My question on a flying plunger is. Do I fly an actual plunger or a stylized plunger, a super plunger. I can go either way. I have given this some thought.
Breaking it down (or unclogging it), I don’t think you can fly a complete “real” plunger, as that would involve the stick and wouldn’t have room for recovery gear.
so I think the closest thing would be using a real rubber plunger head with a proportional cardboard and/or fiberglass tube as the handle and a hemispherical nose cone. Problem with this is proportionality. The real rubber plunger piece can give you enough drag for stability, especially if you add nose weight, but recovery space is gonna be tight.
old trick I used in grade school projects, never tried it in a rocket, was to inflate a balloon, use newspaper strips soaked in flour/water to make paper mache
(brief search came up with a recipe, I can’t vouch for it)
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/no-cook-paper-mache-paste-recipe-1253087
cover the ballon with at least two layers, hang by nozzle and allow to dry completely. Once dry pop and remove the balloon.
I am wondering if you could use fiberglass cloth either in top of or instead of the newspaper. I don’t mess with fiberglass, don’t need it for low power and since I build indoors while watching TV with my wife, epoxy and other smelly/toxic fume generators aren’t an option for me.
instead of a ballon, might be able to do the same thing on top surface of a Vaseline coated plunger to get curves right.
in any case, this may give you the look you want without the weight you don’t.
you can always use the
@Daddyisabar solution and put tractors up front, but I think it would degrade the aesthetics.
if you do build it, you absolutely have to fly it on a Skidmark motor.