Balls 2003 was a true Mecca. Most flights started with "M" 's with the biggest being a "Q10,000" rocket by Jeff Jacob of Rockethigh.com. There were very few cato's this year with most rockets seemingly self destructing from too much force (possible Mach 1 or more flights) during flight. There were several different solid motors, less hybrids and a couple of all liquid rocket motors. I have several pictures (over 200) and some video's I will be putting up soon, I just have to get through them all. I have well over 200 pictures so it will take a little time to get them posted. I put these pictures into sections to separate them a little better.
Pictures from the launch:
Road Pictures and Playa Pictures, Balls 03 Album 1, Balls 03 Album 2
Here are the videos for the launch.
Most of my video's from Saturday were not usable. I had one bad tape and one that got overlaid with another video. Most of these videos I have came from other video's captured by friends and on Sunday I had to use my friends camera to get more. The Sunday videos came out great as we as some of the Saturdays videos. So here they are:
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AMW O Skidmark - Here is Jim's O skidmark motor. Yes, Jim himself has the audacity to friction fit an "O" motor. (4 meg)
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Vidroc1 - Don's Scratch built video rocket with a 1 gig video downlink. (1 meg)
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Vidroc2 - The second flight on Don's rocket. (2.1 meg)
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Vidroc3 - Show the rocket coming down on a chute. (1.2 meg)
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SATV2 - Ken's first flight of the SAT V2 rocket with an AN motor he built. (4.2 meg)
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SATV2a - the Second flight with another AN motor. (4 meg)
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Q Hybrid - Jeff Jakob's "Q" motor hybrid rocket. This was a spectacular flight to just over 25,000 feet at over 1000 mph.
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PASA rocket - Pawnee Aerospace Science Association's project including Jason of Doc von Karbon, Jim Amos of Missile Works and Woody from Woody's purple hardware. Great flight. (2 meg)
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Tim Covey's Hybrid - Here was Tim's rocket that had an issue getting of the rail. It went a long way as a cruise missile. (3.4 meg)
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Buck Rogers - Here is a rocket called Buck Rogers with a single inboard motor and four outboard motors on all the fins. (4.2 meg)
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Balls 1 - Unknown rocket (1.7 meg)
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Balls 2 - Unknown rocket (4 meg)
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Balls 3 - Unknown rocket (7.2 meg)
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Balls 4 - Unknown rocket (1.2 meg)
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Balls 5 - Unknown rocket in a flat spin on the way down. (8.6 meg)
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Balls 6 - Unknown rocket (1.7 meg)
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Balls 7 - Unknown rocket on everclair propellant(1 meg)
These are video's that I took using my friends camera on Sunday. Some of the videos shake, I was not used to this camera. Ok I'm that bad.
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SATV2f1 - Another video OF Ken's first flight using AN propellant. (4.4 meg)
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Q Hybrid - Another video of Jeff's Q hybrid rocket. (6.3 meg)
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Don A - Don's hybrid that had a small problem. (2.6 meg)
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Balls 11 - Unknown rocket (1.7 meg)
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Balls 12 - Unknown rocket (1.3 meg)
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Balls 13 - Unknown rocket (6 meg)
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Balls 14 - Unknown rocket (.7 meg)
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Balls 15 - Unknown rocket (1.6 meg)
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Balls 16 - Unknown rocket (1.3 meg)
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Balls 17 - Unknown rocket (1.1 meg)
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Balls 18 - Unknown rocket (1.3 meg)
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Balls 19 - Unknown rocket (6.5 meg)
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Balls 20 - Unknown rocket (1 meg)
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Balls 21 - Unknown rocket (2 meg)
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Balls 22 - Unknown rocket (5.3 meg)
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Balls 23 - Unknown rocket (3.2 meg)
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Balls 24 - Unknown rocket (2.3 meg)
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Balls 25 - Unknown rocket (3.4 meg)
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Balls 26 - Unknown rocket (3 meg)