Object Details
- Summary
- This is a flying rocket cutaway model built by an unknown manufacturer in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa fins, balsa nosecone, a plastic parachute, and clear plastic covering the cutaway section. It shows how a solid propellant rocket motor propels a flying model, and then at the end of vertical flight forces the release of a parachute. The flying model is then retrieved and can be used again. Flying models are launched from a launch pad, with a hand-held launch controller being used to ignite the motor.
- G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models, donated this cutaway rocket model to the Smithsonian in 1973.
- Data Source
- National Air and Space Museum
- Manufacturer
- Estes Industries, Inc.
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Materials
- Plastic
- Wood
- Cotton
- Rubber
- Paint
- Dimensions
- 9 3/8" x 3 5/8" x 3/4"
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
