Mach 10 - dumb question
 

What was the thickness of the balsa on the Mach 10 kit? I'm looking at cloning one.

Thanks!

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3/32" per Semroc

There is a complete and virtually ready to fly Mach 10 in a batch of rockets that was donated to my club. The surfaces are all 3/32, which corroborates what Semroc is doing with the laser cut parts linked to above.

Awesome. Thanks for the confirmation guys. Next dumb question, how long was the streamer?

Thanks!

Somewhere between 6" and 6'

Long enough to see it when the marker cone falls. Just let it hang out the back of the rocket.

The streamer in that same built example I mentioned is 3 feet long, and tied in the middle to the nose cone.

Thanks. That about what i figured.

Yup--that was a favorite Centuri style. They advocated tying the shock cord (or the nose cone, in some cases, including the Mach 10's) to a long streamer in its middle. The miniature "flight profile" drawings accompanying the kit illustrations in their catalogs' kit citations also showed this for their streamer-recovered models such as the Micron, the Bandito, and (for the nose cone "target marker") the Mach 10.