I just completed my Estes V-2 Rocket Kit, built per the Estes plans. Flown in the video on a D12-3 motor, the parachute fails, ripped 4 of the 6 lines right out of it... Fortunately no damage other than the parachute fail, so it will fly another day. The camo was not the easiest, but sure looks awesome, Im very happy with the outcome, using the TLAR method, and using Krylon Shortcuts hobby paint. My only complains other than the chute, are the fit of the tail cone to the paper tube, it took alot of filling with spackle and priming. Outcome was perfect, but this is the most work Ive ever spent on a rocket! I dont see it being an everyday flyer, especially since its $7 per flight on these motors! Enjoy! Estes website: http://www.estesrockets.com/rockets/kits/skill-3/003228-v2-semi-scale-model Technical Specifications Skill Level 3 Length - 22.4 in. (56.9 cm) Diameter - 2.6 in. (66 mm) Estimated Weight - 6.3 oz (178.6 g) Projected Max Altitude - 725 ft. (221 m) Laser cut wood fins, plastic nose cone, 18 in. (46 cm) parachute recovery Recommended Engines: C11-3 (First FLight), D12-3, *E9-4, *E9-6 Full scale Rocket Details: The V-2 Rocket (also called the A-4 or Aggregat 4) was developed by Wernher von Braun, Walter Dornberger and Hermann Oberth at the rocket research station at Peenemunde, and was first used in September 1944. Like the V-1 Flying Bomb, it carried a one ton warhead. The liquid-fuelled rocket was 14 metres (47 feet) long, capable of supersonic speed and could fly at an altitude of over 50 miles. As a result, it could not be effectively stopped once it had been launched. Of the 5,000 V-2s launched, only 1,100 successfully managed to reached Britain. These rockets killed 2,724 people and badly injured 6,000. After the D-Day landings, Allied troops were able to capture the launch sites and by March 1945, the attacks came to an end. Originally intended for use by the army to attack battlefield rear areas beyond the range of conventional artillery, the V2 (Vergeltungswaffe Zwei or Revenge Weapon Two) was the fourth weapon in a German Army research program known as Aggregat, which had been initiated under the technical direction of 24-year old Wernher Von Braun in 1932. The system was thus also known as the A-4. By 1942, the programme had been given top priority, and the first successful test took place on October 3, 1942. A meeting with Hitler in July 1943 allowed Von Braun to convince the Fuhrer of the potential of the weapon, who ordered it into mass production as quickly as possible. The V2 stood over 14 m (46 ft) tall and had a diameter of 168 cm (5 ft 6in). Launch weight was 12,873 kg (28,380 lb), including a 998 kg (2,201 lb) warhead containing 730 kg (1,620 lb) of high explosive. Propellant was a noxious mixture of liquid oxygen and a 75%-25% ethyl alcohol-water mixture. The lift-off thrust was some 25,000 kg (55,116 lb), giving the V2 a velocity of about 1,585 m/sec (5,200 ft/sec) and a maximum range of between 306 and 322 km (190 and 200 miles). Guidance was by a primitive three-axis gyropilot acting on steerable exhaust vanes and aerodynamic rudders, which gave the missile a Circular Error Probable (CEP: the diameter of a circle within which half the missiles would land) of 17 km (11 miles). Operation Paperclip conducted at the war's end brought von Braun, many of his coworkers, and a great deal of German rocket hardware and documentation to the United States, von Braun headed the effort to build the giant Saturn V rocket used to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon .