Downright Ignorant Rocket Launch

[shellybirdy]

love the video really good

[kffive]

I stop watching after "Thats even bigger than Gerys rocket"

[ohigan]

was there a midget astronaut in there? That would have been a sweet ride. Next launch maybe you can have cameras attached to the rocket.

[david1513]

oh yeah that was the most wonderful lounch and recovery i have seen to date, thanks to the camera man and all the builders of this rocket, i know it cost a bunch of money to lounch this size rocket, may i ask where it was lounched at area, i use to lounch the nike hercules missle system, long ago, my rocketry goes back 50 years i was 12 when i lounched my frist rocket i built it from shot gun shell powder and plastic tubing we saved up for month to get enough shot gun shells to lounch

[coldshot5555]

did you use a perchloride propellant? that sucker sounded so cool...YOU ROCK..ET

[AHGlasher]

Please inlighten me (not the smart asses). What was so "downright ignorant" about this launch?

[murdelabop]

@AHGlasher That's the name of the rocket, if I understand the joke correctly.

[AHGlasher]

@murdelabop Thanks, unfortunately the clip I see is too distorted. Once you pointed it out I was able to freeze a frame and make it out.

[Kirbisi]

@AHGlasher well normal model rockets are 1-4 feet tall. THIS rocket is as tall as a 2 story house. normal rocket engines cost about 10-50 dollars. this launch probably costs about $300. so yes this rocket has the right to be celled downright ignorant.

[david1513]

@Kirbisi you are wrong on the cost of the motor a motor of that size would cost around $1000 to lounch and model rockets are from $5 to$35 and high powered are from$80 to $1000 and more,thay are differant then high powered rockets the cost is dramaticley more.. id say the cost of this lounch was $1200

[Llynok]

Probably shouldn't have named it 'BALLS'.

[arnold02000]

Everyone here is clapping and hollering. Meanwhile in Russia, a very sweaty Vladimir Putin is unlocking his "football" to enter the launch sequence code.

[Landotter1]

Think I'd put a bit larger chutes and a few feet longer lines on the bottom. WOW that was awesome.... how high did it go?

[macintosh39]

what is the speed of one of does rockets

[bigbilly81290]

for the inpatiant skip to 1:17, nice video

[demonsparkx]

Holy shit looks like a giant 50,000cal sniper round from far away. I dont know shit about rockets but that was fucking awsome dude!

[Slugg0matic]

{411} Hello operator. Can you get me the number for NORAD?

[SuperCrazyJunk]

looks like a v2 you could launch that sub orbital!

[SuperCrazyJunk]

looks like a v2

[osensei2987]

@tallblondesexy Maybe if u follow the conversation and see how one topic lead into another instead of budding in then that would provide u w/ an answer.

[aerobee58]

I still have the magazine with this on the front cover.

[weeardguy]

And now for the inevitable question: Is there still a video from the towercam?

[carldagroundskeeper]

Awesome. I have Earl Cagel's Point 39 tape of LDRS XI, plus LDRS XII, LDRS XIII, and LDRS XVI. I'm also involved in it and it's one of the most fun hobbies on the planet!

Thanks for putting this up!

[mattmatt115]

Ok.. what did you accomplish by doing this?

[carldagroundskeeper]

@mattmatt115

Awesomeness. Nuff said.

[mattmatt115]

@carldagroundskeeper Good enough!!

[detibry]

altitude?

[jparts]

Awesome!

[turboboosttouchdown]

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[MrExxy]

Well done.

[caseman86]

haha "one way" 0:44 great :D

[ndawgg100]

0:45 i love that sign!

[unobombers]

i'm sure that aliens were interested in the flight too... that white thing is ordinary in such occasions ;DD

[75thUser]

Please pause at 2:53, freeze frame. :0 How about that LOL

[Emophiliac2]

And that would likely be an artifact from copying a 15-year-old tape being played back through a Dazzle converter.

[75thUser]

LOL,right on. Great vid tho, awesome launch. If that was 92, what are those guys launching now?

[FullAutomagic]

@Emophiliac2 I'm going to have to disagree and say it's incontrovertible evidence of not only life on other planets, but sentient life at that!

[jamzt94]

@75thUser I dont get it?

[Thekaiserwill]

@75thUser i paused at 2:53 and it was shit

[75thUser]

OK damn this is ridiculious, if you buffer the vid all the was out and slide the timebar between 1:47 and 1:50, you can see the 3rd object zoom over the top of the last rocket exhaust. Weird.

[Emophiliac2]

I presume what you are seeing is the parachute that was ripped off when the back of the rocket coasted into the front of the rocket after ejection. I probably have some photos of that area (I was shooting with a 500mm lens as well as the video)

[75thUser]

Actually at 2:04, the 3rd object appears, moves horizontal and into the last rocket exhaust. Which is a bit different than the behavior of the last part of the rocket. Any thoughts?

[75thUser]

Did you all see the UFO at 2:31? It appears from nowhere as the second part of the rocket falls to the earth. What is funny is that the 3rd object just sits there, almost watching. Be reminded that UFO is not aliens it is just an unidentified object. PPL who were there, did you see that 3rd object at all? If so, was it just part of the rocket?

[Lostwinddragon]

So let me git this right we have drunk hicks that are on par with the North Koreans back in 1992.

I think Kim needs to outsource to South Carolina.

[disturbedone5009]

I bet the N. Koreans are watching this video thinking how the hell you got your rocket off the ground.

[kookamunga187]

Jesus...If I happened to be puttering around in my Cessna a few miles away I'd crap my pants....probably looks like damn SAM from up there.

[guitarcapo]

Edit it down.

[ludwigsongs]

Maybe you should try puting a man on the moon?

[ludwigsongs]

hahaha

SAyin what we're all thinkin eh??

[pauloz386]

Let me guess thus damn North Koreans again!

[lawman0252]

Nice!!!

All they need now is some WMD and they can wage their own war against a neighboring country like Mexico!

[ntt688]

Beautiful launch...pretty soon my own neighbour will be a superpower, lol!

[Galeati08]

How high did it reach

[kobasica]

that launch sucked i can get an A motor going higher than this

[Emophiliac2]

If you could loft 800 lbs with an A motor, I would be impressed. Otherwise....

[carldagroundskeeper]

@kobasica

Yeah if you launched it by itself. Try being experienced in rocketry before trying to be all cool and funny and hip and cool and funny and hip etc, etc...

jackass

[albgk]

@kobasica ure an idiot... nuff said

[tubefreak90]

@kobasica a motor? in ur dreams fag now shut up nobody fuckin cares what u gotta say

[MackanSMC]

too much spare time and money? :P

[HRMOKeefe]

Akmadenejad on line 3

[fatmeteor]

this video is 17 years old

[eckosama]

really :)

[Omnigeek6]

76000 NS is a large P motor.

[DTHRocket]

I love the one-way sign pointed up.

[gibsies13]

"my rockets bigger that gary's rocket" hahahaha, i wonder the size of garys, 11 in =DDD

[jrmyrook]

How high did it end up going?

[davef21370]

good effort !

makes my 2 foot cardboard tube look a bit weak but we have to start somewhere :)

[BipedalMammal]

I've been trying to watch this video for 4 days, but it won't load... Youtube sucks.

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

If only Project 463 flew as planned... but great projects all. You mix the good with the bad, and you cant always win in rocketry. The Stratospheric dreams and project 463 were both so well designed.

[Omnigeek6]

Yeah, project 463 was excellent

[billorgeorge]

You can bet the feds have these guy's numbers.

[Atevra]

Yes, because they gave them to the feds, all part of the process

[Spuds706]

Thanks for posting this! I've only seen the footage on Earl Cagle's Balls video.. I first saw it in February of 1993.. That was the first time I heard about High Power Rocketry and Tripoli.. That's how I went broke, too! (just kiddin')

[vexviper]

That was bad ass!! Was there a camera on board?

[Emophiliac2]

I seem to remember that there were cameras on board, but I have no idea who has the video.

[GoRideaMTN]

thats a boss rocket i wanna see pictures of the cluster and components

[tootalltony2006]

That was effing awesome!

[frostypaws12]

what certification are you at also!

[cadetwrzesinski]

he has to be a lvl 3...duh?

[frostypaws12]

that looks like and ICBM! can it go into orbit?

[clichesandstuff]

I like the name of the rocket. And the "one way" sign.

[Zoomer30]

Model rocket makers lauch man into space.

[greentractors]

The American ingenuity is second to none on this planet and if we can build toys with this much power and range in a matter of a a few days.......just think what we can do to an enemy when we have REAL motivation and reason to go after them.

[osensei2987]

I beg to differ! Once we identify US excellence we immediately outsource the work to our enemies because they'll do the work cheaper! Then we lose the ability to work with the technology at home and rely on our enemies to create the weapons we need to kick their asses!

[greentractors]

osensei2987 "we immediately outsource the work to our enemies because they'll do the work cheaper!"

Unfortuntely you are correct.

Sigh...oh well...

[Steni97]

You make a good point. Only Duncan Hunter is speaking out about this nonsense.

[osensei2987]

Back in 97 I worked on the MBF project at NASA. Basically we created a database utilizing Oracle RDBMS to catalog telemetry data for the International Space Station. We were working out of the Sunny Carter Training Facility in Clear Lake Texas. Every morning on my way to my workstation, I would pass the Chinese Satellite launch schedule.

[osensei2987]

I remember Clinton going on TV saying, "Tonight your children can go to sleep knowing that there are no nuclear missiles pointed at them"! The President knew full well that he had sold our vehicle launch technology and many supercomputers and software to the Chinese under the guise of "Free Trade"! The Chinese have certainly militarized this technology! Before then the Chinese had no ICBMs capable of reaching us!

[pysgodfach]

@osensei2987 The chinese could have easily built their own within a few years. This way we get paid for it.

[osensei2987]

@pysgodfach We got paid? No shit? Where is my fucking check? It's just like when dumbass neocons talk about we need to drill for "OUR OWN OIL" to reduce energy costs! Then a foreign multi-national company ala BP comes in and takes "OUR OIL" from our sovereign territory and sells in the GLOBAL MARKET which has nothing to do with OUR ENERGY COSTS! So easily brainwashed by the global elitists.

[k2477456]

@osensei2987 who says we dont have any aimed back

[Twinsfan2009]

I was in Black Rock Last month for ARLISS!

[deltaalpha21074]

That is the biggest rocket I ever saw good god!!!

[2FST4YA]

Awesome rocket...how high did it reach?

[Emophiliac2]

I'm amazed that I can't find information on how high it went. Weird. The information might be in some 1992 or 1993 issues of the Tripoli Magazine, but my copies are 2000 miles away at the moment...

[Emophiliac2]

Great, if I just checked my previous responses, I would see it went 3500 feet. I wonder where I got that information earlier?

[JohnnyHaywood]

Did you have to obtain any sort of airspace clearance from FAA or USAF prior to launch?

[Emophiliac2]

LDRS and BALLS launches always get FAA clearance in advance. This especially comes into play for BALLS, where launches can go to basically any altitude. I don't think the USAF or NORAD gets involved, although I seem to recall having to hold on launches when a B-52 was flying by.

[JohnnyHaywood]

How do you communicate with the controlling agency just before launch? Landline or radio?

[Emophiliac2]

I was never involved in organizing or running LDRS/BALLS, but it was usually ham radios that contacted the FAA. The nearest landline is miles away. Remember, these launches are taking place in the middle of an old lakebed (where the British car broke the speed of sound a few years back).

[NatureFreak07]

That was awesome. NATO probably saw that on they're radar!

[DJ420420]

Hahaha i got this video at my house and i went to the Ballz 006 launch in 1996. The R motor was the coolest rocket launch I have ever been to in my life. God Bless that rocket to bad it came in ballastic from 100,000 ft. and broke the sound barrier and buried itself 50+ft. into the lake bed.

[billiardjay]

Kim Jong Il called: he wants to offer you a job.

[RocketBurn11]

lmfao!

[RocketBurn11]

They wonder why their rockets don't work but they never check the label. If they looked close they'd see it says made in Korea!

[madvideogamer]

that dosent even look like a model o.o

[GeoffreyfromParis]

Try with a rocket Ariane V, this would be better.

[supressorgrid]

The rest of the world should take note.Here in America we build stuff like this for fun.Dont sccrew with us!

[mattpostle]

haha ooooo scary

[davef21370]

yeh, and it never quite works the way it should ;)

[Emophiliac2]

There is only a single stage, with multiple engines. A J engine was used to separate the top of the rocket from the lower body, but it wasn't sufficient to get it far enough away. The result was that the lower body coasted up and ripped off a parachute.

[TedTimmis]

Great camera work,cool rocket.

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

Earls videos are the best.

[Engage777]

...And what did they use for fuel?

[Emophiliac2]

See the description - it lists the 14 motors used for the flight (not counting the one for separation)

[goldwingergalion]

Great Northern Bean gas!

[am2112rush]

How high did it get? Didn't look like much in the video.

[Emophiliac2]

A quick check of the internet indicates the rocket reached an altitude of 3500 feet. Not bad for 800 pounds. (On a related note, Stu Barrett, one of the people you hear on the video, indicates that a J275 was used as a gas generator for separation.)

[am2112rush]

Thanks. 3500 feet is a lot for 800 lbs. Thanks for the info!

[rocketkyle]

Very cool. I have Earl Cagle's whole LDRS video line. Thanks for posting this.