Whoooooosh When Rocket Ships Were Really A Blast

Whoooooosh when Rocket Ships were Really a BlastPlayboy's do-it-yourself Rocket ShipBack in those halcyon days before World War Two, cartoonists and movie special-effects men creating rocket ships for Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were followers of the gingerbread school of design. Thus, you had spacecraft that looked like the ones pictured here--with fins and vents and all kinds of silly gizmos attached to them. But they did have a certain individualistic charm--unlike today's jobs, which are bu...