Jeff Proschold's Piranha

Jeff brought this great scratch-built rocket to LUNAR's February '96 launch. Note the graceful sweep of the fins, the glossy two-tone purple paint job, and the subtle taper of the boat tail -- built from a conical cardboard string bobbin!

Jeff with the Piranha on an F12-3

Unfortunately. the rocket suffered a separation, and while the nosecone drifted away in the breeze, the (apparently over-stable) body augered straight in -- a literal core sample. "And that," the LCO rationalized, "is why the rest of us don't build them so pretty!"

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