This is a flying rocket cutaway model built by an unknown manufacturer in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa fins, balsa nosecone, a plastic parachute, and clear plastic covering the cutaway section. It shows how a solid propellant rocket motor propels a flying model, and then at the end of vertical flight forces the release of a parachute. The flying model is then retrieved and can be used again. Flying models are launched from a launch pad, with a hand-held launch controller being used to ignite the motor.

G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models, donated this cutaway rocket model to the Smithsonian in 1973.