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They call them land sharks. And they keep you alert all weekend.
Here’s a P motor CATO from earlier. They are also affectionately called an Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
(photo by Ian Kluft)
16 responses to “LandShark”
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Took me awhile to figure out what the heck it was. It does make a pretty spiral though.
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Nice euphemism. Kind of like "Controlled flight into terrain" — FAA-speak for slamming into a mountain.
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"Unscheduled Rapid Disassembly" – ha ha 🙂 a bit like Pan Am’s classic "negative profit" expression!
i love politely optimistic circumlocutory acronyms like this… most policemen / women in the UK speak like this at all times 😉
now is the time i quit moaning about when the catherine wheel fell of the clothes pole in the garden…
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Extraordinary moment!
I flickrzenned this as one of the greats of Flickr!
Do post it to the Flickrzen Group pool, Tag it: flickrzen and tell it’s story, thank you!
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I just posted a video of a supersonic shred on Revver. The rocket screamed to Mach 2 on a L-size motor, and the pressure wave ripped the fins off making it temporarily unstable (corkscrew). You can hear the warning siren (something I was used to hearing by that point… =) and the chatter of people spotting the fins and other chunks as they rained down around us. A classic Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
Other videos:
• Russian Roar ending with “Remember, mortgage before motors.”
• Big Rocket with N2000 motor
• Videocam on Rocket launched near Stanford
• My first launch… with Baking Soda & Vinegar
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Champagne Moments, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
This is just an amazing shot
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Nice phenomenon…never seen something like that.
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Appetite for destruction!, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
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I love the way Americans use these descriptions of a prang, see in Wikipedia.. Below.
On June 15, 2016, Falcon 9 Flight 26 successfully delivered the Eutelsat 117W B[79] and ABS 2A[80] satellites into GTO. The first stage conducted a re-entry burn and successfully deployed its grid fins, before attempting a landing on the barge. The landing failed in its final moments due to low thrust on one of the first stage engines, caused by the exaustion of its liquid oxygen fuel supply. That caused the engines to shut down early, while the first stage was just above the drone’s deck, leading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly
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