Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ƒ/7.1
400 mm
1/2,500
640

This one flamed out most spectacularly, while the owner watches in the background… with flames shooting out all sides, even burning holes through the body tube. Very cool thermal waves in the air at full size.

10 responses to “Rocket BBQ”

  1. It started burning on the line, blowing its top at first…
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    Then it blew holes though both sides of the airframe
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  2. Like the olympic flame and torch. Good that no one runs with it 🙂

  3. OMG! It’s full of rubber cement!

  4. 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."

  5. 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:

    Red Herring Hotmail Burn

    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…

  6. 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.
    Rocket Art
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/blafetra/10389467995/

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

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

  8. [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…

  9. > 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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