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Home / Archives / News Archive 2008 / Giant Leap releases the Firestorm 54 in Dyna-Wind
Giant Leap releases the Firestorm 54 in Dyna-Wind Print E-mail PDF
2008 Archived News by Giant Leap Rocketry   
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

ImageBATON ROUGE, Louisiana USA — Giant Leap Rocketry now offers the Firestorm 54 in Dyna-Wind airframe. Dyna-Wind is the compression-bonded composite tubing offered exclusively by Giant Leap. The Firestorm is available in single and dual deployment versions.

According to Ed, owner of Giant Leap, “Customers love the Firestorm 54, and know it’s available with an airframe that has the strength of composite tubing, but at a lower price.” 

The FIRESTORM 54 is carefully engineered to make it high performance on the one hand, yet simple to build on the other. It incorporates some very advanced features like:

  • Avionics Bay with mounting board! (dual deployment version only)
  • ACME fin canister, an incredibly strong fin unit, molded in a high compression mold using composite material.
  • Saves you the time and mess of laying up fins, and allows incredible speeds and force loads.
  • KEVLAR® shock cord - presewn loops (2 recovery sets on dual deployment version, and 1 with single deployment version).
  • KEVLAR® chute protectors.
  • Aluminum conformal rail guides.
  • Slimline motor retainer.
  • Supermount system to secure the shockcord to airframe. Easy to use!
  • New 54mm nosecone 5-to-1 exposed length, with sandable ribs, and secure connections.
  • Ripstop parachutes: 36" main chute and 18" drogue.
  • Quiklinks for easy connect and disconnect.
  • Vinyl Firestorm 54 Decal
  • 14 page instructions with step-by-step photos.
  • Dual Deployment in just a few hours!
  • Level 1 or 2 capable.
  • Mach-busting is easy ... Altitude records are just hours away.
  • Built to withstand hard landings, so rapid, high altitude descents are possible.
  • Dual deployment version can be flown in single deployment configuration.

To learn more about the Firestorm 54 in Dyna-Wind, please visit: http://www.giantleaprocketry.com/

KEVLAR® is a registered trademark of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in the United States.


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