Back in the seventies, when Airfix branched out to produce a variety of toys as well as kits, a favourite of mine was the good old Water Rocket. Essentially, a Saturn V shaped syringe, it was great fun during the summer months, shooting streams of water all over the garden. But, due to the nature of water, it was really hard to press the plunger in and invariably slipped out of my hands too!
They were produced in red and blue and amazingly, I managed to find a complete and unscathed blue on recently. 40+ years on, I was surprised to see how small it actually is, about 14" long as opposed to the idea I had that it was almost 2' long when I was 7!
Its emblazoned with the Words Water rocket in the classic seventies 'Countdown' font, that was synonymous with anything spacey back in the day!
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