Eight-way Nike Smoke Drag Race

Eight quarter-scale Performance Rocketry Nike Smoke rockets drag race at Dairy Aire 2011.

Seven of the rockets flew on fast-burn CTI K2045 Vmax motors and pulled in excess of 40 G’s!
One flew an experimental Aerotech propellant.

Here you see the first four off the line. Click photo for plumage. Other shots below.

James Dougherty compiled a detailed video analysis, and also also flew the winning rocket off the rail. (It incorporates my son’s launch video and my photos.)

The next drag race with use a long-burn motor and I will plan to fly my Nike Smoke with a side-facing HD video bay. It would be cool to see the action going up…