The glider looks like those plastic bottle rockets I had as a kid, you know, where you fill the rocket with water then use a pump to fill it with air causing it to launch.
What I remember is a newspaper article that Neil Armstrong's son managed to shoot himself in the eye with one.
Now that I'm older and wiser, I'm sure he was probably egged on by some Algor type "journalist".
The first show we saw, once Dad had installed everything, was "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe!" I was thrilled and Mom and Dad delighted that this 12 episode movie had been spliced together.
In the era before Star Wars toys at WalMart my concept of a rocket ship was a peach pit. I carried it around in my pocket and drew endless pictures which, (I still have some books with my ad hoc art) look very much like those Rutan renderings.
I was 9 when I mixed my first batch of gunpowder. The metal pipe rocket ship just spun around on the ground and never achieved lift off! Dad made me get rid of the gun powder and I poured it down the sewer. A passerby threw a match into the sewer, by accident, and the fire dept had to respond! Boy the hair brush got alot of action!
I got one of the first water rockets and a space geek was born, Launched!!!