Welcome to my Rocketry Photo Album!

Miscellaneous Photos

This is where I will put a bunch of different photo's that have no special connection with anything other than being fun to view and special to me. Have fun!

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	A sequence of 4 shots taken with a motor drive of my Saturn V on a D12-3 motor during our annual 4th of July town launch
	My only 7 engine cluster.  made with a carpet tube for the main body and a BT-60 (I think) for the upper portion.  The fins are made from 1/8" thick fiberglass PC board material.   EVERYBODY asked me why I was wasting my money on 7 D motors when I could do the same with a single F, not to mention the reliability problems with clusters.   Especially such a large number of cluters...  At T+1 second, after all 7 D motors lit, and she started to scream into the air, they stopped asking that question.   By touchdown, they were all talking about THEIR cluster design ideas.  A new collection of Cluster Crazed rocketeers were born *S*
	Sid Maxwell helps to get my Maxi-Astrocam for a flight at Pearl River ModRoc.  That's my Maxi-Port-A-Pad that it's sitting on.
	And we have liftoff on a cluster of 3 D motors.  This model was made with an engine adapter to allow for a single 29mm motor or a cluster of 3 24mm motors.  As an aside, the body tube was rolled from a sheet of 1/64" aircraft plywood and the decals were made on a xerox machine and painted by hand then glued on.  this was before the days of PC's and graphic programs...
	One of our Goddard Society members preps his 5 engine cluster bird for flight.  HHmmm, now where ARE those ignitors...
	Dejavu...  Wasn't I just looking at this thing in this position a moment ago?
	Now...   If this were a WarnerBrothers cartoon with the cyote, you KNOW that this is when the 5 ejection charges would go off....
	One of my many camera rockets.  One of these days, I'll locate some of the photo's from these things.   This model flew on a 29mm F with a disposable 35mm in the nose, triggered by the ejection charge.
	Another camera rocket.   29mm motor.  This configuraton also used a disposable 35mm but with a motor drive and R/C setup so that after ejection, with the payload suspended below the chute, I could snap pictures with the transmitter.
	My Maxi-CamRoc ready for flight at Pearl River
	A beautiful flight on a single D12-3
	I did find some pictures from my Estes CamRoc.  This one shows a nice stright down view of my neighborhood.
	This pix is a nice angle view of my neighborhood.  Problem is...  The negatives used in these things had a dimple that (i guess) was used for handling the negative during processing.   You guessed it, my house is RIGHT behind that dimple in the upper left corner...
	Chris Travaris has become famous for his Pepsi and Coke 2 liter bottle rockets, one shown here at a NEMROC launch.  Great fun and shows just how versitial you can be if you use your imagination
	Great recovery flight after flight!
	Here is one of the many many groups of youngsters I've had the privilage to teach model rocketry too.   This group is from a class at College Academy for gifted children.  It was a 3 week intensive course in model rocketry bringing them to the high-intermediate level
	Here I am with Brian McCarthy at Pearl River with the results of our kit-bash session where we combined our Big Bertha's into a rocket affectionately called "Dolly".
	Six 18mm motors, a whole mess of fins and dual chutes.  For some reason, everyone was giving us odd looks and moving their stuff to tables a little further away by the time we finished this beast...
	This is another picture of my Duce with the 2 canted 18mm motors.  I love the exhaust profile that this model produces
	This is a scale model of Robert Goddards first liquid fueled rocket.  I built this when I began the Goddard Society model rocket club.  It uses an 18mm motor at the top, parachute recovery.   The top section is a BT-50 (for sizing estimates) and the fuel lines (thin rods going to the "fuel" tanks below) are made from 1/8" wood dowels.  This model flys great on A8 and B6 motors.  C6 motors are a little too much for it to handle
	Brian McCarthy designed and constructed a much larger scale version of this same rocket that does wonderful on much larger motors.
	Here is a second launch of the Goddard rocket
	with impressive recovery too!
	Here I am with my Maxi-AstroCam, Maxi-Scout and Maxi-Port-A-Pad.  Note the dummy engine casing sticking out of the base of the Scout.
	Brian seems to be running down his list to see if he can figure out what went wrong...   "HHhhhmmmm, let's see, first I select a motor, these D12-7's look good.....
	Another shot (see other misc page) of my mini model rockets at a local town rocket show.  This is one of the few photo's of my Mini-Grissom (that's it in the top middle of the picture, you can see the bottom of it (blue)), you can also see my sprite, maxi-birdie, mini-mars-lander, mini-transport, mini gyroc, mini-mercury redstone, Spock space-man and many others.
	Here's my (approx) 1:100 scale Russian N1 moon rocket.  flies great on 29mm motors!
	Here is a giant version of the rocket that I designe for our NEMROC convention flying on a 29mm E
	The old gang flying on the ice on Canobee Lake in New Hampshire.  There's (from left to right) Sid Maxwell, his daughter Aubry, (can't recall the name of the 2nd guy), Gary Hughes (with the white head gear), Brian McCarthy and Mark Shehee
	OK, it doesn't get better than this... LOL  We were at our NEMROC launch when Mark Shehee comes up to me to ask if he could launch his rocket on my Maxi-Port-A-Pad.  I said "Sure!", so off he goes with Gary Hughes to set it up.  I guess I did a REAL good job building that pad because they thought it was strong plastic like the original, not realizing that (for weight reasons) it's all balsa wood.  As they pushed down on the rocket, two of the legs snapped off.  Here they are, frantically trying to see if they can fix it before I notice, the whole time, I'm laughing myself silly and taking pictures...  KeyStone Cop meets Mo Howard... LOL
	One of my favorite PMC kits.  Flies great and always gets a "wow" from the crowd.
	An interesting angle from which to photograph a Saturn V launch.
	Here goes my Maxi-Saucer on a 29mm G motor. great flights!
	Another launch of my Maxi-Saucer
	Here's Scott Branch at a Pearl River ModRoc hooking up my mini-Gyroc (on the pad) with my mini-saucer in his left hand.  He seems to be saying... "hey!   HEY!  I'm gettin' sparks over here!  Who's sitting on the launch button THIS time!  HEY!!"
	Here I am helping a Boy Scout hooking the micro clips up in preparation for launching his Alpha
	And we have liftoff!   Great time helping the Scouts, and others, experience model rocketry.  You should give it a try!
	These folks have a BALL and so do I
	I love taking launch shots from this angle (but I *do* get a lot of weird looks when setting up...) Nice V2 launch
	Now, THIS is timing... I learned this from Len Fehskins.  This is the MOMENT of ignition.  The motor has ignited, the ignitor and clips have been blown out of the way and the motor is JUST building up to enough thrust to begin moving the model off of the pad.
	One of several boost gliders I've built over the years using WhiteWing gliders as the main part of the combination.  Great flights!

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