Would this actually happen??

[Guest mikez009]

I was reading over a entry on a website my friend sent me to and it said that

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" Fiction:

in the movie, when they o'connor family tries to make a get away in their airship, they turn on the rocket attached to the basket they were on and gets away

Fact:

aside from the fact that it would be almost impossible to get rockets in the 1930s, if the rockets where actually turned on, since the ropes attached to the ballon is flexible, they would start to spin in a circle instead of moving foward."

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can this actually happen?? i'm abit skeptical

the link is here

http://www.merdz.com/comments.asp?v=0&id=71