A staple at American airshows is the 3 jet engined beast of Les Shockley, he puts on a show, then puts a plane on the trailer, from NAS Willow Grove PA
This music video is from TRA's LDRS 23, the world's largest amateur rocket launch which is a yearly event held by the Tripoli Rocket Association. The music by Doylestown PA's CalmInSight is almost as fast as the machines.
Hypertek hybrid rocket motors use a fill stem instead of a fill line, the X system allows the stem to drop at ignition instead of forcing the rocket to work it's way off.
This was a test of a rocket project which flew in the Nevada desert on three P impulse motors, each motor exceeding 20,500 newton seconds. An Estes D12 has 20 newton seconds. Ignition was thermite and the test was a loud success.
Ed Miller owns the largest monocopter so far, burning a J to a J and finishing up with a K. It didn't behave as normal but it may have had something to do with the last scene.
After months of building and preparation anticipation was high for Kevin's beautifully prepared V-2 rocket. In .1 second it was all a pile of wreckage with nothing salvageable. And to the motor builder, you know who you are.
This is the ending of the LDRS 23 music video. Experimental day had a few 'anomalies' not able to leave the pad.....and that wonderful B-17 which landed at the launch starts the video with a show pass.
MDRA will be celebrating ESL 100 in August of 06, this is a slow motion look at a flight from ESL 78. Tom Heir brings 3 6000ns sparkies up to pressure for a very realistic looking flight.