Largest Ever Model Rocket Launched

1. Skipweasel
   April 29th, 2009 at 9:44 am

   Great stuff - but I was expecting a stage-separation!

   Loved the parachutes - they were just the colour I remember from all those years ago. Except I must have seen it in black and white. Odd how the memory plays tricks.

2. Rusty James
   April 29th, 2009 at 9:55 am

   Model rocket?!? That's a land to air missile!! Pretty impressive. I'm just looking at the cars in the background, wondering how many of them almost swerved off the road when the rocket took off. Not something you see everyday!

3. dalucero
   April 29th, 2009 at 10:05 am

   I know right? At what point do you take the word 'model' off the front of 'rocket'? I wonder if he had to get any sort of clearance or notify anyone to launch something that big.

4. Foreigner1
   April 29th, 2009 at 11:31 am

   Yeah North Korea eat your heart out!!!

5. Foreigner1
   April 29th, 2009 at 11:52 am

   @Dalucero - At the point that you can call it a complete replica. A model has less copied details than the original. If I saw correctly, this model ony fired its 1st stage? And it has a standard model-grade solid fuel engine?

   I know that where I live, you need permission for even far smaller rockets. This mastodont would never get permission to even be built up, let alone that it also would be launched...

6. Johnny Cat
   April 29th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

   I wish I would have been there...so awesome! Pretty good camerawork, too. Hmm, maybe I was there.

7. chief
   April 29th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

   This reminds me of the end of Koyaansqatsi.

8. jonathan
   April 29th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

   lol @Foreigner1

9. DaveL
   April 30th, 2009 at 1:21 am

   If ever it were a dick thing...

10. Robolasse
    April 30th, 2009 at 4:25 am

    A model rocket? That's a V2!

11. ted
    April 30th, 2009 at 6:49 am

    If it were dick thing, DaveL, it would have been kind of embarrassing. He only got about halfway, then stopped.

    Cool that it landed upright like that. Must have had a really heavy bottom.

    That's some expensive hobby, I bet.

12. Xinavera
    April 30th, 2009 at 10:05 am

    Very impressive, but with 8 N engines and a central P engine and the thing only got to 4000'? That thing is far, far more powerful than many of the early sounding rockets which got to 40 miles altitude.

    I guess they were going for aethetics, not pure performance.

13. Johnny Cat
    April 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Or maybe they had a budget.

14. Christophe
    May 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    Excellent subject

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