Monday, February 22, 2010

Darkstar lite build

I recently purchased an all fiberglass Darkstar Lite kit from Wildman Rocketry:


I needed an easy sport flyer for 29mm motors as my Arreaux is aging. This kit goes together so fast! Here's the AeroPack motor retainer end:
And the forward end:
And the overview of the motor tube assembly:
And, using this stupidly simple masking tape rig, I was able to tack all 6 fins to the motor tube at one time. Big fan!:
And these last two pics complete the assembly. I forgot to take them before flying this three times on Saturday so that's why the white tail end epoxy looks soiled:

And no the top fins are not tilted. Chalk that up to wide-angle lens distortion. Now onto finishing...