Apollo Leader

Ugggghhh!!! I can't get it out of my head! Die-uh..........cologne

You can see which fin got busted and the lower tube was damaged, too. 0.093 G10 phenolic is strong, but a 15 pound fin canister dropping from 1,600 feet is going to break something! To the left is the rocket from the Rocket Challenge contest THOR's Hammer flew and in the back is Macross Plus.

Damage to the main tube.

A few weeks ago Gundam was flown on what will be it's last flight for awhile. The flight this time was an AeroTech K695R. This time I just used the altimeter in conjunction with the motor's ejection chare. Big mistake! I got the delay a little too short causing the ejection to happen prematurely. The main tube zippered pretty badly. The whole main section ended up falling to the ground without a parachute because the D ring attached to the heatshield ripped out. On landing, one of the fins broke, too. The beauty of my design though allows me to replace all the damaged parts. Gundam will fly again! (If anyone wants the movie files of this flight let me know)

Here was my picture of the flight.

Liftoff! Flight was on an AeroTech K700. Two ejection charges were controlled by a Missile Works altimeter and a timer. Peak altitude was about 2,748 feet. Successful flight!

Here I am posing with Gundam.

Thow it's not on Rocket Challenge, here are some new pictures I got of me and Mobile Rocket Gundam (all pictures are copyrighted by Nadine Kinney... Nadine if you are seeing this you will see I gave you credit!!! ). Here's Gundam being raised into place.

Bruce Lee and Lyle Woodrum (who use to belong to THOR) both collaborated on the Bomb Pop three years ago. This was Bomb Pop's third flight. Unfortunately, after the "From the Ground Up" contest was over on Monday, I left to head back to Omaha so I ended up missing Bomb Pop's flight. First TV/Discovery Channel presents some very awesome footage of the flight, but they don't show the fate that bestowed the fin canister after it separated. The chutes got hung up and let's just say that the only thing salvaged was a few fins.

Big Daddy goes ballistic.

Big Daddy at launch! You can see why those M1850's are "Green Gorrilla" formula.

Look at all those motors! 3 Animal Motor Works M1850 Green Gorrillas and 3 Cesaroni J330's!

Upscale of Estes Big Daddy.

Here it is flying over our heads over at the pad for "Stumpy" (or "Stempy" as Discovery Channel's calling it <_< ).

Here was the R/C X-30 before it flew.

Here it is before it hit the ground.

Sadly my picture of The Beast (obviously named after and decaled after the X-Man himself) in its 9 motor burning glory was blurred to.

Here is The Big One after it's very premature ejection... the motor is still burning and the parachute is toast. Apparently, the altimeter was hooked up incorrectly before the flight and that is why the flight went totally wrong.

Sorry that the picture got blurred (I had my digital camera in high speed mode, too), but here is The Big One at liftoff on a Hypertek M1060 hybrid motor.

This is Carl Delzell's "The Big One" which is based off of the rocket that Woody and Buzz Lighyear flew to freedom in the first Toy Story. Big One's early parachute deployment is shown multiple times.

Liftoff!

These two guys who I believe were from Oklahoma, had their Patriot shown taking off a number of times... when you watch the video you will see that a few motors air-start. More info on this flight... this is Hal Ellis and Mike Doyle. The scale on the Patriot is half. The main motor is a K1100 and the two airstarted motors are J570's.

This scale Honest John was shown a number of times throughout the episodes.

Glad to see someone else got to see it. If anyone's interested, I recoreded a new master tape, in stereo, on a single 160 minute tape when the show reaired this evening. If anyone is interested in a copy give me a buzz. Before I forget, here are some more pictures that I took of some of the other rockets that were featured on the three episodes. First of all, here's a picture I got of the spot landing contest that was aired during episode 3. Jeff "Has anyone seen a pink and yellow rocket?" and Rick Bosworth (who also lost his rocket) are part of THOR. The big gray one is the one that Frank Uroda (Public Missiles Limited) and his son flew.

I think he meant the TV series. I got my Transformer the Movie DVD in late 2000. I bought the season 1 DVD set about a year and a half ago. I have subsequently bought both of the stes that make up season 2. I don't like anything past the Movie, so I'll probably end my Transformers DVD collection right there. Unfortunately, I haven't had much of a chance to sit down and watch them all yet.