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hey Joe

The apollo 8 hangs on the ceiling and flies around, cool toy

I had another one of these years ago, and you are supposed to be able to stick the red spool to the ceiling using the sheet of plastic with adhesive, reel off a length of clear fishing line, & hook the end to something (horizontal) then hang the rocket from it & it will "fly" the length of the fishing line. We could never get it to work, (no yaw control) so we just hung it from a vertical line, then it flew in kinda wobbly, kinda circular orbits. Still cool, and batteries (2 AA) lasted a long time.  This is the only boxed example I've ever seen, and one of two unbroken ones. I think most got broken falling from the ceiling when the adhesive patch failed.

Can't help with the above question, but thought I'd post this:

Astounding..... might be the coolest thing you've designed & built yet.....wow.....

I like it, the "guts" lend a very organic look to him.

Very Nice! Obviously your junk box has a lot less junk in it than mine....