Back from the framers… wooo-hooo!
The Apollo 14 Lunar Module Simulator plate looks fantastic in a black shadow box. The texture and topography just pops. Passersby thought it was an art piece.
As abstract art, the picture on the right begs a lot of questions.
Where? Black Rock Desert.
When? The pitch dark of a moonless summer night.
Scale? From another photo, I calculate that the base of the tower of sparks is 25 ft. wide.
What? My fiberglass Nike Smoke rocket festooned with multicolor sequenced LEDs blinking from within (so we can track it against the Milky Way as it drifts back by parachute). The propellant was an experimental K400 home-brewed by Jim Green, with titanium sponge mixed in. This formulation is especially dramatic, like those childhood sparklers on steroids…
I first met JIm and first flew one of his motors at BALLS in 2006.
It was a perfect flight with a throaty crackle and roar, and the windswept angel hair mane was captured by mfurlotti on medium format film.
Art image details below…
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