You gotta have balls at Balls
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We are just back from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. We had a blast at Balls 24, a crazy rocket launch event with huge rockets - pun intended. Some people call this event the Super Bowl of rocketry. Over 300 people attended, there were teams from as far as England and Egypt. Many rockets were built in the garage from scratch, including the solid propellant for the motors.
Quite a number of rockets came down ballistic, either with some problems with the electronics, structural problems at high g-forces and supersonic speed, or parachute deployment problems. You gotta have balls to be there - the probability to get hit by a rocket is tiny but not zero.
This is Richard King's 12 foot rocket, taking of on a sparky N-motor. The propellant contains titanium, which produces the white sparkles. This rocket probably went up around 15,000 feet. Even though there was high wind, the flight was picture perfect.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC7667_hdr1bal1c
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UPDATE 2015-09-29: Flight specs by the owner of the rocket:
DX3 "Massive" lengthened an extra foot to a total of 13' to accommodate the N3400 Skidmark motor. Altitude was 18K' coming down about two miles out. Used a 12" ballistic drogue and 8' main. Loaded weight was 66 lbs. Normally flies on full M motors, so for the N added the removable foot of airframe and two pounds of lead in the nose.
You gotta have balls at Balls
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, get beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
We are just back from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. We had a blast at Balls 24, a crazy rocket launch event with huge rockets - pun intended. Some people call this event the Super Bowl of rocketry. Over 300 people attended, there were teams from as far as England and Egypt. Many rockets were built in the garage from scratch, including the solid propellant for the motors.
Quite a number of rockets came down ballistic, either with some problems with the electronics, structural problems at high g-forces and supersonic speed, or parachute deployment problems. You gotta have balls to be there - the probability to get hit by a rocket is tiny but not zero.
This is Richard King's 12 foot rocket, taking of on a sparky N-motor. The propellant contains titanium, which produces the white sparkles. This rocket probably went up around 15,000 feet. Even though there was high wind, the flight was picture perfect.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC7667_hdr1bal1c
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UPDATE 2015-09-29: Flight specs by the owner of the rocket:
DX3 "Massive" lengthened an extra foot to a total of 13' to accommodate the N3400 Skidmark motor. Altitude was 18K' coming down about two miles out. Used a 12" ballistic drogue and 8' main. Loaded weight was 66 lbs. Normally flies on full M motors, so for the N added the removable foot of airframe and two pounds of lead in the nose.