Flight + Death of the X-Wing

[Aukiman]

You may remember the original article about the group building the rocket powered X-Wing in the US. well here's the vid of what happened :)

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[All2sweet]

WAY COOL!!!!! I WANT ONE

[sabi]

who would have thought that boxy thing would crash hey? lol
nice effort but they should have done some tests before building the public version

[Mephiston]

i'm thinking balsa wood wasn't the best material to be building the frame out of ;)

[Smash]

lmao that was so cool!!:hithere:

What the hell did they launch at the end?

[mythbag]

i'm thinking balsa wood wasn't the best material to be building the frame out of ;)

hehe Mephiston, understatement of the year :D!!
wheeeeeee see the wings fold up lol

[MatTy!!]

sif spend all that time making a rocket like that, out of the crappiest materials on the planet and trying to launch it.

just proves that some star wars fans are absolute retards.

-lashed

[Aukiman]

they should have made a death star!

[ash]

arrrgh, all that time down the drain. I suppose even big space agencies go through this kind of heartache tho even with the best planning. Look how many satellites have been lost thru fault launches, some not even leaving the launch pad!

[orsum]

such a pity it took so long to build, they should have phased those rockets

[biskits]

I think a millenium falcon would have looked much more spectacular, although probably harder to build :p maybe George Lucas can donate for the next one!