Battle scars from supersonic flight
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We are on the way to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada again. This time for the Mudroc rocket event organized by Aeropac. Can't wait to shoot and launch rockets again!
Last September we went to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend Balls 24, a crazy rocket launch event with huge rockets. Some people call this event the Super Bowl of rocketry, others the Wild Wild West 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 rocket had an excellent flight reaching over 100k altitude. I do not have any more info on this rocket. I took this shot the next day early in the morning at sunrise. You can see peeled off paint - battle scars - from the supersonic flight.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC7433_4_5_hdr3bal1c
Battle scars from supersonic flight
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, get beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
We are on the way to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada again. This time for the Mudroc rocket event organized by Aeropac. Can't wait to shoot and launch rockets again!
Last September we went to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend Balls 24, a crazy rocket launch event with huge rockets. Some people call this event the Super Bowl of rocketry, others the Wild Wild West 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 rocket had an excellent flight reaching over 100k altitude. I do not have any more info on this rocket. I took this shot the next day early in the morning at sunrise. You can see peeled off paint - battle scars - from the supersonic flight.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC7433_4_5_hdr3bal1c