I recently built this cloned Der V-3, while bored one evening over the holidays. I had all the parts on hand, and just needed to order the decals from Excelsior. Its ready to go now, just waiting for spring...
UPDATE: well, on this rocket's 13th flight, it suffered what Space-X would describe as a "hard landing". Basically, it lawn-darted, splintering the cone and blowing out the upper body tube. Its ugly. At least the new Jolly Logic Chute release that was onboard survived intact. I may be able to salvage the fin can and rebuild it from there up.
UPDATE 2: this rocket has been repaired with parts from an Estes V-2 kit. Basically, it amounted to cutting off the damaged tube and grafting on a new segment with a coupler, then repairing the motor mount. Should be flying again soon!
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