Star Leopard started life as a 7.5 inch standard ARM. Believe it or not, not a single part of that kit is still flying. The liftoff picture at the top of this page is on a prototype, "Kosdon East M2000 skidmark" this was before it was certified as the M2200, and before Kosdon East became Animal Motor Works. Starleopard has been rebuilt at least 5 times and is now completely fiberglass, with a completely G12 booster section, and the rest being G10. The rocket has flown 15-20 times since it was first flown in 2000, and has been on all M motors, or equivalent impulse.
Starleopard started life as a 7.5" diameter Standard ARM. It eventually lost the strakes and gained some length, to become the easily recognizable rocket it is now!
The dark green variety Starleopard gets loaded onto the pad with a Kosdon M3200 Fast clone. The motor performed well...
Unfortunately, the motor was too much for the rocket's thin G10 fins.
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Red Starleopard's Career starts here. It is shown here loaded with a manic cluster of one K1100, 2X I435s, 2x I300s, and 2x H242s
Starleopard flies on an AMW M2200 Skidmark
Video by Tom Binford
Starleopard was once again faced with a repair. Afterwords, it was painted Blue
Starleopard takes off on a KBA M3500 Redline
Starleopard flies on the M3500. Sadly, Jim has no data on this flight, and doesn't know how high it went, his oversized drogue chucked out the main when it opened hard, had it not done that, the main would have never come out
Video by Tom Binford
Starleopard boosts on a 98mm research motor. This was Jim's highest flight with this rocket. Unfortunately, Jim's altimeters seem to have failed, no parachutes were deployed, and Starleopard tumbled in. Upon impact, three of the four 1/4 G10 fins popped loose, and the airframe around the fin slots was ripped up.
Starleopard boosts on a Loki M3464 Blue to an altitude of 6,300 feet. A new record for this beast!
Photo Credit: David McCann