Shock diamonds in an Estes 'E' motor captured at 100,000 frames/sec

[mlytle0]

 

[mlytle0]

This is was done by a group associated with a Youtube channel that often does edgy stuff with pyrotechnics and uses extremely expensive high end cameras to capture the dynamics of these things..

 

[Tom]

That's some crazy cool stuff!

 

[Blast it Tom!]

I know a fellow that did this stuff professionally for ejection seats, automobile and aircraft crash testing, and so forth. You wonder how on earth you can capture images at that speed - one thing he told me, "You need a lot of light!"

 

[cls]

All of his stuff is great!

 

[smstachwick]

Wow, how have I never seen that before?