Yes, but it's no match for an airport taxiway!
I flew my MR-1 with Houston's Tripoli-002 in December down at their Hearne (TX) airport launch site. I had read enough build threads and reviews to know that I wanted to ditch the brass launch lug, so I substituted a 1/4 paper lug. Launch day was a bit windy, and the first time the MR-1 was on the pad, a little gust of wind levered the rocket at the lug, and it promptly popped off. Ah, well.. a bit of sandpaper and a new lug epoxied on with 5-min epoxy, and we were set to go.
Maiden flight with a Roadrunner G-80 went well. It landed fairly close to the pad.. about 75 yards away after a nice flight to about 700 feet.
Next flight up on a Cessaroni H-153 and everyone lost sight of it as it took off like the proverbial scalded bandit. A couple of folks said they heard the ejection event, but no one.. and that was about 8-9 people all looking.. no one saw it deploy or land. No one heard a "screeeeeee-thunk", so hopefully it came in under chute.
One of the folks who left after my wife and I had already started back to Fort Worth, saw some pieces of white plastic on the taxiway as they were headed out, and then saw the rocket in the grass by the taxiway - minus the white plastic transition (the debris on the taxiway).
This was my first experience with the PVC ... errr.. Quantum tubing. I'm not impressed with its ability to absorb an impact on a hard surface, so if that's even remotely possible where you fly yours, think twice.
This is a small rocket, and it needs a tracker in it if you're going to fly it on anything larger than a G, because it can scoot out of sight in a flash. If it had survived, I had already decided to mount a Big Red Bee in the nose cone for the next time. But, alas... it didn't. The quantum tubing crimped just forward of one of the fins, and as mentioned before, the transition shattered.
But, it did look oh, so good going up!
BTW - I found it much easier to slip the nylon strap under the centering ring (and yes, I also had to enlarge the hole a bit to take the strap) and then epoxy the centering ring and the strap onto the motor tube.