For those of you who don’t know this already – someone out there has taken oodles of time and $7,000 to build a near-life-size model of an X-wing fighter, complete with class-M rocket engines.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-12/st_xwing
Video of the flight is here:
…now for those conspiracy theorists out there, here’s the REAL reason the X-wing crashed: