My brother lost one after its chute deployment failed and we looked for it everywhere. We searched for it one last time the next morning and found it stuck straight in the ground. We'd both first thought it was a lawn sprinkler.
In the 70s my shop class teacher had us build model rockets. We actually rolled the paper for the fuselage tubes. We launched them over the football field. No mayhem or anything, just a really fun day flying rockets. This project was such a hit, the teacher (a retired aeronautical engineer - he had something to do with the F6F Hell Cat) decided we would build rocket gliders. This involved more tube rolling for the motor mount, and cutting file folders into delta wings. These things flew horribly! They mostly spun wildly in varying corkscrew patterns. I recall one managed to climb out, only to roll inverted, then nose in. But it was all great fun.
