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After losing my son's Quark on
its maiden flight,
we built this kid-roc to replace it. It uses the same nosecone as
the Quark, and was certainly inspired by the Quark. It used
lawn-dart
recovery like the Quark as well.
Having learned our lesson, we never flew the Coreman on
anything larger
than a 1/2A motor. We avoided losing it, but we were not able to
avoid the wind taking into a paved parking lot on the way down. Ouch.
The nosecone was blunted by the impact, and the body
tube suffered a
kink. Like so many other wrecked rockets, this one was able to be
recycled.
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The nosecone was sanded back into shape,
and the fin can
was salvaged and joined to a new piece of body tube, this time one long
enough to  contain a bonafide recovery system. Then, an external
motor hook was added for ease of preparation.
Finally, a decal adds
some personality.
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It turned out to be a sort of an A-motor
super-roc.
We usually fly it on 1/2A motors, but it seems to be right in between
delays.
A 1/2A3-2T is too short, and a
1/2A3-4T is too
long. And an A3-4T is guaranteed out-of-sight.
In this configuration, it has suffered
several separations
and a couple of broken fins. We don't fly it very often anymore.
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4-18-2004
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