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Here's a great liftoff shot of the new Pro54 K1440. The rocket is Pete Lilja's scratch built Little John, 5.5" x 79" and 17 pounds liftoff weight. Note the length of the motor plume compared to the rocket's length - here the motor is producing nearly 400lb thrust! Pete says it went 6200' "really fast".
Photo by Brent Hill.
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Jim Wilkerson's Orange Crush lifting off on a Pro98 M795 moonburner to a new
Tripoli M altitude record of 35,300 feet. The flight took place at BALLS in
Black Rock, Nevada, on Sept. 17, 2005, and flight data was captured on a
Loki/Ozark Aerospace ARTS recording altimeter. The rocket reached a peak
velocity of mach 1.5. Jim plans another flight on the CTI N1100 moonburner
later in 2006. We'll be watching for flight data on that shot - if all goes
well he should exceed 40,000'!
Photo by Tsolo T. Tsolo / Rocketshots |
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Here's Dave Morey's rather coloful Colossal Crayon two stage rocket lifting off under the power of a Pro38 J330. Note the water
bucket standing by and the dry grass - good thinking!
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Drag race time - here's a photo by Joe Roberts
that should settle the score as to who won!
Josh Drummond and Alex Immerman fought it out
here using Pro38 I motor power.
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Heres a picture sent to us all the way from
Oz by Dave Wilkins. Nice liftoff shot showing
the
distict shadow from the Smoky Sam Pro38's contrail.
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Here's a great liftoff shot sent to us by
Pete Davy of Pete's Rockets fame in the UK.
This was one of two airshow demonstration launches
of this half-scale Patriot using a cluster of
three Pro38 J400 Smoky Sam motors.
Love that smoke cloud.
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Attached is a wonderful photo taken by Sean
Haggerty of the first launch of the University
School of Milwaukee NASA SLI Team, sponsored by
CTI. The rocket is 12 1/2 feet long, 6 3/16 inches
in diameter and weighs 41 lbs unloaded. It is
flying on a 5 motor cluster of 1 central Pro54
K660 surrounded by 4 Pro38 J400SS's. The launch
took place March 26, 2005 at Bong Recreational
State Park in Wisconsin and the rocket hit 5229
feet, just 51 feet (less than 1%) shy of the goal
of 5280 feet.
SLI, or the Student Launch Initiative, is a
program sponsored by NASA to
encouraged youth to be involved in the aerospace
industry. The goal of the
project is to launch a scientific payload to
exactly 5,280 feet AGL and
recover it safely with an intact payload.
Thank you for sponsoring the USM SLI team.
Charles Marks
Parent mentor
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Jim Wilkerson graciously accepted the offer
to demonstrate the new Pro98 M520 moonburner in
this minimum diameter altitude shot at BALLS last
fall. The 14 second burn mid-M class motor pushed
the rocket just shy of 26,000 feet! C'mon Jim,
I bet you can crack 30,000 with the M795... |
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Max Baines, our western Canada Pro-X dealer,
also gets to fly rockets sometimes. Here's his
upscaled Gemini-DC dodging the
moon under Pro98 M2505 power at the ROC Lake Alberta
launch site where LDRS24 will be held. The plan
was to ignite two outboard J400 Smoky Sams. However,
things did not go as planned with the avionics
and this was to be the rocket's last mission.
It now rests in pieces...
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Here's David Roy's Skunkworks 5.5"
Nike Smoke lifting off under Pro54 K660 power.
We had to include this shot with all those cool
mach diamonds.
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Static test firing of the Pro150 O5100 White
Thunder motor, at Cesaroni Technology Incorporated's
facility in Gormley, Ontario, Canada. The O5100
is currently the largest industry-certified high
power rocket motor available. No photographers
were harmed taking this photograph. |
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Mike McBurnett's stretched PML Patriot heading
for a beautiful blue sky under Pro38 J330 power. |
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While the rocket shot is a little grainy,
that backdrop belongs on a postcard. These guys
from British Columbia have some of the neatest background scenery! This
is Brock Johnston's LOC IV under G69 power near
Cranbrook, BC.
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Scott West's IQSY Tomahawk heads for a clear
blue sky at a CAR launch in ROC Lake Alberta,
with a prototype Pro98 Smoky Sam M motor belching
out enough black smoke to cause an eclipse. 98mm
Smoky Sam motors are impractical for the US market
because the extremely dense propellant results
in individual propellant grains way over the DOT
limit for 1.4C shipping. But up here in the Great
White North we are not hampered by such restrictions... |
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Here's Vincent Chichak's boosted dart project,
definitely getting a healthy boost from another
prototype motor, a ~2000Ns Pro54 K1320 White Thunder.
Another CAR launch in ROC Lake Alberta. The interstage
coupler turned out to be the weak link and while
the flight recovered safely, the dart only reached
a little over 9000 feet. Later he flew the dart
alone on a Pro38 I540 to a Canadian I altitude
record. Keep trying Vince! |
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Jason Ware's 7.5X upscale Colonial Viper
on its maiden flight, under Pro75 M1400 power.
Check out the debris thrown up by the motor's
exhaust. |
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Here's a great upscale project by Jason
Ware (r) and Dave Schaefer (l), a 7.5X scale model
of the Estes Colonial Viper.
They used Pro75 M1400 power for the first flight.
You can see details of this project and a launch
video at http://www.galaxyphoto.com/rockets/viper8.html
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