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Old 01-26-2020, 10:39 AM
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Here's the build of the Xanadune (finish to start) from 2011.
http://modelrocketbuilding.blogspot.../label/Xanadune

These were probably some of the first kits to really take advantage of laser cut parts.
Some interesting construction, but as I remember the baffle didn't work very well.

Launch report from May, 2011:
With an Estes A8-3, it spun on the way up, the fins are canted.
At ejection, only the nose cone blew, the tightly packed parachute didn't eject. In that narrow midsection there is little room for a parachute.
Take a look at the casing pulled after the flight.
Most of the ejection charge blew out the back, down the open corners of the square bodied engine mount.
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