Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Centuri Engineering
- Summary
- This is a Swift flying model boost glider made by Centuri Engineering in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. The model is made balsa and plastic. 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 was donated by G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models, in 1973.
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Inventory Number
- A19930809000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Wood
- Paint
- Plastic
- Adhesive
- Balsa
- Dimensions
- 14 1/8" x 11 1/4" x 1 1/4" (updated 11/4/2011)
- 14 inches long, 11 inches wide at wings, and 8 grams in weight
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19930809000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv926e0cae6-fba7-400e-9860-302ab29a3dbb
