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Uploaded by on Mar 3, 2011

Amateur rocket "Proteus 6.5" launches from the Black Rock Desert, 9/25/2010.

Constructed and launched by Jeff Taylor and Curt Newport, Proteus 6.5 reached an apogee of about 75,000 feet ASL. After passing its peak altitude, the rocket deployed a parachute and descended safely to earth where it was recovered to be flown again. Proteus 6.5 is 6" in diameter, 14 feet tall, and weighs about 180 lbs on the pad. Watch for our next flight in the Fall of 2011.

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  • There was a sponsor's sticker on the outside of the airframe, just below the camera. That is what you see peeling off during the boost.

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  • awesome!!!

    

  • Sensacional!!! ^^

  • B00ya!

  • Awesome footage. Great work on the rocket!!

  • Amazing!

  • AWESOME!!!!!

  • Great footage! Please put a camera on the next one also!

  • @jgong8638 From what I read, it doesn't have paint, so that was probably the Aluminum skin starting to succumb to the awesome forces of high supersonic speeds while still low in the Troposphere. Whoa.

  • WOW!! The sound is just incredible, not to mention the view!! Is that paint peeling, or melting just after launch?

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