Odd'l Rockets F-104 Starfighter Recovery Suggestion

 

This is similar to a suggested recovery on the original Centuri Fighter Fleet Jets.

Alternative Recovery:

To have the jet recover horizontally and lessen the chance of fin or wing damage:

1. Glue the engine mount in so the engine hook is at the top, nearest the rudder.

2. Tie the nose cone onto the shock cord, leaving two inches of 

the elastic cord. Tie the parachute shroud lines to the end of the elastic.

3. Tie the excess shroud line (you will have some left over) to the engine hook and then to the shock cord at the balance point, where the model hangs horizontally.

The string should be long enough to lay outside and down the body tube during boost.

Busy, Busy, Busy at Odd'l Rockets

I've been busy printing decals, cutting tubes, printing instructions, bending springs and vacu-forming jet canopies.

The past two weeks has included production of:

14 Heavy Duty Engine Mounts (HDEMs)

12 Adeptors

6 Break-Away kits

9 Birdie kits

14 Sputnik kits

8 Cyclone kits

19 Single Raise Springs

7 Raise Spring 10 packs

10 F-16 kits

13 F-104 kits

36 F-18 kits

This may not seem like a lot compared to a big vendor, but it's just me!

It took over 10 years, but here I am with sometimes more work than I can handle.