Video Drag Race 2

4 responses to “Video Drag Race 2”

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   jurvetson

   Dec 17, 2005 at 10:57 pm

   sample frame from the rocket video at apogee:
   

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   angry shock

   Dec 18, 2005 at 10:04 am

   I love that persistance in the task. You will surely work it out soon and perfectly.

   I have a question, pardon my ignorance: How can you predict/induce the 2 rockets to make the same course in order to have the first recording the second?

   Or is it just a question of faith? =)

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   jurvetson

   Dec 18, 2005 at 5:38 pm

   no… just a question of luck, methinks…. =)

   The plan is to get a half-second head start with the video rocket, and then launch a heavier, slower lifting rocket that leaves a lot of smoke right after it. It will not follow the same path, but it might stay in frame for a fraction of a second. We got that effect with our first video-rocket drag race (seen at the beginning of this video on Revver).

   On one of the earlier attempts, I tried 3 chaser rockets, but the small estes engines don’t leave nearly enough of a smoke trail to see in daytime.

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   angry shock

   Dec 19, 2005 at 2:19 am

   So you have everything precisely calculated!

   …uhmmm. =S

   😉

   Are just doing it for the sake of some homemade hollywoodesque FXs, then???!!! But they now use computers to do this, they don´t make it the old way anymore!!! (try-error- stunt crews and stuff) 😉

   And hey, when I said "the same course" I meant that the 2nd would *just* stay in frame… yes, I wasn´t expecting more than that. +)

   I like the little person there behind the red/blue rocket. =)

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