against the table moved the motor mount into place.

http://www.payloadbay.com/gallery/d/15715-2/2007-07-07+10-21-57.jpg

I painted the rocket "Apple Red" and used the Monokote provided in the kit to add stripes.

I flew the rocket on an C11 and the flight was flawless.

http://www.payloadbay.com/gallery/d/15745-2/2007-07-07+10-35-16_3.jpg

The Super Mark is a nice tribute to G. Harry Stine's design and the Estes's early days.

-- Roger
http://www.payloadbay.com/article-building-the-hawks-hobby-super-mark.html

[dwmzmm]

http://www.rocketreviews.com/reviews/kits/hh_super_mark.html

The Super Mark is a great kit and fun to fly. I used a C6-3 the last time I flew it (see my flight logs in the above linked review) with a 2050 interchangable motor mount. How about
posting your Super Mark's flight in the EMRR flight log?!

BTW, GREAT pics you posted!