X-Wing

[NetSnake]

coooool!

Andy Woerner and his crazy rocketeer friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. Yes, this is a real X-Wing powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings. It blasts off in California next week, and we talked with Andy about the project, and how they expect it will do. All the details and a full construction gallery after the jump.

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video here

[cjolley]

LOL

My favorite sort of Bizarro World NASA quote:

...it's likely we will have a structural failure in the wings, but we are hoping it will hold.

[ZokesPro]

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?t=63204

Cool avatar guy already posted it.

But tis cool none the less.

[Elie]

it was cool!!!

But it looked like it was put together with Krazy glue, just seeing how it disintegrated half way through.

Good start though.