Posted by WinField on 07/27/06 03:13

Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:

> You could do what we did, and just bought fireworks...
>
> 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....
>
> ;-)

Doesn't sound like you actually tested what you allude to above.

As a kid, my friend and I strapped an Estes rocket engine to a
balsa-wood glider, thinking it would really soar.

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.

Science does surprise. Even kids.

- winfield

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