Brief:
This is a very nice kit by Edmonds Aerospace. The pop pod comes back on a streamer, and the deltie glides back.

Construction:
The kit contains:

• 1 tube and a lot of little balsa parts, all very neatly laser-cut.

It was very easy to build, fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle. Everything fits together nicely, and everything was laser-cut. You just have to have a little glue and an hour or so.

Finishing:
Rob Edmonds recommends you use markers, so I did. It looks very nice with orange, yellow and green highlighters. Do not use paint.

Construction Rating: 5 out of 5

Flight:
I flew it 4 times. Once it separated at apogee, but the ejection charge had not fired; so the pop pod tumbled about 100 feet, and then popped. I used half a square of wadding, but that is all you need. Once I forgot it entirely while half prepping the glider, half keeping those idiotic 5 year olds from stepping on my rockets. Those kids were crazy. Once I had to rip my modified Echostar out of the hands of one of those mental little kids; and there had to be 3 dozen of the little devils. The RSO and the RCO were yelling over the loud speakers "DO NOT TOUCH THE ROCKETS".

Then my modified Echostar flew, and that demented little kid tried to race me to get to my own rocket. I do not think I have ever run faster than when I was trying to rescue my rockets from these un-supervised morons. I do not know where their parents were. Once some kid grabbed some super-detailed scale model and started running with it. He almost tripped over the parachute, but luckily the unfortunate owner grabbed his model and took it off him. WHEW! Anyway, my deltie flew straight every time I launched it, and once it caught a thermal and flew all the way to the parking lot and hit a car!

It was packed there, it was Space Day 2003, and the rocket landed right in the middle of the cars. I would have wasted half the day looking for it, if some nice stranger had found it sitting next to his car!

Recovery:
Flew well every time. I always had my eye on the glider, so I had to search for my pop-pod after every flight. Every time, though, somebody found it next to their chair, or where they were looking for their rocket, or just sitting in the field waving its little streamer.

Flight Rating: 5 out of 5

Summary:
Great rocket. I cant wait until the 18MM version comes out.

Overall Rating: 5 out of 5