A perfect launch of my Telstar Logistics / LOC Precision V2.0 with the biggest motor possible, an L730 imported from Cesaroni, a Canadian aerospace & defense company. Their unique thermoplastic propellant burns cleanly, showing multiple shock diamonds.
In the foreground is a videocam on tripod for scale. Black Rock is in the distance. Best viewed large.
But this beautiful flight proved to be a swan song….
wow neat! ive never seen anything like this before thanks for sharing it on flickr this is really neat the whole smoke trail from the lift off way cool!
Oh no! The V2 comes to an end!
But what did you expect? Build a missile, and it wants to go out with a bang. The import thing is that you got good pictures.
Tod Huffman wrote:
> what did you expect? Build a missile, and it wants to go out with a bang.
Yup. (shakes head)
Men… They start tinkering with rocketry, and the next thing you know, they’re launching "Vergeltungswaffe Zwei" lookalikes following ballistic terminal trajectories and carrying a [hygroscopic] explosive payload… ;-0
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Cartel * ( B/Y/G ) – Blue or Yellow or Green ( No Red ), and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
don’t know if you’ve seen this video of a rocket filmed in slow motion steve, but thought you might find it interesting…
Hey Steve,
Thanks for licensing your photo using a Creative Commons license!
Your photo has been used for a satirical goldengod blog entry about making your photography career take off.
Thanks again,
-Andrew Ferguson
Woow… U’ve caught cool moment… ! 😀
Your photo is “A” Class
Seen in “A” Class group
thanks y’all
joshme17: from a lot of rocket shots in the desert, I find that without some foreground element, it’s really hard to make out the scale…. Is it an Estes rocket or a scale V2?
Sparkle_fish: regarding you note, I am curious. Deliberate… like, its point ing too low… and would be cool with a wide-angle pan shot?
I checked the original size, and I mainly see a silhouette… But the playa chunks look dramatic!
Sparkle_fish: regarding you note, I am curious. Deliberate… like, its point ing too low… and would be cool with a wide-angle pan shot?
Ooops, sorry, to me it looked as though the camera on the tripod was pointing away from the action, I guess I was wrong. Would have been funny though, please delete the note.
Still a damned fine action shot, bags of movement & energy.
ProXX classic can be a bit underwhelming in the smaller motors, but the 54/75/98s are really nice. Great shot.
Just got a cool link from my friends at Sea Launch:
ROC had a “mass V-2 launch… many a V-2 had met their untimely end here."
The video page is pretty sweet (start from the bottom for the best ones…)
Oooh, and then there are always larger projects…. with a similar outcomes…. and with an automobile as the payload! Crazy Brits…
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