Consumer Reports Cites CAP

[sardak]

On the inside back cover of "Consumer Reports" magazine are shown "Goofs, Glitches and Gotchas" in terms of bad advertising or product descriptions.  In the latest edition, December 2007, they show a toy rocket launching kit that generates hydrogen fuel which can "launch a rocket into orbit!"

The magazine's justification for questioning this is:
Our quick scan of a document entitled "Civil Air Patrol Intro into Space: Placing a Satellite in Orbit" leads to the conclusion that it requires a tad more thrust than could be mustered by this toy rocket which goes "200 feet into the sky."

Of all the sources that one could cite to prove this toy can't really go into orbit, they chose CAP.  Way to go AE!

Mike

[Capt Rivera]

Would you mind scanning it...

Edit: Never mind:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/selling/selling-it-december-2007/selling-it-ov_1.htm?resultPageIndex=1&resultIndex=1&searchTerm=civil%20air%20patrol

The document I think they are referring to...

http://atg.cap.gov/ATG/STK_LessonPlans/LP3.pdf