No Nukes

Motivation

Bdale's wife Karen bought an air brush and asked for a rocket to paint. Bdale scrounged the parts pile and threw this rocket together very quickly. This is a simple single-deploy rocket for motor based ejection.

Design Details

• 98mm Giant Leap phenolic air frame
• 38mm phenolic motor mount
• 6-32 t-nuts for Kaplow clips
• MadCow Rocketry 98mm nose cone, though we debated using the Giant Leap Pinnacle 98mm nose cone, which would also be a good choice
• 1/4 inch birch plywood fins, upscaled from the LOC Lil Nuke
• 3/8 inch birch plywood centering rings and bulkheads, CNC milled, the two that hold the fins are notched for perfect fin alignment.

Build

Construction occurred during September 2009.

Publicity

Flights

First flown at NCR's Oktoberfest 2009, on a Cesaroni Pro38 2-grain Imax motor. This was my first use of a Pro38 grain spacer to fly this reload in my 3-grain case. It was a beautiful flight, but the airframe acquired a lengthy zipper at deployment.