Worlds Smallest Flying Fish Fuse Rocket

Learn how to make a small sky rockets using flying fish fuse.

Materials Needed

• Dried Grass Stalk
• Flying Fish Fuse
• Launch tube, small
• Scissors
• Scotch Tape

One night I was sitting on Ken Musgrave's back deck playing with silver flying fish fuse. We were lighting little one-inch long pieces of the flying fish fuse and throwing them out into the night sky.

After throwing several thousand or so pieces of flying fish fuse Ken says, "look at this." He had a piece of dried grass stalk lying on the table. Using scissors, he snipped a piece about 2 inches long to make his sky rocket stick. Then he cut a length of silver flying fish fuse the same length as the width of the scotch tape he had on the table, about 3/4 inch. Using a really short length of scotch tape, perhaps 1/4 long or less, he taped the piece of flying fish fuse to the top end of the sky rocket stick. He then stood the sky rocket up in a hollow drift from a 6-pound stinger missile sky rocket tool kit. You light it from the bottom, of course. Et voila! You have the world's smallest sky rocket.

Tips: The grass stalk was really thin, a millimeter or less. It was brown, not green and lightweight. It may take some experimenting to get the right length sky rocket stick. Make it too long and your sky rocket will do a kamikaze dive. The flying fish fuse was totally covered by the tape, creating a quickmatch fuse kind of sleeve. Without the "sleeve", the sky rockets didn't fly. We didn't leave any flying fish fuse sticking out at all, and just kind of touched the flame to the bottom of the tape sleeve. The 6-pound stinger missile sky rocket drift made an excellent sky rocket launch tube. Plastic straws also make good cheap sky rocket launch tubes but they will melt a little.

To learn more about making sky rockets and fun flying fish fuse projects read these:

"Visco Fuse Sky Rockets"
"Black Powder Sky Rockets"
"Stinger Missile Sky Rockets"
"Flying Fish Fuse Mine"