Canon EOS 5D
ƒ/4
105 mm
1/5,000
640

My son built this cool rocket that pops out a fixed wing at apogee and adjusts the tail for balanced gliding back to the ground in a broad spiral.

On this flight, a sticky launch rod sent it off, but the glider still worked fine with a high-speed horizontal deployment.

2 responses to “Scissor-wing Rocket”

  1. just like them old x-wing paper airplanes!

  2. My only try was when i was 9 with a sulphur filled aluminum candy tube. It did actually take off, but it was at the time hard to come up with more sulphur, as it needed to be cut off from the matches. 🙂

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