Model, Launch System, Flying Rocket

This is a retail package of L.M. Cox Company with a launch pad, launch controller, and associated items for flying rocket models. Built of metal and plastic, the pad is used to launch flying rocket models. The long, metal rail on the pad goes through the guide rings on the model to insure that it flies vertically. The ignition wires of the controller are placed in the solid propellant motor in the aft end of the model. When the other wires of the controller are connected to batteries and the operating button depressed, the current ignites the propellant which lifts the model from the launch pad.

G. Harry Stine, an American pioneer in the field of flying rocket models, donated this artifact to the Museum in 1973.