Not if you connect the parts together with a shock cord. Look at my photo for an example of how I'd do it.

Though, having said that, a fully transparent 10" chute for the airframe might be cool...

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Hadn't thought of that, but I guess I'd put an external shock line in the rear of the model somewhere, and still simply eject the chute out the front.

I may take this one on as a build over the winter.

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Now I remember why I hated to cut clear (?) sheet acetate. I suppose it will do once glued in, but it looks a little rough going on.

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Just curious , I was pondering making a BT80 vesion

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Make this thing fly SCALE-LIKE.
Fill the nose with LEAD, zero recovery system, engine ejection.
Use a long-delay engine like a C6-7, D12-7, or even an OOP D11-9 to ensure ejection while pointed nose-DOWN.
Vehicle will ram the ground destroying itself just like the scale vehicle was meant to be flown.
Better yet, use a A3-4T with the clay ejection cap removed "CHAD" staged to a C6-7.
That will ensure a nose-down attitude when staging occurs, further enhancing the scale flight profile by POWR-PRANGING into the ground under thrust just like the real thing.

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Boy, that's just mean... fun, but mean.

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Not mean- SCALE. Entertaining nonetheless, but SCALE. Should get scale flight BONUS points for actually powr-pranging it at any NAR sanctioned contest too; that is how the REAL one was designed to be flown. Guarantee some mamby-pamby RSO would disallow it though.

I have spoken to some Japanese associates that I know and in this instance the word "Baka" directly translates to "Idiot"

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Well...if it wasn't aimed at a specific target on the ground, it might satisfy the letter (but definitely not the spirit) of the current version of Rule #8 of the NAR Safety Code (in the 2011 Estes Catalog):

"Flight Safety. I will not launch my rocket at targets, into clouds, or near airplanes, and will not put any flammable or explosive payload in my rocket."

A scale Lockheed X-17 re-entry test missile with a life-like flight profile (with Stage 1 firing upward and Stages 2 and 3 firing downward on the descending leg of the trajectory) would also be a good model to garner flight points at such a "demolition derby" scale model rocket event.That's true. T-shirt shops in Japan sell shirts for unsuspecting tourists that say (in Japanese characters flanking a Hinomaru "rising sun" symbol) "Baka Gaijin" ("Stupid Foreigner").

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