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Someone posted this on another rocketry forum. You may find it interesting, disturbing, or both of the above.

[video=youtube;mQkX_-zzBEc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQkX_-zzBEc&feature=player_embedded[/video]
 
adrian said:
Someone posted this on another rocketry forum. You may find it interesting, disturbing, or both of the above.
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The only thing I found disturbing was the person applauding at the end, unless it was the builder herself trying to make light of the event. I do enjoy the spectacle of a good CATO, but it also represents the loss of the product of many hours of someone's careful work and financial investment.

If someone has an old rocket that is a little "iffy" and wants to launch it one last time as a swansong, I'll applaud that (if it's done safely).

The video is fun to watch (because it's not my rocket and nobody was injured), a good reminder of why we need consistent and sound safety practices at every launch (even a solid and reliable rocket can become a plummeting fireball), and also perhaps informative: it would be good to know what motor it was and whether a cause was determined.

I love looking at launch videos, cato and successful. It's a way to enjoy the hobby for a few minutes when I should be working, and I also learn a lot. I wish there was a central repository or catalog of all the launch videos out there. Maybe we could all tag our youtube or vimeo posts with "#TRF" or something, to help with searches?
 
Put me as in the "disturbing" camp. I always hate to see all the hard work and money dissappear in a CATO.


All the best, James
 
That was sad, but increadible. I have seen two really nice MPR/HPR rockets destroyed by lawn dart, and noone laughed, clapped, or made a joke (even good natured) until the rocket made the first. Just bad form to be applauding and laughing at someone's destroyed work.

That was an increadible CATO though. If a rocket is going to go out, go out Viking funeral style.
 
Iffin' I had to guess , I would say that the delay element was burning on the pad . Once the motor fired up , the motor burned right through the delay. Not a CATO , but a sad way to end a rockets life . I had a
K185 do the same thing back in the day .

Eric
 
VERY COOL FLIGHT in person. It was a CTI motor that needs to be built in a very particular fashion. Gary T Chime in.
 
Oh my gosh!!
That was crazy!!
that was the most impressive CATO I've ever seen!
Horrible to see someone's rocket destroyed like that though.
 
Painful to watch, however I must say that if it's going to CATO, at least it did it properly, rather than being a launch pad burnthrough.
 
While I feel bad for the rockets owner, that was a pretty epic crash... :rolleyes:
Ive never seen a rocket catch on FIRE before!!
 
I really feel bad for the owner and her rocket.It looked like it was a nice bird. But watching the video it was better than watching fireworks going off. I have never seen one go like that before. Mine stayed on the pad and blew fire out the top after it blew the nose cone off.
 
Sad and impressive at the same time. I wouldn't want that to happen on a dry launch field!
 
I did not listen to the sound

I found the whole thing hilarious. I wish I had been the LCO. I'da had a good ole time with it. Its a hobby. IMO that was a 'Crowd Pleaser' for sure!

Awesome flight. I sure as hell would have been clapping. As long as no one get hurt, it a hobby. Stuff happens.
 
As I watched the start I was thinking "Oh, this is NOT going to end well...."
 
I'm assuming her nickname was not "Torch" until after the flight:rolleyes:......Heck of a way to earn a nickname. Yes, it's very sad to see someones hard work go up in flames like that but it's a given anytime you launch any rocket that you might not get it back or that it may sustain damage. I'm reminded of a saying from the RC hobby, "if you ain't crashin, you ain't flyin." Meaning that it's inevitable that something is going to go wrong eventually. Just glad no one was hurt.
 
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Lol. Oh Yeah. Especially RC Helis. If you ain't crashing, you ain't flying. Who hasn't seen a 1000 or 3 dollars go up in smoke? Or a debris field that would make the Mars Polar Lander proud? :y: It's all part of rocketry.

Some are just more entertaining than others. ;)
 
gdjsky01 said:
Lol. Oh Yeah. Especially RC Helis. If you ain't crashing, you ain't flying. Who hasn't seen a 1000 or 3 dollars go up in smoke? Or a debris field that would make the Mars Polar Lander proud? :y: It's all part of rocketry.

Some are just more entertaining than others. ;)
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Low blow Jeff- that hurt....
 
Well... I will say I have probably never seen a CATO behave like THAT. :y::y:

The chuffing on the pad lasted for 40 (!!) seconds, then when the main grain finally lit and it took off and ultimately nose dived, the flight itself lasted about 20 seconds, the motor pouring flame the whole way, then after it hit, it continued to burn for about 20 more seconds.

So all together the motor was pouring out fire pretty energetically for about 1:20. :surprised:

As someone else posted above, good thing it wasn't a dry-grass field or ... yikes.


Yeah I would think everyone would want to do a full postmortem on this one to see if they can figure out what the heck was going on. :facepalm:
 

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