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Posted by beav on 07/27/06 14:00
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:13:03 -0700, WinField <doghouse@operamail.com>
wrote:
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>Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
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>> You could do what we did, and just bought fireworks...
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>> The local toy store by me used to sell balsa kits for making gliders.
>> Of course, if you replaced the BODY of the glider with a rocket....
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>> ;-)
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>Doesn't sound like you actually tested what you allude to above.
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>As a kid, my friend and I strapped an Estes rocket engine to a
>balsa-wood glider, thinking it would really soar.
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>What we got instead was a rather large "ball" of tiny balsa-wood chips
>raining gently down in front of us. We never did see the glider get
>shredded ... just phhttt, and a shower of fluttering chips.
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>Science does surprise. Even kids.
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> - winfield
heh heh heh. we put a balsa nosecap on an engine, strapped a stick to
the side of it (it looked like the War of 1812 congreve rocket) and
lit it. it flew amazingly poorly. we didn't expect it to boomerang
back at us.
what DO kids do today? my nephew is a junior in HS, likes Chemistry a
lot (got an 800 on his chem SAT II) ! AND DOESN'T HAVE A CHEMISTRY
SET! next time he's over, i'll have to blow the dust off my, <ahem>
"boom box" AND TAUNT HIM.
probably got that 800 because he knew his lab safety procedures....
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