Red Leader, This is Gold Leader...
So, it seems that X-Wing wasn't the only craft from a galaxy far, far away clawing its way toward the sky over the weekend. A model Y-Wing also went up at the same model-rocketry event, with much the same results. Hey, nobody ever said those ships could really fly, only that they're cool-looking. There's a video clip of the flight -- including some footage from an onboard camera -- at Gizmodo. (I couldn't figure out how to embed the clip, and none of the clips I found on YouTube were as good as the Gizmodo one.) Go check it out! And have a look at the construction gallery, too!
Comments
I don't get it. The models themselves were really cool. Either these guys didn't care about retrieving the models, or they WAY overestimated how they would perform in the air. But never mind; it's fun to watch stuff go boom.
Posted by: Cranky Robert | October 11, 2007 12:45 AM
I suspect they had a pretty good idea these ships wouldn't hold up -- I knew a guy who was into this scale of model rocketry, and I gather from his stories that even nice smooth rocket-shaped rockets go boom quite often. It's not as easy to make them work as you might think. I think that's part of the thrill for these guys... ;)
Posted by: jason | October 11, 2007 9:23 AM