G.I. Joe ICBM

A small simple rocket made of aluminium foil, a match, and 2 needles all in about 45 seconds if you are fast

Step 1: Gather Materials

Materials:
Scissiors
Aluminium Foil
2 needles
Matches (preferibly the paper ones, they have a larger head and weigh less, bud wooden ones kinda work too)
Lighter

Comments

[jjjjake]

for some reason mine dont fly they just shoot flames out the back

[jjjjake]

cooooool

[Noodly0ne]

These are great! They didn't go as far as i had hoped, but they were still pretty awesome! I used a half book of matches on this.

[Arbitror]

"DOND PICK IT UP, IT IS HOT! you wouldnt want to get a boo boo. " Boo Boo! LOL!

[fingers]

why cant begginners get COMPLETE instructions or am i that dumb.. after your little foil rocket is ready to go.is it attached to something else like a launch pad or another solid device that goes up with it?? just dont get it..how about some help

[microman171]

What you do is once the foil is on then you put it on somehting to hold it horizontal or at say 45 degrees. It doesnt work to well for me if it is vertical. I dont think the match goes up too. Im sure just the foil and burnt head goes up. I could be wrong

[antirem]

:D ill have to play with this and see if i can add a fuse and set em all off!

[freakboy]

do you have license to buy a fuse.

[laxrulz16]

hey i got mine to go about ten, twelve feet so nice job 10/10 stars ~laxrulz

[jakee117]

kool

[street104]

omg ive been makin different versions of the match rocket and none of them had worked till this one (and the one on the link that mrbob1000 gave) and it was awesome. Thanks for makin my dream of makin rockets that work come true :)

[pmac93]

the only one i've been able to launch are the ones I posted here

[Whaleman]

i think i need to fine tune my skills of making thees, they went anywere from -1/2 inch to 2 ft

[Beelzebub]

Yea, go ahead. I have been doing this scince i was a kid, i think my dad taught me or something, i think it is pretty cool to see that it has already been done.

[sparklerbomb]

so far iive tryed this design and another one but neiter of them work ive followed the design exactly and they just go up in a puff of smoke please help me cause itll be soo spectactular if it works lol.....

[Beelzebub]

wow that is almost wierd how close that link there is to my instructible.

[sparklerbomb]

so far iive tryed this design and another one but neiter of them work ive followed the design exactly and they just go up in a puff of smoke please help me cause itll be soo spectactular if it works lol.....

[E398]

Thats cool is it possible to make it even bigger ones??

[tjsdaname]

ya it is just add more match heads

[tjsdaname]

ya ive made thim with 35 match heads

[leonthestmasta]

What can we use for a launch pad?

[mustang]

DUDE this kicks ass

[Beelzebub]

Just hold a lighter up to the foil where the match head is and wait

[E398]

how do u light it??

[E398]

Thats cool is it possible to make it even bigger ones??

[joshuajahr]

ohhh fun me likey!

[Beelzebub]

front half

[lucapaooka]

so exactally where do u light it at the front or at the back *improving the world 1 pedal rotation at a time

[PetervG]

Ok, i've taken all the pictures.

[PetervG]

I'm going to go make this instructable right now!

[Beelzebub]

http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/33488/Make_a_PaperMatch_Rocket.html

whell... guess it had been done.

[gigman]

One day i went thorugh like an entire roll of foil trying to make one of these fly. I made like 50 and got like 5 of them to fly more then 1'

[PetervG]

Do you mind if I make a revision of this? Not because it's not good, just because I made about 100 wooden match rockets in the past year. I perfected it with wooden matches.

[trebuchet03]

I first saw this in NASA's website.... these are really fun and I admit, I have gotten into match rocket wars with my friends (by the time they hit you, they are quite cool and did not burn at all). The only bad thing that came of it was a few charcoal stains on someone white T-shirt :P

[mrbob1000]

there are several veriations to this

http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/thermo/thermo.html#rockets

but yours seems really cool because you can get some spin out of them