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06/07/2004 Entry: "Matchstick Rockets"

It's great to also have smaller groups like the one on Mondays. They're a bit more advanced, and also have advanced fun. For example, today's lesson. First we got locked out and went on classroom safari. Then we had a nice presentation, then we made matchstick rockets. Then we launched them.
Needless to say, we had a large time.
Oh yeah, there's a written assignment too.

Some rockets just fizzled out while others flew over three meters horizontally.

I learned how to do this from these sites below:

Nasa

Bizarre Stuff -- this one has a good variation building the rocket right onto the paperclip launchpad.

matchstickrockets.com

More stuff.

About.com --The History of the Match

How Matches Work

Bowman -- Bloody good fun with trajectory.