blackbrandt
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Anyone have any really funny rocket stories?
caveduck said:At the US internats team trials the day after NARAM-21 ended (Houston, 1979), an RCBG pod with a FSI F7 (9 seconds of black powder terror!!) detached from its glider on the pad and landsharked *directly* at the launch control table and proceeded to chase LCO Chris Tavares all over the place. It's amazing how long one of those motors would flop around, and it seemed to have a homing beacon on Chris...the most hysterical thing I've ever seen in rocketry, nothing else has ever come close.
I wasn't there either but I've heard the story several times from someone who was - but I am not going to reveal my sources. I thought it was an Ellis Mountain I69? I donno, when I was told the story I was laughing so hard I may have missed a few details.
Danville launches were *apparently* quite a wild event. I learned a few things from those Danville stories:
- J motors fly quite well when taped to a broom handle. Hotel staff are quite willing to provide said handles for those flights provided no one reveals the source of the handles to hotel management.
- Prison guards get VERY cranky when you near their fence - even if you are looking for a rocket.
- Tripoli used to call board meetings to order with a ....
...Ok, I'm going to shut up now before I get in trouble.
At the US internats team trials the day after NARAM-21 ended (Houston, 1979), an RCBG pod with a FSI F7 (9 seconds of black powder terror!!) detached from its glider on the pad and landsharked *directly* at the launch control table and proceeded to chase LCO Chris Tavares all over the place. It's amazing how long one of those motors would flop around, and it seemed to have a homing beacon on Chris...the most hysterical thing I've ever seen in rocketry, nothing else has ever come close.
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