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Here's an easy way to make tiny rockets with these few items:
- » a book of matches
- » a straight pin
- » a few small pieces of foil
- » a paper clip
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Here's how you do it:
- tear a match out of the book.
- lay the pin along the match so the tip of the pin touches the head of the match.
- wrap the match in a piece of the foil, but carefully, sealing it well and pressing it on to the contour of the match under the foil (it's the exhaust tube... right?).
- remove the pin [duh?]
- bend the paper clip so it's useless for holding paper, but has a nice angle for launching a paper-match rocket and set it on the ground, pointed toward wet grass (ideal) carefully, carefully...
- light a match and hold it under the foil-wrapped head of the match -- mine have gone as far as twenty-five feet.
- be careful! (safety glasses are a good idea...)
since I have now published something on the internet about pyrotechnics and projectiles and rockets, I could be considered a "terr*r*st."
or am I merely a guy who was once a five-year-old kid who read about it in The Great International Paper Airplane Book?