2.6" Fiberglass Fire Flyer

Screaming Atomic Lime Goodness

Posted by Dave Cook on 9th Dec 2016

I got my Fire Flyer kit a few months before the Madcow takeover of RW. To me it was one of the nicest designs RW had. Everything went together fine and I added some of my usual extras - bolt-ring bulkheads for a tracker sled in the nose, OneBadHawk kevlar harnesses, my own machined charge wells, and a full redundant sled. I also made a fully accurate OpenRocket file - ping me on Facebook if you're interested.
Though it looks like a split-fin setup, the fins are actually one piece. That worked out quite nicely and saved some work for alignment.
The shocking lime green colored FG tube is fantastic; this is the first "no-paint" rocket I've built that I actually think looks good as is.
With the 54mm mount in a 66mm rocket, the performance is upper deck. "I" motors will give a nice visible 3000' flight, J's are well out of sight, and K's may threaten your waiver. A good paint job and using flyaway lugs or a tower instead of rail buttons would improve performance even more.