It's Official Southern Thunder 2008

[Johnnie]

All great shots.

I think somebody told me that the lone photographer on the range was associtated with Rockets magazine. I will be curious to see those pics as well.

The photographer was Mark Canepa of Extreme Rocketry...look for the article in the fall.

Johnnie

 

[LaneKG]

I have some ST2008 pics at https://sears572.com/gallery/ST2008. The one below is John Hansel's 10 inch Nike Smoke on an AMW M1730 Skidmark.



Thanks to HARA & MC2 for a great event. Congrats again on the L3 Johnnie.

Greg

 

[Johnnie]

Thanks to HARA & MC2 for a great event. Congrats again on the L3 Johnnie.

Greg

Great pics Greg, thanks for sharing them...you have a PM...and thanks for the kudos (Level III)

Johnnie

 

[agrippo]

I have some ST2008 pics at https://sears572.com/gallery/ST2008.

Thanks to HARA & MC2 for a great event. Congrats again on the L3 Johnnie.

Greg

It was a great event, the Tennessee folks did another fine job. Just one correction though, the picture 24 of 54 (Black and White rocket) is called Cawcajun and was flown by Andrew and Crystal Grippo from Louisiana.

It flew on a Loki M2550 Blue motor to 13,000'.

Andrew

 

[BayouRat]

Here are my photos from Southern Thunder 2008. If you see one you want just let me know your e-mail address and I will send you the full version.

https://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=5pw5h2x.8y94kqw1&x=0&y=szid18&localeid=en_US

 

[Rocketry nut]

Here are the last of the teaser shots my friend sent me.

Gizmo drag race

Nike Hercules

Our Firehawk on an I211 racing to 2568ft.

I have to sort through mine, but here is one I took. I believe it's an L1400 skid.

 

[rocketkyle]

I finally got all of my videos edited and converted. I ended up getting 49 flights. Now for the lengthy process of uploading them to Youtube...

 

[BayouRat]

I have some ST2008 pics at https://sears572.com/gallery/ST2008.
Greg

Number 40 belongs to Whitney Richard. It's a 4x upscale Estes Astron Alpha.

 

[rocketkyle]

Here are my videos. There is 2 or 3 that I missed completely so I didn't bother uploading them. If you know any of the unknowns please do tell. They are somewhat in alphabetical order. If anyone wants the hi res video of any of these, drop me a PM with your email address and I'll send it to you.

Sterling Edmunds K800BB
Andrew Grippo K185W
Andrew Grippo L930
Andrew Grippo M2550
Auburn USLI L666SK
Bob Haas K555SK
Bob Haas Big Nuke
Bob Haas Concept 75 K555SK
Bob Haas Got Color? M1850GG
Bob Haas K670GG
Bob Haas M1730SK
Chris Crews L1400SK
Chris Short N2020
Chris Short N3300
Chuck Pierce M1850GG
Craig Kuchenmeister I211W
Darryl Hankes M2030MG
Doug Knight K550W
Gary Dickenson K555SK
Gizmo drag race
Greg Lane M2550
Little Dog drag race
Rocketry Nut K550W
Intimidator 4 drag race
Joey Wright N2700BB
Joey Wright unknown
John Hansel M1730SK
Johnnie Paul M1882 1
Johnnie Paul M1882 2
Kevin Cornelius M1350
Kevin Cornelius M1350 onboard video
Kevin Cornelius K475 and 2x G61W
Kyle Cornelius J365SK
Lee ??? Patriot M2030MG
Max Gray unknown
MC2's Coyote M2500GG
Mike Sig??? K550W
Mike Sig??? K270W
Mike Z I66
Randy M J570W
Steve Temple M2200SK
Steve Temple J135W
unknown 1
unknown 2
Gary Dickinson 3x I300T
Gary Dickinson 3x I211W
unknown Honest John K530SS
Scott Taylor XST Triangle J365SK
Walt Stafford 9,000NS Mr. Clean M

Kyle

 

[FROB]

...Look at this rocket...a serious piece of 'eye candy'

WOW! that is the coolest thing I've ever seen!
Truly wicked!
Anyone know who made it and anything else about the rocket?

 

[kaos2]

The builder said that Giant Leap is going to make this rocket available as a kit some time in the future.

 

[BayouRat]

WOW! that is the coolest thing I've ever seen!
Truly wicked!
Anyone know who made it and anything else about the rocket?

That is the "XST Triangle Rocket" built by Scott Taylor of Tripoli Louisiana. It looks as good as it flys!!!

Rumor has it that it will be offered as a kit soon by Giant Leap.

 

[BayouRat]

Here it is! My on-board video from Southern Thunder 2008!

https://media.putfile.com/On-Board-Rocket-Cam-at-Southern-Thunder-2008

 

[FROB]

Awesome! - better get my deposit in right away eh?
Any idea what it weights, what motor mount and particular motor it flew on to how high?
Single or dual deploy, where's the altimeter bay if dual-capable?
sorry for all the Q's, but i gotta get me one of these...

 

[kaos2]

Here's my low definition video of Johnnie Paul's successful L3 flight.

Johnnie Paul's L3 Flight

I muted the sound on part of the video because someone next to me was running a dremel during the flight.

 

[rocketkyle]

Awesome! - better get my deposit in right away eh?
Any idea what it weights, what motor mount and particular motor it flew on to how high?
Single or dual deploy, where's the altimeter bay if dual-capable?
sorry for all the Q's, but i gotta get me one of these...

Near the bottom of the list of my videos above, there is one that says "XST Triangle J365SK". That is this rocket. Check it out, it flies very nicely!

 

[Johnnie]

Here's my low definition video of Johnnie Paul's successful L3 flight.

Johnnie Paul's L3 Flight

I muted the sound on part of the video because someone next to me was running a dremel during the flight.

Rich that was a kick butt video!! I have copied the link onto my build thread...thank you!

Johnnie

 

[Rocketry nut]

My friend, Mathias Boland, said he took 330 pics during the weekend. He has posted a lot already on his website. Whether he'll post more or not I don't know yet because he said some weren't worth posting. So anyway enjoy these for now https://homepage.mac.com/mjboland/PhotoAlbum3.html

I'll have to help him out with the captions sometime soon.

 

[uncle_vanya]

Another something on a K550...

Doug Knight's "Little Crayon"...

It used to be called "Big Crayon" until he saw a truly big crayon...

 

[rocketkyle]

Here's my dad's Blue Maxx onboard video from ST after I edited it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvNkLioKws

 

[Kaycee]

Here's my dad's Blue Maxx onboard video from ST after I edited it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvNkLioKws

This was my first flight with on-board video and I learned alot. The boost and drogue separation was nominal, but during main deployment, the ejection charge fogged the lens. I already have a plan to prevent this next flight.

I had a Garmin Rino GPS on-board, so I was able to 'talk' to Blue Maxx at all times, from count-down to touchdown in real-time. It was fun.

The characters in the video are myself, Kyle and Mark Canepa.

Thanks to Kyle for the edit.

 

[Stymye]

posted too soon, you answered my question, I thought you had an fm radio onboard catching the lco on the PA's fm transmitter

 

[dknight]

Doug Knight's "Little Crayon"...

It used to be called "Big Crayon" until he saw a truly big crayon...

Brad, You got that right. Thanks for the pic. That's better than mine.

Doug

 

[Ford Prefect]

If anyone Got a picture of my Big Purple Crayon Finally Taking off please let me know. I also Missed my L2 a D Region Tomahawk with blue n gold fins.

Cj

 

[BayouRat]

This was my first flight with on-board video and I learned alot. The boost and drogue separation was nominal, but during main deployment, the ejection charge fogged the lens. I already have a plan to prevent this next flight.

I had a Garmin Rino GPS on-board, so I was able to 'talk' to Blue Maxx at all times, from count-down to touchdown in real-time. It was fun.

The characters in the video are myself, Kyle and Mark Canepa.

Thanks to Kyle for the edit.

What was the altitude on that flight?
I'm dizzy now :rotflol:
Cool flight! What kind of camera was that.

 

[Johnnie]

I have some shots left that I thought I would post...mainly of the different fliers 'sites'

After all, it is about us, and you...

Like this guy...Smallest car with the most densely packed rocket group ever!

How about this vehicle...the least packed of any vehicle in it's size...

 

[Johnnie]

Some of the fliers liked to just 'chill-out' from time to time...

Sometimes it was a team effort to make a project work...

 

[Johnnie]

A few needed lots of space...

And others needed very little...

 

[Johnnie]

Some of the rockets had paint jobs that you could see into for days...weeks even!

Everyone was proud of their displays...and should be!

 

[Johnnie]

There was so much to see at Southern Thunder, and so many people to say "hi" to, that the weekend seemed to last for three days...oh wait...

Some people even brought their pets...take this pure bred Bull Pup for instance...house trained and all!