Canon EOS 5D
ƒ/6.3
400 mm
1/5,000
640
This half of the rocket was hard to miss, given the flames, smoke trail and the drag of tumbling. So it was pretty low stress, and fun to watch.
(The really scary ones are the ones that fly perfectly to a few miles up, but fail to eject nosecone and chute…. and come back like screaming bullets. The sound of them is intense. A Nike model drilled entirely into the desert clay, fins and all. Last year, an 100K ft. attempt drilled 14 feet under the solid clay playa)
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