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Model RocketA model rocket typically consists of a cardboard body tube with either plastic or balsa wood fins. Small tubes mounted to the body tube serve as launch lugs. The rocket is slid onto a launch rod which provides stability to the rocket until it is going fast enough for the fins to work.
Model rockets use commercially manufactured rocket motors. The motor is electrically ignited and includes an ejection charge which pressurizes the body tube at the end of the rocket's flight ejecting the nosecone and recovery system (usually a parachute or streamer).
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- Time Magazine published an article about "model rockets" being flown in Germany on December 14, 1931.
- on April 15, 1958 the Model Missiles, Inc. Aerobee-Hi Model Rocket Kit (001-A) was first produced for sale to the public. The kit included an Aerobee-Hi model rocket, a 36" long, 1/8" diameter launch rod, a blast deflector and six "Type A" Rock-A-Chute model rocket motors.
- An article about Menford L. Sutton's Super-Son model rocket appeared in an issue of Bell Helicopter News on April 18, 1958.
- CIAM chose Vrsac, Yugoslavia, as the site for the first World Championships in Model Rocketry to be held in 1970 on November 23, 1968.
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