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T' Renegade: It is a very old model built in t' 1970s by me brother. T' Renegade is a classic '70s kit. Avast, me proud beauty! Nay at all like t' modern Renegade; this is your father's Renegade. This is a large, tall, D-powered model, finished in t' original catalog paint scheme. Build credits for this kit actually go to my brother. I modified it by addin' me usual altimeter payload bay ("Iris"). Ya scallywag! This adds 4-1/2 inches t' t' rocket's length and 17 grams o' nose-weight. Blimey! I also replaced t' Estes plastic parachute with a better nylon cloth parachute, and use a Nomex cloth instead o' wadding. After an Iris test flight with a D12-5, I’m goin' t' load this baby up with a Aerotech E20-7W engine and push t' boundaries o' 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 t' Greek god o' t' rainbow. Ya scallywag! She is a messenger o' t' gods, linkin' t' gods with humanity.) This rocket has flown higher than William Penn on top o' t' Philadelphia City Hall building, NASA's VAB buildin' at Cape Kennedy, matey, or t' Cologne Cathedral in Germany.
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