Rocket, Flying Model, Arcon

This is a flying Arcon rocket model built by Galactic Enterprises in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa fins, rubber nose, and a plastic parachute. A solid propellant rocket motor propels the model, and then at the end of the vertical flight it forces the release of a parachute. The model is then retrieved and can be used again. The model is launched from a launch pad, with a hand-held launch controller being used to ignite the motor. The model was donated by G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models, in 1973.