Thanks Marc.
Thanks Indy. The thrust vectoring you see might be the wind against the exhaust. It was still blowing pretty well when I launched.
Jon, Wow, I didn't know Sandman was kitting these? He helped out a great deal when I first decided I wanted to build a Pershing II a couple years ago. The initial drawings he made were a good jumping off point, but after studying the tech manual and scads of photos, talking with different folks, and then getting Rocksim, I decided to draw up my own, changed a few dimensions, etc. I don't know if it's really any better than where we started, but it uses all standard parts and paper shrouds. I don't know what detail bits Sandman included with the kit, but I'm sure he included the explosion hatch(since he drew that), but if you need some of the things I drew(like the low transition details), let me know.
Edit: Indy, I studied that photo again. It looks like there may very well be some vectoring going on there. It took a near horizontal path towards the end of the burn. I attributed it to "wind cocking". Interesting.
