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Originally Posted by foamy

I agree. I like building regular rockets for the reasons you stated.

The Arcon's clean, uncluttered lines and tapered boat-tail should enable your scale model of it to fly high even on lower-impulse motors. Also, it should have enough excess stability margin to be CHAD-staged ("CHeap And Dirty" staging, using just a booster motor with no fins; the British Skylark 7 and Skylark 12 sounding rockets also used finless boosters).

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Originally Posted by foamy

I also like retro-futuristic rockets for almost the opposite reasons. They tend to be outlandish in an old-fashioned way and I appreciate nice curves (on whatever).

The folks who select the photographs for the Mischka Press Draft Horse Calendars certainly have a good aesthetic sense for depicting draft mares' curves... For rockets, I certainly concur--the V-2 and its form-inspired descendants (the American MX-774 and the Soviet R-2) do have the classic "Rocketship" look.

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Originally Posted by foamy

Antenna pods, eh? They'd be easy enough to make and they'd add a bit of interest and differentiate it from some other, similar rockets. I may do that.

They could even be functional antennas. You could build an Estes Transroc 11 meter band (CB band) transmitter using one of the Transroc version schematics here (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/Tr...wnersManual.pdf ) and connect it to the antennas through a simple capacitor-and-coil "L-match" antenna matching network. The antennas could be utilized as either a radiator-and-counterpoise set (essentially a dipole antenna) or as two radiating elements (connected in parallel to the transmitter's antenna output) worked against another counterpoise (foil or metal mesh wrapped around the inside or outside of the body tube but not directly beneath the radiating elements).

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Originally Posted by foamy

Again, thanks for your insights and the Alway tip.

You're most welcome.