After the last tower was crumpled from a long delay and late ejection,
I printed off another and made a new one.
This time around I made some changes.
In this new build, the LES Canister Module (the red tube on top) was glued into the tri-fold tower. On the first try, I simply glued it on top of the edges of the tri-fold.
By slightly recessing the LES Can Mod into the tower, it is much stronger.
The Aerospike was glued on after the clay nose weight was installed.
On the first capsule, a hole was cut in the back of the heat shield shroud to insert the clay nose weight.
This time clay was pressed into the capsule, then the heat shield was glued on. Now it's much stronger and looks cleaner.
It flew very well on November 6, 2010 with an 1/2A3-2t engine.
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