CaptainVideo
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Toy rockets with parachute deployment are rare. Love the design of that rocket. I found a video of it here.I had a Quercetti Mach X in my youth. You can still find them occasionally on ebay (I did!).
Hah, I went out and found the same video. It seems like the Mach X as shown in prfesser's post has a more elaborate parachute timer and a more aggressive launcher than the one in that video. Unfortunately I can't find any video of the Mach X itself.Toy rockets with parachute deployment are rare. Love the design of that rocket. I found a video of it here.
It's in Italian, but still interesting to watch.
I launched a old console TV on L-motor..... It was ugly.
The one I have is somewhat brittle, and the rubber bands are dryrotted, otherwise I might try refurbishing it and flying it. Not surprising, it's 40-50 years old. The newer ones are more flexible plastic (I have one of those too) and they probably took the double-handled sling out of production because of kids hitting themselves in the face.Hah, I went out and found the same video. It seems like the Mach X as shown in prfesser's post has a more elaborate parachute timer and a more aggressive launcher than the one in that video. Unfortunately I can't find any video of the Mach X itself.
Very cool!
Let us not forget:
Doesn't really count as a rocket, but when I was a kid, we would take an expired CO2 cartridge from a BB gun, cut the nozzle off of it with a hacksaw, stuff it full of paper match heads, stick three out of the back as a "fuse", stick the whole thing in a steel pipe, light the "fuse," and let 'er rip. Very exciting.
First rocket i saw was an arrow with a co2 cartridge filled with paper match heads.
I was about 6 some older kids launched it we all ran like hell no idea where it came down.
I guess because we actually talked to each other.I wonder, now, how we all learned about these kinds of foolhardy projects back in the days of mimeographs and rotary telephones?
I had a ton of those too... but my favorite was this one, which used citric acid powder mixed with water and sodium bicarbonate as the propellants. You put the powder in a well at the bottom, closed it up, turned it rightside up and put it on the launcher. After counting to 30 so the CO2 could build up, you pulled a string and the hook that held it on the launcher let go. They went impressively high... maybe 300'.
I had a ton of those too... but my favorite was this one, which used citric acid powder mixed with water and sodium bicarbonate as the propellants. You put the powder in a well at the bottom, closed it up, turned it rightside up and put it on the launcher. After counting to 30 so the CO2 could build up, you pulled a string and the hook that held it on the launcher let go. They went impressively high... maybe 300'.
Aside from pressurized water rockets in the 1960s. I discovered a tiny rocket one could make with safety matches, tiny squares of tin foil, a pin, and a paper clip launcher...All outlined in The Great Paper Airplane Book from the 1970s.
... My brother and I found the aluminum-foil-paper-match rocket in the Great International Paper Airplane Book and stunk up the house when I was maybe 7 years old.
Did the match-head and foil rockets in junior high-ish...
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I did the foil on a match ones, and really got pretty good with them for a while.
Replying to a necro-thread here, I had to drop in after seeing this post in Google.I had a Quercetti Mach X in my youth. You can still find them occasionally on ebay (I did!).
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