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Rocket Launching of May
4, 2014 |
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While we were gone it stopped raining.
Chrissy and Matt set up the table.
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The group on the left showed up and
launched a bunch of rockets. I missed most of the flights
because I was looking for the Silverfish. |
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This rocket belongs to Barry McGarvey. |
Matt and the Alpha. |
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Matt's Executioner.
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The Journeyman II. |
The Alpha, Red Flare and
the Journeyman II. The Executioner is in the
background. |
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This is Rich. He got that rocket for
five bucks. |
The original owner is deceased. It was very impressive! |
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After we watched Rich launch his big
rocket we set out to recover ours. |
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Safe landing. The Alpha just missed a cow flop! |
We couldn't find the Executioner,
then it was spotted in a tree. |
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| Funny thing about that tree.
The tree is part of a line of trees separating two
big pastures. In the line of trees is a barbed wire
fence. The rocket landed in the top of the tree.
With the way the wind was blowing, the rocket was
probably moving sideways at the same speed it was
descending. If the rocket had gone a tad higher or
if the wind was blowing just a bit harder the rocket
would have cleared the trees. But no. Of course not. |
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Here is the movie taken by the Silverfish.
The flight lasted 50 seconds. The rocket was recovered 1/3
mile away.
To reach that distance, the wind had to carry the rocket and
parachute approximately 25 miles per hour.
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The strange things "growing" in the
beginning of the movie are rain drops falling on the out of
focus blast deflector. |
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