On Saturday, a man in Maryland successfully launched a 1:10 scale model of a Saturn V Rocket. The Saturn V is the rocket that took NASA astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo missions. The launch of the 36 foot tall rocket also breaks the record for the largest model rocket ever launched.- via
wiredFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by dalucero.
Loved the parachutes - they were just the colour I remember from all those years ago. Except I must have seen it in black and white. Odd how the memory plays tricks.
I know that where I live, you need permission for even far smaller rockets. This mastodont would never get permission to even be built up, let alone that it also would be launched...
Cool that it landed upright like that. Must have had a really heavy bottom.
That's some expensive hobby, I bet.
I guess they were going for aethetics, not pure performance.