Launching a scratch-built, still somewhat crude boost glider from my Centuri Power Tower launch pad in northeast Switzerland, in July of 1978. Once again, the 38 years that have elapsed in the meantime have unfortunately caused me to forget the name and specifics of this design, other than the fact that the propulsion section was designed for 18 mm motors.
I am also no longer certain whether this boost glider managed to fly successfully, although I built a vaguely similar (but improved) model two years later, in order to enter it for the 8th Swiss Modellraketen-Flugtag model rocket competition. That later design performed quite satisfactorily.
Photography by Hans Hofer.
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