Mexican Rocket Trials

These are some of the first attempts by us American pyros to duplicate the large girandola type rockets used for festivals in Mexico. I now know how the makers of the Hindenburg felt when their ship crashed to the ground in flames!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• fireworks
• rocket
• home
• made
• fpag
• girandola
• mexican
• passfire

[wtfmrkaffe]

Awesome ramming machine (around 0:45 in the video) :D 5*

[pyronaught]

I designed and built the ramming machine. You can get the plans for how to build it on the passfire website.

[displayfireworks1]

You guys look like you are all having a great time. Im jealous I live too far away in Pennsylvania. Was that one guy with the shorts Harry G?

[pyronaught]

Yep, the guy in the white shorts on the first rocket launch was Harry. I'm the other guy lighting the rocket.

[durneykeypyro2]

Are you part of the florida pyrotechnics art guild?

[pyronaught]

yes. This video was from the FPAG spring festival in 2006.

[chernobilrasputin]

this is ours nuclear mexican weapon.

we will invaide all the countries hahahahaha

we have the power :-( well almos jijijijij

is fun

[Landotter1]

If the fins on the rocker were turned about the same angle as the engines, it may have flown properly!!!

[jvasquez311]

Teamwork FUCK YEA!!!

[kipyj]

pero si son puros gringos..

[hjfkds]

para que suban y no se les caigan tienen que girar y de un empuge el que ase guirar sale la mecha que prende todos mexico fire works

[ultrabluebear]

oh why wonder how it failed. :-)

girandola,s must rotate like a bullet.

and you guys made tailfins on them like a rocket.

so every time it would rotate(that,s the idea what a girandola does) it finds resistance from those 4 tailfins.

why does a bullet spins and must a rocket have stabilizer fins? because they both must be stabilized, if you give a spinning bullet fins it would go all places but not the right direction

and if you must give them fins give them curved ones that go with the flow

[jackmonkey26]

That doesn't work for low speed ascents. On girandolas the spin is used to stabilize the object. The only other way would be to make sure the CG is below the center of thrust like a stick rocket and that can be unstable at times. A little tweaking will fix them right up.

[kevin10r]

if i was there i would of duck and cover

[roaming1978]

Great Video!