I had seen Herb Desind flying Cinerocs at a few NARAMs in the 1970's, but had not gotten to know him.
This story is from 1988, when I was doing the Sunguidance R&D project. I wanted to have onboard footage, and the only practical way was by using a Cineroc.
But by then Estes had long dropped the Cineroc and the company that loaded and developed the film no longer existed.
I contacted Herb to see if he could help out. I sent him 5 empty Cineroc film cartridges (each held 10 feet of film IIRC), which he loaded with film and sent to me. After doing the flights, I sent the film back. He then took the exposed film, spliced it together into a 50 foot roll. Then he sent it to some division of Kodak that processed broken Super-8 film, this is how he got al this film processed. Then he got it back from Kodak, and sent it to me.
He watched it first, of course. And said it was some of the most impressive Cineroc footage hed ever seen. Like
.. coming from HIM, that was something!
You can see the Cineroc footage in the Sunguidance video below. The flights involving the Cineroc, with the film Herb helped with, are from about 2:20 to 8:40. .
Of course, the above story therefore has an automatic connection with Mike Dorffler too, since he designed the Cineroc.
[video=youtube;I6ZFSSBQNT0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ZFSSBQNT0[/video]