Rich DeAngelis's Renegade

The Renegade: It is a very old model built in the 1970s by my brother. The Renegade is a classic '70s kit. Not at all like the modern Renegade; this is your father's Renegade. This is a large, tall, D-powered model, finished in the original catalog paint scheme. Build credits for this kit actually go to my brother. I modified it by adding my usual altimeter payload bay ("Iris"). This adds 4-1/2 inches to the rocket's length and 17 grams of nose-weight. I also replaced the Estes plastic parachute with a better nylon cloth parachute, and use a Nomex cloth instead of wadding. After an Iris test flight with a D12-5, I’m going to load this baby up with a Aerotech E20-7W engine and push the boundaries of rocket power (for me, anyways). This model reaches about 500' on a D12-5, but on an E20, I would expect at least 1000'. (Iris is named after the Greek god of the rainbow. She is a messenger of the gods, linking the gods with humanity.) This rocket has flown higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, even before it lost about 26 feet from erosion. It could have flown over the Kingda Ka Roller Coaster in Jackson.