Jadebox... then you would have cringed at the modified rockets my friends and I used to come up with for shytes and grins... can you say sealed nosecone, booster engine and black powder?
It goes BOOM!
Never launched it from anything r/c... but we did launch from a helium balloon... vertically.... but we used a launch rod, m'kay?
(no rednecks were hurt in the experimentation that occurred... unless you count feelings and crop damage)