Launch it: the Huffin' Hoopster

So, Launch It...hmmmm...

I've got a simple rocket I could do, or quite a good glider... but, which to do?

I know - I'll combine the two!

See the resulting video in step four.

Step 1 Materials

Not breaking with my track record, you don't need much for this Instructable:

Paper, sticky tape (you can save hands if it's in a dispenser), scissors and a narrow tube of some kind (a drinking straw is perfect).

Comments

[oldwolf]

I made one of these out of a 5 ft long core ( the cardboard tube left over after the gift warp is used) and some 3 in wide chip board. A paper airplane this sixe can easily fly over a fifty yards.

[freeza36]

i would do it if i were you. plus i wanna see it

[Kiteman]

Oh, post a picture of it, and I'll give you a patch!

[oldwolf]

I made it back in 76 when I worked at George S Carrington Co.

[Devrimm]

Thanks Kiteman !! It would be a good thing to use when my children are home !!

[drbill]

We were making these 45 years ago in the 2nd grade.

[Kiteman]

Nothing new under the Sun, as they say.

Simple stuff like this gets independently re-invented all the time.

[Lithium Rain]

Lol!

[lionmartyn333]

I like These plane and ur mind is just rocking.

[Kiteman]

Er, thank you?

[struckbyanarrow]

your letting your kids snort crack through a straw!!? oh wait i didn't read half the instructable nor the title lol

[X_D_3_M_1]

i think pvc would be bettert han a drinking straw. or a pen. or an air gun barrel

[suggsugg]

thats really cool, good luck

[ve2vfd]

Great idea! I'll have to remember that one for an activity for my troop when we restart in sept :) I loved the little movie, would have looked even cooler in black and white or sepia :) slow framerate + b/w + your kid with the welding gogles... would have been pretty nifty!

[Kiteman]

I tried your idea, and liked it. See the new version in step four.

[ve2vfd]

Wow! That looks amazing! I love it! Great job :)

[Kiteman]

Hmmm.....

[thewoodcarver]

Very cool , I will add this to the straw rockets the sixth grade kids get to make

[crapflinger]

i don't think those are OSHA rated saftey goggles :P heheh always fun to do stuff with the kids (now where's that rating button...those gremlins need an instructables shirt)

[Kiteman]

Firstly, #2 son's goggles are actually genuine safety goggles (surfaced from the back of a store cupboard at school).

Secondly, don't give them any ideas! If I win a T for one, the other will expect me to win another, of even pay for one!!

(Ah, soft beggar that I am, I'll probably end up buying them for Christmas anyway)

[T3h_Muffinator]

Awww... your kids are adorable!

Awesome work, Kiteman! You've done it again!

[Weissensteinburg]

hehe...#2 son always has the coolest clothes.

[Kiteman]

Thank you, rockyt & theformatter.

(I've added the appropriate Amazon links to step two as well)

[rockyt]

awesome instructable. My boys are going to love this!!

[theformatter]

Those poor kids, here they thought they were going to just have some fun with paper and tape and they ended up learning something in the process! Great instructable!