Performance Rocketry - Nike Smoke 1/3 Scale (5.5)

Performance Rocketry - Nike Smoke 1/3 Scale (5.5) Kit

Performance Rocketry Nike Smoke 1/3 Scale (5.5) By Jack Caynon (January 19, 2015)
This kit is the 1/3 scale model of NASA's Nike Smoke. The tubing is 5.5 inch diameter G-10 fiberglass. The Nike Smoke was a rocket that NASA would use to determine windspeed at high altitudes before they would launch the Saturn V moon rockets. Components This review covers the "old" kit, not the new one. The old kit had a prefab fiberglass fin can rather than ...
Performance Rocketry 1/3 Scale 5.5" Nike Smoke By Gary Tortora (April 12, 2011)
Brief This is Performance Rocketry's 1/3 Scale 5.5" Nike Smoke. The kit stands 77" tall and is made in either G10 or G12. For my kit I wanted a few things different from the standard 54mm single deploy version, I had mine made with a 75mm MM and dual deploy. My finished build weight with everything but the motor came in at 16lbs. Components The kits parts were all ...