Flew my VF-261 at the SoAR launch on Saturday, and I have a couple of suggestions.

1. longer shock cord, or maybe no elastic at all. The rocket fell victim to a SHOTGUN-BLAST ejection charge on an A8-3. Since the nose has a lot of weight, it snapped back at 90 degrees into the body tube, which took a crescent chunk out of it. Nothing that wood filler won't fix, and I hadn't painted it yet. The body tube didn't seem hurt at all.

2. As I expected, upon landing, one of the launch lugs on the fin tips buckled. I'm going to put a length of 1/8" dowel in to straighten and strengthen it, and do the same for the other two fins to try to prevent this in the future.

Otherwise, it flew very nicely!

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