Is it possible to have a blue or pink smoke trail from a rocket as a birth announcement?
Not my baby asking for a friend.
Not my baby asking for a friend.
Is it possible to have a blue or pink smoke trail from a rocket as a birth announcement?
Not my baby asking for a friend.
One of our fliers recently used a big pan of baby powder and (I think) colored chalk dust under a rocket to do this at liftoff. We learned that baby powder (which is mostly cornstarch) is fairly flammable when dispersed, so the results were more visually interesting than expected No bad outcome, but I'm not sure I would recommend it.
One of our fliers recently used a big pan of baby powder and (I think) colored chalk dust under a rocket to do this at liftoff. We learned that baby powder (which is mostly cornstarch) is fairly flammable when dispersed, so the results were more visually interesting than expected No bad outcome, but I'm not sure I would recommend it.
but those burn and require a pull ignition (and HAZ shipping).
From time to time I've thought about making a rocket that carried a "smoke bomb" in the nosecone, so that a ton of smoke poured out on the way up. I know there are rules against carrying fireworks but since these things don't produce flame or sparks, only smoke, I wonder if they'd be allowed?
If so, you could try something like this too:
https://genderrevealco.com/products/wire-pull-gender-reveal-smoke-bombs
Buy a few and test out how long before ignition you'd have to pull the wire to start the smoke, and how visible the smoke is on the way up. If the fins on the rocket were angled slightly so that the rocket spun, and if the smoke from the rocket motor were white, you'd end up with a column of white smoke with a blue or pink smoke spiral around it. That would look really cool even if there wasn't an announcement associated with it.
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