My, that's a big rocket

The sign-in station where the rockets are weighed and checked for safety

This smile never left his face all weekend...

this one here was to explode first...

i´m in love with a rocket
Oh, l´amour!...

Look at that smiiiiiiiiiiiiileeeeeeee! Didn´t know you can smile that much! 8-]

Uh! Another rocket!!!
;-)

Larry here is the big AeroTech retailer. Aerotech makes most of the commercial motors used in HPR.

Look.. Racing Stripes!

Best Motor Vendor out there.

ET is here to watch the rocket... you can see his shadow. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's him.

It had a beautiful launch on a N2000 motor. These motors leave a crater in the clay at takeoff. Moments earlier, a rocket shredded at Mach 2 on an L motor.

Click here for the rocketry photo set.

(As you go up the alphabet in motor sizes, each letter represents a successive doubling of total power (B is 2x A and so on). Estes mainly sells A, B and C motors, and some larger D and E sized ones as well. Aerotech Consumer Aerospace is the common source for F and G motors. For H and above, you have to be certified by NAR or Tripoli to buy one, and the motors are hand-assembled in reusable metal casings. I had to build an H motor and rocket, and launch and recover it successfully to get my Level 1 Cert.)

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Victor1 says:

Happiness.... is a warm rocket.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Automatt says:

awesome! what if you used 25 E's at once, soviet style?
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Ken Mitchell [deleted] says:

Whoah! That is a Big One.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

biotron says:

beyond Freud...! ;)
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Eric Olson says:

Wow, that is incredible. I am going to look and see if we have any meet up like that out here in the Northeast. My bet is that we don't since we lack the open desert. If anyone knows anything please let me know. The highest I have launched is a C motor but I am ready to move up after seeing those pics!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Automatt: I saw a video of a rocket with 256 Estes D engines. They used a pan of black powder underneath to try to light them all. It did not hold together, and the engines scattered like fireflies on crack.

eolson: you don't need a desert, or a license, for low and mid power launches (A-G engines). For a club near you, you might seach for NAR or Tripoli. Estes estimates that for their rockets alone, there have been 300 million launches in the U.S.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

benjiman says:

That is one big shit-eating grin! ;)

Good times!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Vanita says:

Remind me to mach you later.
'-}
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

heh...
It was great to have Victor there also taking pictures. He got me assembling the H motor with all of the propellant, timers, chute charges and the infamous o-rings....
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

RS Shared says:

"These motors leave a crater in the clay at takeoff." Gee, did you clean up the burn scar?
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Plenty of shovels... =)
No trash left behind is the goal.
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

neverCryWolf says:

Whoa. I've launched a "D" or two, but never godda play with a rocket THAT big!
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

RocketGuy says:

Sigh, I miss my rocket days. Will have at least one more run to black rock though, for my L2 Cert attempt. But it's an order or two of magnatude smaller than that beautiful beastie.
I have one J-350 just set aside for it. But now looking at that, wonder if I have an L3 in me or not...
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

I just posted some rocket video. You can see this one launch with a N2000 motor on Revver…

Automatt: speaking of Soviet-style cluster engines, check out this crazy N1 project, especially the bottom of the page...
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

borealnz says:

This looks like great fun, I guess the first commenter sums up your feelings about this perfectly :-)

Thanks for sharing in the "Happiness is..." theme at
The World Through My Eyes
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

sakichin says:

cool rocket!

The World Through My Eyes happiness theme
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

stormtroopercarlos says:

Dose any one know what size engin i would need for a 5 foot tall rocket that is made of plastic and ways about 5 pounds totally empty ?
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

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