BATON ROUGE, Louisianna USA -- Giant Leap Rocketry, Inc. now offers it's line of fins in an aerospace composite material used in advanced aircraft. It is a rigid honeycomb of NOMEX™ sandwiched between either thin G-10 Fiberglass or Carbon Fiber.

According to Ed Shihadeh of Giant Leap Rocketry, the material is much stronger than wood, more rigid than G-10 of equivelent thickness. It is also light — about 1/3 the weight of standard G-10.

Ed maintains that one of the many advantages of high strength composite fins is their low weight. He says, "you can actually realize a double-weight savings by using composite fins. Since removing weight at the AFT end of the rocket makes it more stable, there's no need for additional nose weight to compensate for heavy fins. The savings in weight not only increases performance, but it opens up a wider range of possible motors."

The material thickness is 1/8", 1/4", or 1/2" in the NOMEX & fiberglass combination, and 3/8" thick in the Carbon Fiber version.

Custom cut fins are available in this material. Customers can edge fins with dowel, or flat hardwood stock, or even G-10 strips.

For more infomation, visit the website at: http://www.giantleaprocketry.com

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