World Record Model Rocket Launch On Apollo Anniversery

I am thinking this might be a NAR violation.

Seems quite appropriate on this red letter day.

Jim

RocketGeekInFL said:

am thinking this might be a NAR violation.

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Which rule?

Regardless, this was carried out by a pyrotechnics guy (the same that does the USSRC's fireworks). Call it a pyro event?

Nytrunner said:

Which rule?

Regardless, this was carried out by a pyrotechnics guy (the same that does the USSRC's fireworks). Call it a pyro event?

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Do you know how they lit off that many flights at once? The misfire picture on the other thread looked a bit like they had a spider type system, but 5000 rockets would be an awfully big spider. Way past Tolkien, even.

Indeed! Professional firing system , 5 banks (in the blue center hubs), each bank had 10 racks, each rack had 100 rockets (arranged in 5 circles like the Sat5 engines)

Each rack was 100 e-matches in series. The nozzle was sat directly over the e-match (or just misaligned in the case of my souvenir). They did a 300 shot test launch for proof of concept. As a result, they taped coffee stirs to the fin unit that stuck in a hole opposite the launch rod, so the nozzle was less likely to be disturbed.

As a voluntary spectator, I felt quite safe during the event. The stands were farther away than was the case at the Rocketes4theCure event which had them raining down amongst folks.

Video blocked. Dang it.

Nevermind, only blocked from watching within the thread, I can follow the link to YouTube and watch it there.

RocketGeekInFL said:

I am thinking this might be a NAR violation.

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Who cares.

It was a great event, and everyone had fun safely.

When bureaucracy gets in the way of doing the right thing, it gets bypassed.

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RocketGeekInFL said:

I am thinking this might be a NAR violation.

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Why? Read the safety code: "When conducting a simultaneous launch of more than ten rockets I will observe a safe distance of 1.5 times the maximum expected altitude of any launched rocket." As long as you do this and all the rockets are low-power, this seems perfectly legal.

That was amazing. To get that many to lift at the same moment is a pretty good feat!

I'd say "special dispensation for an event conducted under the supervision of pyrotechnics professionals."

That is, don't try this at home yourself. But it's fun to watch the video.