X-Wing Model Makes Maiden Flight

Take a few Star Wars fans, give them a little money and a lot of inspiration, then throw in one wild idea. What do you get? An X-Wing Fighter.

Amateur rocketeer Andy Woerner led the 2,500-hour, $7,000 effort to get the thing airborne. His 40-person crew of doctors, mail carriers, construction workers, and other Star Wars obsessives labored without a blueprint, guided mainly by memories of George Lucas' magnum opus, scaled-up measurements taken from a 15-inch model, and their own high midichlorian counts.

If you want to skip the introduction, the rockets fire at around the 2:50 mark. They stop firing by 3:00, so you can probably tell how well the flight went.

Source: Wired

TAGS: Flight, Geeks, Star Wars, Xwing
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