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Doesn't look that impressive without scale, but that orange bit at the top holds a full-scale crash test dummy. And the rocket engine is a home-made hybrid, paraffin/LOX. Went supersonic, even. The veered off course and had to be shutdown, but... Not bad for a couple of guys working on donations, hope and ingenuity.
Pretty dang hard to make those *model engines* be able to *gimble* ...
They hoped that movable fins with rollerons would do the trick, but no joy. Currently, they're working on movable vanes in the rocket exhaust, V2-style. And, because they thought it might be fun, they're now delving into liquid-fueled engines.
But it'd didn't seem like it went up that high. Perhaps the size is misleading though.
Saturn V is absolutely huge, it's longer than a football field.
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