I think it's a really small hose with a sort of needle type attachment, much like you would use on a basket ball, with a hand pump that inflates crickets? :rofl:
Pumpin' Jiminy!!!:shock:
I think it's a really small hose with a sort of needle type attachment, much like you would use on a basket ball, with a hand pump that inflates crickets? :rofl:
Not really too much to it. Rocket land skarked and went through the tire. Rocket was a 54mm body with IIRC, a 38 mm mount. Vehicle was a BLM Jeep.There was a guy named Pius Morizumi with Aeropac? at Black Rock he managed to stick a rocket under power through both walls of a truck tire...I guess it's now a lawn ornament in Gerlach. (Rumor was it was a BATF vehicle)
I would LOVE to hear the whole story attached to this.
I saw the same thing from a very experienced modeler who had done a very nice kit bash on a two-stage 13mm rocket. Booster had the delay, sustainer had zero delay. Climbed nicely, arced over to about a 45 degree angle downward, fired sustainer.Now you fellas got me going...
I was LCO once for a Team1 launch when a father/son duo came up with a 2 stage D to D rocket. 3..2..1..Up part's good..arcs over..coming in ballistic..upper stage lights going straight down thus sending the rocket to terra firma post-haste. I thought about it a minute and asked the dad, "Did you put the D12-0 in the upper stage?"
Dad says, "uhhhh"
9 year old son says, "I TOLD YOU THAT WAS WRONG!"
I'm going to shamelessly bump this thread again because I know at least one person has had some funny story since the last post.
Oh I've heard about scrap_daddy as well.
In my early rocketry days my friends and I used to launch near a number of cattle fields and, more often than not, would have to retrieve our rockets from the fields. It was no big deal, as the cows were fairly disinterested in our activities. One day, however, I happened to get halfway across a pasture and realized that there was a bull present - and he was ambling towards me. I quickly made it to a tree and waited until he wandered off. I wasn't amused, but everyone on the other side of the fence got a good laugh.
...also made the comment that he had 10 rockets and that was a gracious plenty to own. He wasn't going to build any more than 10 rockets.
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