"Children's toys reflect the age in which they.  Not too many years ago youngsters built model airplanes to emulate the daring men that flew in the skies overhead. Today we are in the age of missiles, and man is reaching into space with fiery projectiles."

Warren Benson wrote these sentences in the opening paragraph of his story entitled "Space-Age Toy" in the 1960 January-February issue of Workbench Model Shop magazine.  The article covers a new toy, a "safe one," called a "Rock-A-Chute," the original model rocket kit created by Orville Carlisle that started the hobby we all know and love so much. 

The article has been captured and converted to Adobe PDF format to share with the readers. Four pages in length, the article is 3,210K in size. To view the article, click here. You will need Adobe Reader to view the article. If you do not have Adobe Reader, a copy may be downloaded for free from the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/.

This segment of From The Archive was made possible by Mark Mayfield and LAUNCH Magazine, whose content contribution made it possible for Rocketry Planet to share this article with you. Part of the challenge we face in the hobby is the archival and preservation of these old sources of information useful to our hobby. Adobe PDF format makes a great medium for the collection and storage of these types of documents because of its portability and cross-platform approach.

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