The Blåhaj Rocket

Credit: Photo by the author The Blåhaj Rocket 2026-09-28T03:29:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 I’m not going to explain the thing about IKEA’s blue stuffed shark toy. There’s a lot of text, some of it written by actual people, on it. I’d bought a second Launch Lab Bullet Bobby XXL kit1 because the parachute on my first one failed to deploy2 and had landed hard at a farm outside of Fresno. The hard landing broke a fin and put a dent in the airframe.3 Rather than replicating the kit’s paint scheme again, I wanted to try something different. Why not a Blåhaj? The colors aren’t quite right. I’m using spray paint instead of an airbrush and you use the best you can find. I also got some nifty decals from Talen Lee. Sharks don’t usually show up in the desert. At least not a couple of weeks after Burning Man is over. The gills are pinstriping tape and I made the mouth on a vinyl cutter. Last weekend, I flew it at XPRS, and this time the parachute worked! The name of…