Posted by J.F. Cornwall on 07/27/06 15:16

WinField wrote:
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>
> Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
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>> 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

That would have been the Mark I, which taught you about materials
strength, right? So what was the Mark II built with? ;-)

Jim

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