Post A Rocket Related (Only) Image That Makes You LOL

[jazzviper1]

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Now that's pod racing!

 

[KenECoyote]

When you really want to be known as "rocketman"...

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

When you really want to be known as "rocketman"...

How I did that on a budget..

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[jqavins]

An old one, but might be new to some folks...

Deviations are corrected by the use of the turbo encabulator.

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[bad_idea]

Something I made a while back (a shameless variation of something I saw regarding a different subject):

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

How Many Rocket Parts

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[Velocity Aerospace]

My jack-o-lantern for Halloween a couple years ago

 

[ljwilley]

 

[bad_idea]

I guess it's safe to say that Bill Amend is one of us then.

 

[Wayco]

I got more laughs out of post #46 than a month of reading "Post a pic that makes you laugh".
Thank you ljwilley!

 

[BEC]

I guess it's safe to say that Bill Amend is one of us then.

Clearly. Here are a couple more:

 

[Donnager]

Nothing like it when the rocket goes up, and the tracker goes beep,...beep,...beep,...beep,...bee..... Silence.

Then, you get the yard sale on the dirt. I don't usually take pictures of my failures, or I'd post my last Archer that hit the ground spectacularly.

And, apparently I didn't read enough Foxtrot.

 

[Rob Campbell]

 

[ljwilley]

 

[ljwilley]

 

[ljwilley]

 

[BEC]

I have that one with the umbrella somewhere.

Also, I'm trying to recall the name of the Centuri (I think it was) launch pad setup that worked the way it is shown in that strip.

And clearly I need to get in the habit of looking at FoxTrot on line. I missed that one with the "cluster" built with the use of a hot glue gun (YIKE!)...it ran on the Sunday we were off to the WSMC it looks like, so I had the Seattle Times on hold for delivery.

 

[ljwilley]

 

[jqavins]

Also, I'm trying to recall the name of the Centuri (I think it was) launch pad setup that worked the way it is shown in that strip.

Do you mean the Power Pad?

It's not a relay box, but with the rocket sitting on top of the big, beefy battery it's 90% of the way there.

 

[SolarYellow]

There's a recently active thread on YORF about those systems.

 

[BEC]

Do you mean the Power Pad?
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It's not a relay box, but with the rocket sitting on top of the big, beefy battery it's 90% of the way there.

No, that’s not what I mean. Look at the cartoon. There is a lantern battery on the ground near the tripod pad and connected to it with a short lead. The setup is as if the Centuri Lectra-Line 1 was connected to an early Porta Pad but so far I haven’t been able to find a pad setup quite like what Bill Amend fairly consistently draws. It isn’t MPC or MRC or Cox setup either as near as I can find in a brief look around the interwebs….

 

[jqavins]

Do you know of such a thing in real life? My own experience, though extremely limited, includes only one launch system with a lantern battery. Perhaps Amend made it up? It would be more clear what's going on to readers who don't know the hobby; "Oh, they're using that battery to launch the rocket", which might be less obvious otherwise.