# No Nukes

## Motivation

Bdale's wife Karen bought an air brush and asked for a rocket to paint.  Bdale
scrounged the parts pile and threw this rocket together very quickly.  This is
a simple single-deploy rocket for motor based ejection.

## Design Details

* 98mm [Giant Leap](http://giantleaprocketry.com) phenolic air frame
* 38mm phenolic motor mount
* 6-32 t-nuts for Kaplow clips
* 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
* 1/4 inch birch plywood fins, upscaled from the LOC Lil Nuke
* 3/8 inch birch plywood centering rings and bulkheads, CNC milled, the two 
  that hold the fins are notched for perfect fin alignment.

## Build

Construction occurred during September 2009.

## Publicity

## Flights

First flown at NCR's Oktoberfest 2009, on a Cesaroni Pro38 2-grain Imax
motor.  This was my first use of a Pro38 grain spacer to fly this reload
in my 3-grain case.  It was a beautiful flight, but the airframe acquired 
a lengthy zipper at deployment.