Yes, you found my weakness. Haven't done very many of the escape towers. My air rockets wouldn't go very high with them. This is the main reason all the staging system and details are drawn on my rockets, not an actual part like the Estes version.

I do have a 1/12 size Mercury Redstone Tower. Just haven't posted anything on it. Used lollipop sticks to make. Buy them in different lengths, diameters from any place that sells candy cooking supplies.

The Saturn Apollo Tower is fairly easy to design. I'll look into it once these two fly, and after I do a Saturn 1b, get my 6ft long F104-Starfighter finished, half done, the Sonex Jet project flying. Oh, Jason (Blackshire) is getting me going on my old wind turbine project, been bugging me about thoughts he has on how to get past a couple of hurdles. He's right. If I can get past them, it has the highest priority. Will be ready for production.

Need a perfectly balanced 2" wide per side equal triangle shaft 3ft long with centered 3/4" round shaft at the ends.

Final hurdle is a UV protectant for a type of paper that nobody has a product that will stick to it.

I found some superglue that does, and has been working since 2010 when the prototype was built. Still have it.

Yupo Synthetic Papers gave me a full pack of the paper when I told them what it was going to used for. Their engineering department even helped with the look for the UV protectant.

Jason mentioned the color black on a shade or shroud/augmenter. Black got me to think of something else. Black Primers might stick, then UV on top. Worth a try. UV sprays I tried all peeled off within a week. Primers are different though.

Mike