Ed's Chinese MF-030 Universe Tin Rocket

Woodsy,

The Chinese MF-105 Jetliner reminded me of this. It's my MF-030 Universe Rocket. Back when I got this, these things were either being sold in sad shape or selling for outrageous prices but fortunately mine wasn't horribly priced.

 There is a story behind this: It's obvious this this disassembles for placement into the box, YET the box and the plane were placed separately into a much larger (huge) cardboard shipping box - pretty much unceremoniously dumped in there with a LOT of packing material. I was lucky that nothing was broken or damaged when it arrived from NYC!

Being a variation of the classic 'pointy tube with wings' spaceship design, there's enough differences to make it stand out from others. First of all, it has a cockpit. Most pointy tube spaceships forego any cockpit design and so one can believe this was intended as an Earth-to-orbit type vehicle taking off from a runway. 

There are two canards (those tiny wings just behind the cockpit), two main fins aft, and four smaller fins further aft. There is no shortage of fins on this but the overall effect is nice. It could have ended up looking clumsy but the restraint in size of the fins I think helps balance it out.

 There is a large front wheel and larger rear wheel friction motor. The wings are detachable and are placed on 'stubs' jutting out from the fuselage and that long nose needle retracts for storing into a shorter box. 

The needle does not latch in place though and care must be taken when placing the toy in the box. It measures 12" (30.48cm) L x 5 5/8" (14.28cm) W x 2 1/4" (5.71cm) H.

Anyone else got one?

From Vegas Air Field

Ed