Monday, 5 February 2024

Jumping for Joy

Italy's Quercetti is well known for rockets and parachutes.

Their JR21 marketed Fireball XL5 has featured here many times, as has the Mach-1 and TOR.

These toys incorporated a small blow moulded parachutist and chute.


Eolo's much bigger set had a similar jumping astronaut cum pilot.



This bended knee jumper became a staple. Here's a more recent bag of three. 

I think you can still get this toy in some form.

It's become a party favour!





3 comments:

  1. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I was lucky enough to own the Quercetti Fireball XL5, and I loved it to pieces. I had forgotten about the two nose cones being molded in lemon yellow, though! SFZ

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  2. A manual to go with it
    https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54787.msg2564522#msg2564522

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