Wait... who is that up in the back row, anyway...? (JS)
Photos
Photo credits: Jeff Stai (JS); Bradley Wong (BW); Bobbie Guice (BG)
NOTE: Most of the picture files are 100K to 400K in size. Please let me know what you think about that! Thanks!
| M Drag Race! | Level 3! | Big Stuff! | Fun Stuff! | Cool Stuff! | ZILLA! |
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Look to the left... (JS) |
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Look to the right.... (JS) |
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Stand up sit down squeeze in! (JS) |
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One more just in case then break it up! Wait... who is that up in the back row, anyway...? (JS) |
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Rick O'Neil charges out of the crowd... (JS) |
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Top Row: Kurt "Don't Misspell It!" Gugisberg and his "Big Dumb Rocket" Team Bottom Row: Bob Csallo and his "Big Stick" Team (JS) |
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Another view of "Les Crews du Motley" - by the way, BDR is carry its usual video payload (JS) |
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"Bob, is that a rocket on your head, or are you just glad to... oh never mind!" (JS) |
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"May the funniest hat, er, best rocket win!" (JS) |
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Ready to Rumble! (JS) |
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Eleven-year-old Kevin Guice prepares to push the button for the Big Race! (JS) (Click here for more about Kevin) |
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Ready to go... (JS) |
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The button is pushed! (BG) |
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Looks like we have a clear winner - er, what was in that ignitor, anyway? (JS) (On-board video from Big Dumb Rocket not yet available) |
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Crossing over... (BG) |
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I don't have any pictures of the, er, "landing" of "Big Stick",
but you can see it was "non-optimal"... ("Big Dumb Rocket" recovered a lot more better.) (JS) |
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Bob and John Van Norman working together to repair the "M" casing... (JS) |
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Well, at least the aft closure is still usable... (JS) |
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Steve Klause with his ½ scale Nike Smoke for Level 3(JS) |
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The Nike Smoke on Pad 39A (JS) |
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Perfect flight of the Nike on an M1315 (JS) |
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Gary Bitterman's L3 attempt on an M1939 (JS) |
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Kelly Smith's ½ scale Patriot on an M1419 (JS) |
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John Anderson's "Louisville Slugger" for Level 3 (JS) |
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Boosting cleanly on an M1130 (JS) |
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Terry McKiernan (Esq.) puts his Jupiter C scale up on an M1315 for his Level 3 (JS) |
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Wedge Oldham wow-ed the crowd with his THREE K1100 cluster! Zoom!! (JS) |
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Scott Bartel wasn't so fortunate when his "N" Hybrid detonated on the pad (JS) |
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Another view (BW) |
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And... impact (BW) |
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Steve Roberson's 8mm-video-carrying Photon ready to go on an M1419 - altitude
was recorded by dual AltAccs to 9200 feet. (JS) Click here for the high-resolution version of the video (4100K) Click here for the low-resolution version (1800K) And, click here to read Steve's article about Photon! (PDF, 780K) |
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His Prefectness Rick "I got to fly at ROCstock!" O'Neil with his Quantum Leap. (JS) |
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Rick O., and his Other Prefectness Rick McGee, with the QL, ready to go (JS) |
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Booster going on a J415 (JS) |
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Successful sustainer ignition, on a J275 (JS) |
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Kirk Whiting struggling to hold up his venerable "L-Boy" (JS) |
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L-Boy leaving town on an L1500! (JS) |
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Not to be left out of the "M" fun, Kirk got Ken Finwall to sponsor this flight of "M-Boy" on the new M2400 load (JS) |
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Dave Eckhart's "Little Tykes" (sort of a "Basketball-Nik") was a real crowd pleaser... (JS) |
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Boosting on a K550! (JS) |
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A little tangled but looking good (JS) |
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It just looks soooo cool! (JS) |
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Touchdown, er, "three point at the buzzer...!" (JS) |
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John Pacente asks the musical question "Got Milk?" - this baby (sorry) boosted on an E18 (JS) |
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There's Greg "Don't Call Me Gore" Lawson with his still-naked Magnum-3 on a K250 (JS) |
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Love that K250! Rick "Mr. LTR" McGee's Magnum going up too (JS) |
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Black powder clusters are cool too! Colin Rowe lit three C6-3s (JS) |
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Here's Steve Roberson's EZ-EYE with a still camera on K560 - first time on a 75mm! (JS) |
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We had several other video flights - here's Bob Mosley scratch-built design, with a
rear-looking 1.2GHz video downlink, which flew on a K185. (JS) (Video not [yet?] available) |
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And, here's Steve Szczuka showing his "Retro is Back" which also carried
a video payload (JS) (Video not [yet?] available) |
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Hyam "Mr. Cluster" Sosnow flew one of his many fine cluster birds on Saturday (the details on this flight were not recorded) (JS) |
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Brian Sutton's "Clear and Present Danger" moving off from the Hybrid pad. (JS) |
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I'm not sure exactly what this is, but it sure stuck the landing! (JS) |
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Mike Dunkelly certified Level 2 with his V2 on a J--- motor. (JS) |
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Rick Jahahn models his Black Brant, which flew nicely on an H180. (JS) |
I know this seems like a lot of pictures for "just" a Level 2 attempt, but Kerry and ROC-ZILLA were just so darn photogenic - and, how often does a killer shred unfold in "super-slo-mo" right over your head? - JS
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Kerry Garrison, and his cone... (JS) |
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So, let's get that cone on there straight! (JS) |
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Um, well, as straight as possible! (JS) |
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Kerry's looking cool, calm, and collected - ready for his L2! (but that cone is... hmmm...) (JS) |
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That L850 is a very cool motor - nice boost! (JS) |
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um.... Kerry? This isn't good... (JS) |
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"It came out of the sky..." (JS) |
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(You need to understand that my camera does NOT have a motor drive!) (JS) |
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At least it all bounces! Isn't that a centering ring...? (JS) |
Kerry assures us that ROC-ZILLA II will rise from the waters soon, for his next L2 attempt. Good luck Kerry!
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