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This page is a collection
of the
best rocketry photographs that I have taken myself. Most of these photos are available for
download as high resolution images. The high resolution images are free for personal
use only. They are not to be sold or used as part of any item being sold, or for
any profit making purpose without my written permission.
Contact Vern for permission. |
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Photo by Vern Knowles |
Orange Crush on an M2400T
"Orange Crush" was built by
Greg Fannin and is shown here launching on an M2400 Blue Thunder motor at
the XPRS-2 launch at Black Rock dry lake bed in Nevada on September 26,
2003.
If you look close you can
even see a puff of smoke at the top of the guide rail from the exhaust
plume that traveled up the slot in the rail.
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here to see a larger version of this photo.
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high resolution image.
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Three photos of the Starfire liftoff on an
Animal Motor Works
M2200 Skidmark motor at the Summer Skies launch at Brothers Oregon on
June 11, 2005. It you view the high resolution images, make sure
you display the photo "full scale" on your screen. Many
browsers will auto-scale photos to fit your screen. Take the time
to zoom-in on this one. It's worth it!
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more photos from this launch. |
Photos by Vern Knowles |
The three photos
above show the launch of Vulcan on August 13, 2005 at the
Tripoli Idaho
launch site near Fairfield Idaho. This flight was on the
Animal Motors
Works L700 "Blue Baboon" motor. This sequence of photos was taken
by a Canon 20D digital camera positioned close to the launch pad and
using a 50mm lens. The shutter speed was 1/8000 of a second. The
images above are spaced apart by 200ms.
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Photo by Vern Knowles |
Blaster on a K660
Rich and Richie Boltizar
launched their rocket named "Blaster" on a Cesaroni K600 motor at the
Tripoli Idaho Swan Falls launch site on November 1, 2003. Blaster is
8 feet long, 4 inches in diameter and weighed 14.75 pounds. It reached
9645 feet and was safely recovered. Very nice flight!
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a "web size" version.
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more pictures of rockets flown at Tripoli Idaho launches. |
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