Wow, that's a lovely ship. Great work!

thank you scott !

Nice work Jon, not something I would have the patience for, but sure can appreciate.

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Paul
If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane - Jimmy Buffett
NAR #87246 www.wooshrocketry.org

Having posted a NAR safety code violating method of rear ejection shock cord/motor retention, I feel obligated to post a method that will work without motor mutilation. I got a V2 kit with the intention of cloning the VF-261 that went to Seattle, but now that Semroc is producing them again, I will buy another VF-261 from eRockets. The boattail on the V2 kit is long enough to act as a centering ring for the internal bt20 and to hold the MM tube. If my memory serves(not a certainty) the boattail on the VF-261 was too short for this option. But this should be elegant and reliable. Notice just how little room there is for laundry. I had to make the 12in parachute out of a .65mil trash bag. You know the cheap thin trash bags that you would never trust to hold trash. The holes in the side of the MM tube get masking tape squares put in them to secure the motor in the tube. It works really well.

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Scott Pennington

thank you paul!!!

I'm stoked to see how this turns out! The earlier pix inspired me to shoot my latest project - made from leftover Photon Probe parts sine I used a chunk of the body tube to repair a zippered rocket - with some Rustoleum Nickle Silver I liberated from my wife's paint shelf :-)