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Old 06-04-2019, 10:05 PM
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Default Pershing II Rebuild

About 10 Years ago I built a Pershing II based on the Estes BT-80 body tube. An employee of mine was stationed with the Pershing II for a short period. Knowing I build model rockets he challenged me to build one.

I launched the Pershing II on a D12-3 for the first time. It was a bittersweet launch. Perfect launch and it went up straight as an arrow. Chute deployed fine, but the wind picked up about then and carried it over to the ball field. It slammed pretty hard into the chain link backstop wedging the nose cone in it. Knocked a fin off which is an easy fix, but it shattered the styrene wrap on the nose. It proved out to be a great flyer, but from there is sat damaged for 10 years on a shelf.
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