I've tied off the NC bridle to the airframe and parachute bridle and they are in the carbon tube.

At this point I'll fill the centrifuge vial with BP and finish buttoning the whole thing up.  In this scheme,
the BP charge blows the chute and bridle aft separating the NC and carbon section from the airframe, an
apogee deployment.

Alternately you could stack all the bridle aft of the chute and put one BP charge and match at the tank head end for two stage deployment.
At apogee the rocket separates at the carbon tube - tank head end coupler.

The second BP charge and match would be forward of the chute.  When the low level deployment takes place the chute
on its own bridle would be blown from the carbon section.  In all cases, the carbon section stays attached to the NC as
you will see in subsequent photos.


 


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