Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Centuri Screaming Eagle Build, Part 6 Parachute and Nose Cone

The parachute was 12" diameter, printed in yellow and black.
The sheet feels thinner than today's parachute material.
On the lower right was a old Centuri logo.

The instructions said to cut three 25" lengths of shroud line.
Hard to do when the shroud line was only 71" long!

The tape disks had lost their adhesive a long time ago. I'll substitute some new Avery tape disks.




The bag included additional directions for gluing in the nose cone shoulder.
Too many nose cones cracked when trying to snap in the shoulder base.

On the left you can see the interior ring the shoulder should snap into.
I ended up gluing the yellow shoulder in place, the ridge ring butts up against the bottom of the red nose cone.
Even with the low shoulder ring outside the nose cone, the body tube fit is good.

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