Posted on 10/05/2009 1:05:47 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
This is not the first time.
If this happened back on June 1st, why didn’t this make national news??? I don’t recall watching any news reports about this.
I’m so glad you put the /sarc tag on, because otherwise we would think you were serious. /s
Thanks for the correction. You are so right.
model rocket
You boys playing with homemade fireworks again?
Is this an old story? Like from June?
Kind of what I thought. This needs to be moved out of Breaking News.
Might of been a D or E engine.
Possibly multi-stage.
Yikes!
A media cover-up of this event might be breaking news though!
Wasn’t me.
I’ve just been blowing up antbeds lately.
No airborne stuff.
Is this an old story or has it happened again?
Same old story from June.
Thanks! I thought so.
“Admittedly, this is not a amateur-level rocket. However, the high-powered stuff is getting much more common. Go to http//www.aerotech-rocketry.com and look at the images there.
You’ll even see a white rocket with triangular fins being prepped for flight - with a Texas flag nearby. These are not little Estes toys, but it’s simply a larger scale - everything else works the same. If you can build a three-foot tall rocket that flies, you can build a ten-foot rocket.”
Even better than Aerotech, google the Public Missiles, Ltd. Web site. They SELL kits that can go 14K feet and better.
I was a member of the Tripoli Rocketry Association for a few years, and our local Tripoli chapter launches had a 17K feet FAA waiver monthly. The annual “big” launch had a 48K foot waiver.(you have to have a waiver for rockets over a certain size and/or performance levels) I saw a LOT of launches that went 10K, easy.The physically largest rocket I saw launched locally (with my own eyes) was 300lb and went to well over 8K feet. It isn’t cheap, but it isn’t at all a difficult technical task. I’m a hack in rocketry and one of mine did over 5K feet. That was on an “H” motor. Each letter doubles the total Newton/sec thrust of the previous. Note that Aerotech’s motor division sells ones up to “N”. Those can move CARS.
Lots of odd things out in these woods.
This has happened before, more than once.
American Airlines plays hardball with the competition.
Yea, I think in June the authorities were trying to blame it on anti-government swamp hoodlums.
On September 25, 1978, PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-200, crashed in San Diego while trying to land at Lindbergh Field (San Diego International Airport), California after a Cessna 172 operated by Gibbs Flite Center encroached the flight path. The 727 crashed at the intersection of Dwight and Nile. The Cessna fell a few blocks away. All 135 on board the PSA were killed as well as the two on the Cessna, and 7 on the ground. At the time, it was the worst plane crash in the United States.
And as much as you want to believe, PSA Flight 182 wasn't brought down by a missile either.
Nope, my Tannerite stash is stowed up in a secret location...
My rocketry is limited to school demonstrations...
;-)
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