My cousin and I were probably ten or eleven when we discovered match stick rockets.
(I think this was just after matches were invented!)
We experimented with different style of matches and different foil combinations until we found the perfect combination.
The combo probably won't work today 'cause all the stuff is changed, here is what we used:
Ohio Blue Tip kitchen matches (the tiny wooden ones without the white tip...all blue!)
The correct foil is important too...the only one we found to work correctly everytime was the very thin foil used on Kit-Kat bars back in the early 60's
You had to peal the tin foil off of the wax paper backing (carefully) and we actually were able to use the foil more than once.
We did this inside a lean-too shed behind the chucken coop. It had a cement floor.
You should have seen my mother's face when she walked in...a cloud of phosforous smoke, burnt spent "rockets" everywere, Kit Kat wrappers covering the floor, and chocolat all over our faces!
Oh yea...burns all over our clothes 'cause we were at oposite corners of the shed...shooting at each other.
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