Object Details
- Summary
- This is a Swift flying model boost glider made by Centuri Engineering in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. The model is made balsa and plastic. A solid propellant rocket motor propels the model, and then at the end of the vertical flight it forces the release of a parachute. The model is then retrieved and can be used again. The model was donated by G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models, in 1973.
- Data Source
- National Air and Space Museum
- Manufacturer
- Centuri Engineering
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Materials
- Wood
- Paint
- Plastic
- Adhesive
- Balsa
- Dimensions
- 14 1/8" x 11 1/4" x 1 1/4" (updated 11/4/2011)
- 14 inches long, 11 inches wide at wings, and 8 grams in weight
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
