02-06-2018, 11:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Needville and Shiner, TX
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Originally Posted by tbzep
BTW, that exhaust plume was beautiful. There's nothing more cool than a kerosene-LOX flame twice as long at the booster, with the flame tip dancing about and just a hint of black whispy smoke to mark the ascent. No nasty SRB's to dirty things up.
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YEP!!! No spewing aluminum oxide "fallout" everywhere and contaminating everything with perchlorates...
Gotta love that 6,000 degree blue flame at the end of it too... like the old Saturn V liftoffs...
Wonder if they had any pad cameras going?? THAT would be something to see!!!
Later! OL J R
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