That's do'able.
Posted on 04/06/2016 12:38:47 PM PDT by Gamecock
Authorities say two Southern California high school students attached a homemade model rocket to a skateboard before it exploded and killed one of the teens. The blast Monday evening in the courtyard of a Ventura County elementary school killed 18-year-old Bernard Moon, the AP reports. His 17-year-old friend was injured and is in stable condition. Sheriff's Detective Timothy Loman says the teens built the rocket and attached it to the skateboard as a propulsion device. Authorities say the experiment wasn't sanctioned by the elementary school. The teens attended Thousand Oaks High School, which said in a Twitter post: "Our hearts are broken."
Investigators will try to piece together the homemade rocket. Capt. Garo Kuredjian says the two high school seniors apparently were experimenting with "some sort of chemical combination" before the accidental blast Monday. Investigators will try to determine the size and shape of the rocket, which blew apart. Kuredjian says the fuel wasn't propane, as officials initially reported.
Cherry Point, North Carolina.........sometime in the 60’s a couple of Marines strapped TO A JEEP a couple of JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) bottles of the type used to help B47 and other type aircraft get airborne.
The flight was a success....the landing not so much.
That's do'able.
There are a lot of things I look back on and ask myself “Why am I still alive?”.
I did some really stupid things with model rockets in my teens.
It’s a wonder I’m still here.................
“Authorities say the experiment wasn’t sanctioned by the elementary school.”
This is why American students are falling behind the rest of the industrialized world in math and science. Had those kids, when they were in elementary school been offered a class in Jet Propulsion much like the classes taught at Cal Tech, this disaster would not have occurred.
“We are professionally trained stuntmen. Do not try to duplicate these scenes at home”
-— Wile E Coyote
I’m shocked.
I did model rockets when I was a kid, and the engines came 3 to a blue tube and cost 3/75¢. [They arrived via the US Mail!] Now the damn things are 3/$10+! Vern Estes would not approve...
“18-year-old Bernard Moon, the AP reports. His 17-year-old friend.”
“Authorities say the experiment wasn’t sanctioned by the elementary school.”
A 18 and 17 year old in Elementary school? Shouldn’t they have been in High School by that age? Just saying.
Dam, son... you shouldna done that!
Well, he doesn’t look that much like Wile E Coyote....
hey everybody, watch this!
Well, at least we know this doesn’t work.
They were in high school. They tried out their skateboard at an elementary school.
That is a stupid comment they reported made.
This was not ‘stupid’. It was risky.
We did this stuff every day growing up. Lucky to be in one piece. Not stupid.
Another report I heard said the rocket engine was made from “a small propane cylinder.” And that the cylinder/engine exploded in one of the kid’s hand.
And for our bikes - trying to get two "D" big engines to ignite at the same time was really hard to do. 
But when we finally got the ignition thing down we were able to ride past the girls and light them up - it wouldnt make us go much faster but for 5 seconds it made a great sound and a bunch of smoke!
That’s pretty awesome...!!
My boys did that too. Difficult to watch them every moment at that age.
Always looking for a thrill.
# 7 ~ “Stupidity is rapidly becoming the national pastime.”
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
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