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Sliding the rocket onto the launch rail

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In a week we'll go to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for Balls 25, the Wild West event of rocketry. My son will launch his level 3 rocket and hopefully pass the level 3 certification. Knock on wood!

 

This is a photo from June this year when we went to the Black Rock Desert for the Mudroc rocket launch event. Steve Jurvetson launched his fiberglass rocket called Warped Reality. The 12 feet level 3 rocket had a big N1560 motor and went supersonic, reaching over 19,000 feet in a few seconds. I took this shot while Steve, his son and my son put the rocket on the launch rail.

 

Here is a video of this rocket launch: bit.ly/29sJkjh

 

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the curves.

 

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8973_hd1bal1b

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Uploaded on September 18, 2016
Taken on June 19, 2016