PML Spitfire

[bill2654]

[ATTACH][/ATTACH]This started out as just an ordinary scratch built but turned out to be a PML Spitfire. On a trip to Wichita and a visit with Mark Logan at the Science-Education Center, I picked up some supplies for this build. I bought a 3" tube and nose cone and 38mm motor mount tube and centering rings. He only carried fiberglass fin stock so I picked up a sheet of 3/16 ply at hobby lobby and headed home. I get home and since all this material I bought was PML, I thought I would go to their website and pick up a parachute piston ejection system. (I forgot that detail when in Wichita) Looking over some of PML's other kits, I realized that the design I had in mind looked just like their Spitfire so my no-name build became the Spitfire. Here are some pics of how things went so far. The pic with the "model" standing next to the rocket is an actual Spitfire from PML's site. Im still waiting on the piston ejection so she's not quit ready to take flight yet. Did some sim testing and it looks like this baby will fly beautifully! I will post her maiden flight info. Thanks for looking, Bill

[SMR]

This started out as just an ordinary scratch built but turned out to be a PML Spitfire.

Looks like a great rocket. And nice job filling the spirals. Just out of curiosity, was it significantly more expensive to buy the components vs what the kit would have cost?

[dave carver]

I'm betting it was less. It's turned out that way with all the clone-ish rockets I've build.

[bill2654]

It did turn out to be less. The list price for the kit is $89 and changs and I spent right around $10 less for materials. BUT when you figure the gas I used for a trip to Wichita, 400 miles round trip.....But I always have liked to scrath build. This is a new kit at PML and they dont have any motor recomendations posted on their website yet. Im sure it will take just about any 38mm motor made and even some 29's with an adapter. Cant wait to send her up! Bill

[SMR]

It did turn out to be less.

Cause you didn't have to pay for them to print up instructions!