DavidMcCann
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Splitting off wild man's thread, this discussion came up. To be blunt- It's not required to scratch build, and anyone who says it should be is an elitist jerk.
No. There is nothing wrong with building a kit for your L3. I'm in the process of building a Widman Extreme for mine. Don't like it? Kiss it. With those motors, and the challenges of recovery etc, there is little difference between buying a kit, and grabbing parts. You're talking about cutting fins and slotting the tube. Oh that's so special.
I agree with this and would like to see Level-3 have to be a scratch built rocket and not a kit. I might get slammed for this but your building and design skills are really only demonstrated with a successfully flown and recovered scratch build rocket. I've seen scratch built Level-2 rockets that were more demanding than some Level-3 rockets made from a kit.
It takes some good design and building work to make a rocket fly successfully on a G-M motor. If someone bought a Drago EX for their L-3 would anyone have a problem with that?
No. There is nothing wrong with building a kit for your L3. I'm in the process of building a Widman Extreme for mine. Don't like it? Kiss it. With those motors, and the challenges of recovery etc, there is little difference between buying a kit, and grabbing parts. You're talking about cutting fins and slotting the tube. Oh that's so special.
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