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Aerial photos of launching rocket
At the 12-10-11 FAR Christmas party and launch a helicopter with a Hero video camera attached was hovered above a launching rocket which came within a couple of feet of it. Here is a screen grab of a couple of frames of that video.
This is a 6" x 84" rocket with a 54-1706 Blue Thunder load. It went to 8000 feet. (Corrected in later message) The 11 second 40.5 megabyte video itself is at: http://www.v-serv.com/far/new/Helicopter.avi This video will be the highlight of your year IMHO. I had the best experience playing it under VLC since it seems to be an avi file in a quicktime container. I set it to loop full screen and it really didn't get old. Jerry Last edited by Jerry Irvine : 12-12-2011 at 02:16 PM. |
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That is SO cool! Do have any more stills you can post?
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PLEASE tell me it was an R/C copter.
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That is way cool! Just last night someone was telling me about an R/C plane that was taking video of a launch while in flight - has anyone seen this and/or know where to find it!
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That's awesome! Thanks Rex. BTW, you get that Super Batray done yet?
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Someone posted the video to youtube which makes it more convenient to casual viewers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...d&v=D8R7mQi9WxA It came within 2 rotor diameters. Had it hit it, there would not be much copter left and the rocket would be unhurt. That particular copter was used for a guidance system test that makes it a "stable platform", which is the only reason it was not flipped upside down, when the rocket blew by at around 500mph with a pretty good shock wave. It is a very technically impressive accomplishment of photography. Jerry |
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Update on rocket data in video
Motor:
Cesaroni L1395 75mm, 24.45" long, weight = 151.3 oz. Propellant - Blue streak Total Impulse- 1101 lb/sec Rocket: 6" dia, 9 ft tall with a long conical nosecone and dual deployment Dry weight with chutes- Approx 22 lbs Weight with this Motor - 31.45 lbs Altitude recorded on this flight: 7968 Ft with 100% successful recovery (not even a scratch.) (J Charles Conway) Just Jerry |
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Jerry,
Very cool video. A few years ago I was working on a video for an EMRR contest. I used a Booster Vision mini-cam to try to photgraph an Estes Snitch from a lot of different angles. Eldred P. and I laughed ourselves nearly to incontinence trying to hit the mini-cam held over the launch pad with a 10 foot pole. We must have done 15 flights with a slow-moving Snitch, at only 10 feet, and we never came anywhere near as close as they did in your video. Again, thanks for posting it. Snitch Video |
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I did a double post of this in FreeForAll
I did a double post of this in FreeForAll... ooops!
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