Rocket BBQ

10 responses to “Rocket BBQ”

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   jurvetson

   Oct 23, 2013 at 2:53 am

   It started burning on the line, blowing its top at first…
   

   Then it blew holes though both sides of the airframe
   

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   js.brain

   Oct 23, 2013 at 4:08 am

   Like the olympic flame and torch. Good that no one runs with it 🙂

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   Kaets Ebut

   Oct 23, 2013 at 5:46 am

   OMG! It’s full of rubber cement!

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   scleroplex

   Oct 23, 2013 at 1:27 pm

   aww :-I

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   Chucil

   Oct 23, 2013 at 6:42 pm

   Rocket BBQ … Mongolian BBQ … Mongols
   From wikipedia,
   "Rocket technology was first known to Europeans following its use by the Mongols Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan when they conquered parts of Russia, Eastern, and Central Europe. The Mongolians had acquired the Chinese technology by conquest of the northern part of China and by the subsequent employment of Chinese rocketry experts as mercenaries for the Mongol military. Reports of the Battle of Mohi in the year 1241 describe the use of rocket-like weapons by the Mongols against the Magyars."

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   jurvetson

   Oct 23, 2013 at 8:59 pm

   Fascinating…

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/17041419@N07] — what an uncanny resemblance to rubber cement burning, even the licks of flame down in the greenery:

   

   I was glad to recommend the use of rubber cement for this photoshoot for Red Herring magazine in 1998… It was a story on Hotmail, so they needed a very hot mail box… I am leaning in because I could feel the heat but had to keep my eyes looking forward…

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   Bruce La Fetra

   Oct 24, 2013 at 8:23 pm

   Steve, I was hoping you got pictures of the two sparky motor CATOs as your pictures are the best, but don’t see them here.
   
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/blafetra/10389467995/

   It’s not often one sees the flaming motor traveling *alongside* the undamaged rocket.
   
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/blafetra/10389124745/

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   js.brain

   Oct 25, 2013 at 4:54 am

   So funny that shot! So you are leaning in because of the heat :-))

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   jurvetson

   Oct 27, 2013 at 4:16 pm

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/blafetra] — it is just taking me forever to process the photos and video. I will post some of that flight now…

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    Kaets Ebut

    Nov 16, 2013 at 7:45 am

    > I was glad to recommend the use of rubber cement for this photoshoot for Red Herring magazine in 1998

    That’s awesome. Did it go something like, "Trust me–I’m an expert"?

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