Rocket Man
Photo by Jim Wilson/New York Times
Seems that something else is burning on the Black Rock Desert.
I found this item in the NY Times.
Something else that's going on out here in the big empty that I only heard about once before, about four years ago. I haven't seen anything in the local press, or the regional press about it, ever.
It looks like a lot of fun. The rockets we used to shoot up (hopefully up!) would only go about a thousand feet, and that was a big one, most of them would only go up a couple of hundred feet. The best were the hand held bottle rockets."From Florham Park, N.J., and as far away as London, 100 launchers came - plumbers, paint contractors, firefighters, bankers and Silicon Valley techies united by their passion for building rockets capable of blasting 94,000 feet into the air, at nearly three-and-one-half times the speed of sound, as one record-setter did this weekend."
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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What's happened to my commentator's? Say?
look at the size of that rocket.. sucker's huuuuge.
(dunno about your commentators. hrm.)
:)
Thank you, Morsa Jones.
Click here for the Reno Gazette Journal article...there are pictures on there somewhere too, but harder to find..
My high school physics teacher did this i believe, i remember him having a 6-7 foot metal rocket sitting on the counter in the classroom.
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