5 Bdale's wife Karen bought an air brush and asked for a rocket to paint. Bdale
6 scrounged the parts pile and threw this rocket together very quickly. This is
7 a simple single-deploy rocket for motor based ejection.
11 * 98mm [Giant Leap](http://giantleaprocketry.com) phenolic air frame
12 * 38mm phenolic motor mount
13 * 6-32 t-nuts for Kaplow clips
14 * MadCow Rocketry [98mm nose cone](http://www.madcowrocketry.com/servlet/Detail?no=74), though we debated using the [Giant Leap](http://giantleaprocketry.com/) Pinnacle 98mm nose cone, which would also be a good choice
15 * 1/4 inch birch plywood fins, upscaled from the LOC Lil Nuke
16 * 3/8 inch birch plywood centering rings and bulkheads, CNC milled, the two
17 that hold the fins are notched for perfect fin alignment.
21 Construction occurred during September 2009.
27 First flown at NCR's Oktoberfest 2009, on a Cesaroni Pro38 2-grain Imax
28 motor. This was my first use of a Pro38 grain spacer to fly this reload
29 in my 3-grain case. It was a beautiful flight, but the airframe acquired
30 a lengthy zipper at deployment.