DIY Crayon Rockets:)

[goodboy]

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Born Again Rocketeer's DIY Crayon Rockets Who says rockets should just be black and white?
Commercial spaceflight may just be taking off, but private rocket enthusiasts have been launching their home kit variants for decades. One of the more colorful examples comes from John Coker, a self-described "born again rocketeer" who launched this amazing pack of stylized Crayon rockets.

A few years ago, Coker was working with a Loc/Precision I-ROC kit when a friend remarked that the I-ROC resembled a crayon. The idea sparked Coker's imagination, and he decided to build a pack of Crayon rockets that would launch from a box that reflected the usual yellow-and-green Crayon box design.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/born-again-rocketeers-diy-crayon-rockets

[tridim]

1. Hehe, now if he would have used crayon wax for the fuel, that would have been something.

[HeresyLives]

2. Crayola will probably sue him. n/t

[progressoid]

3. Maybe not.

According to his website, he actually wrote to them...

Binney & Smith, the makers of Crayola(TM) products, have a web site. I also wrote to them for a promotional pack and they sent me a nice folder of stuff including a large picture of the first pack of Crayons made (1903).

[progressoid]

4. Check out his website for all the details.

Pretty cool... http://www.jcrocket.com/crayons.shtml

[Rincewind]

5. Nice, but

most people don't custom make parts, they just go buy a crayon bank and convert it into a rocket.