Best/favourite flames on a rocket

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Here are a few, Sorry I can't credit the photographers.


AT J500MG
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AT M1315WL
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AMW M1850GG

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AT M1550RL

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EX N3500WB

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EX O4300BD

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GaryT, that M1850GG is really nice. Too bad its out of my level though. Way too big. What does the GG stand for?

Well it won't be for long lol That's the Animal Motor Works (AMW) M1850GG Green Gorilla. As most know they are a real PIA to light and this one was no exception.
 
Bat-Mite I know it's too bad that it's a CATO, but the rocket was ok and is going to be launched again in a few weeks, and I just think it's funny that the flame and the rocket are separate.
Well, yours was really cool, but it wasn't actually a cato. It just spit the motor, right?
 
I'm fascinated by the small motors canted outwards on the outside.

Vernier rockets to control roll I believe

am fascinated by SpaceX getting all of the Heavy's engines to ignite simultaneously.

Easy, just get 81 valves to actuate at the right moment for ignition (and we won't discuss how many valves work before those B) )
 
That would be an unstable rocket. Did they forget the nose weight?

No, it had plenty of nose weight. I didn’t RSO this one, but helped the person get it on the rail and hooked up. If anything, it was heavier in the nose than it needed to be.
My initial thought was that those little fins weren’t generating enough lift to counteract the nose tipping due to weathercocking, but the thing flew straight up for about 150 - 200’ before it tipped so it had plenty of velocity. It didn’t shred a fin either.
I didn’t get a chance to look at it post flight, but am wondering if there was a nozzle problem. Could also potentially have been the camera mount generating a side vector — I shot this on fast burst mode (8 frames/sec) and there was absolutely no spin showing in the sequence.
Too bad because the flyer had done a very nice job 3D printing the pieces and put a ton of work into it.
 
No, it had plenty of nose weight. I didn’t RSO this one, but helped the person get it on the rail and hooked up. If anything, it was heavier in the nose than it needed to be.
My initial thought was that those little fins weren’t generating enough lift to counteract the nose tipping due to weathercocking, but the thing flew straight up for about 150 - 200’ before it tipped so it had plenty of velocity. It didn’t shred a fin either.
I didn’t get a chance to look at it post flight, but am wondering if there was a nozzle problem. Could also potentially have been the camera mount generating a side vector — I shot this on fast burst mode (8 frames/sec) and there was absolutely no spin showing in the sequence.
Too bad because the flyer had done a very nice job 3D printing the pieces and put a ton of work into it.
Lots of reasonable guesses. A frustrating thing about this hobby is that sometimes we just never find out for sure.

I lots my L3 rocket after several flights when it core sampled. Smashed everything to smithereens. It had fully redundant electronics, as well as motor back-up. It was a cold day.

Never got a drogue charge. Primary failed, secondary failed, motor back-up failed. The main deployed while it was coming in ballistic and just ripped away.

There was nothing left to clue me in as to what happened. Even if both batteries failed in the cold, the motor back-up should have succeeded. And then, if the batteries failed, why did the main deploy?

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.
 
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