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These are home made videos of various rocket stuff. Please note that these are highly compressed to make them small and download faster but some video quality is lost. If you can't view a video, drop me an EMAIL and tell me which one. Because some are really compressed, you may need the latest MS viewer or plug-in to see. THESE VIDEOS CAN NOT BE USED ELSEWHERE WITHOUT MY APPROVAL.

WINAMP does a good job of playing these videos so if you have a problem with them, I suggest you try WINAMP first.

See my new Estes Phoenix get stuck in a tree. (Real Player)	My AT Gforce on a G64 at the local highschool! (Real Player)
NERRF 2005 Launch Video in Windows Media Format	NERRF 2005 Launch video in Real Player Format
See LDRS 23 videos and pictures
Robert Dehate's scratch built rocket, 7.5" diameter, 9' tall on an AMW M2200. Great take-off. (2.5 meg)	Sumo drag race between my Sumo and Paul Krystek's Sumo, both on G64 motors. (2.8 meg)
Eric Stagpole's rocket on a K1000. (1.8 meg)	My AT Astrobee D on an F40!. Very low but very cool fight!(2.8 meg)
Somebody's rocket that screams off the pad	Millennium Shuttle not having a good day (1.9m AVI)
My SUCCESSFUL Level 2 attempt with an LOC Magnum on a J350 (8/03/02). Goes to 1650', weighed in about 11.2 pounds. (3 meg)	My failed level 2 attempt with a Black Brant X and J350 (7/6/02). This video only shows boost. Next video shows the whole flight with the deployment problem. (3.9 meg)
Here is a great video shot by my friend Milo showing my level 2 attempt of my Black Brant X and J350. His video shows the whole flight from start to finish. Excellent video. Thank you Milo! (2.9 meg)	Here is an AT G64-7 being fired on the ground in a controlled experiment. (2.2 meg). See this motor being assembled, click here.
Watch my Dude become a dud! What I think happen is some of the engine blast deflected off the blast deflector and hit and burnt the balloon, immediately deflating it. (3.8 meg)	My Dude on a good flight. (1.1. meg)
Estes Executioner on a D12-5. (1/5 meg)	Only one engine ignites sending my X10 payload rocket into the ground. Thank God the X10 camera, mounted in the nosecone, was not damaged.
Test firing of PML Co-Pilot Altimeter (588kb)	My rebuilt TLP Alarm, which weighs now 11 ozs, on an D12-3. Not very high but it satisfies your need for a D engine flight when you have only a small field to fly from. (1.3 meg)
First flight of first Estes E engine rocket, the Executioner. Chute problems. (2.1 meg)	My repaired Patriot on an H128W-S, 5/4/02.
PML AMRAAM4 on an I211W-S	My poor Patriot! The ejection charge never fired! After the crash I found the ejection charge hole in the forward closure was plugged! Engine was an RMS G64-4.
Watch my 26 year Andromeda fly great on a B6-4. (1.2 meg)	My ALARM, after it was stuck in a tree for 6 months, recovered, fixed and flown again. To make it more stable, I added some nose cone weight so it doesn't go real high on a D12-5 anymore! (1.2 meg)
Second flight of the day of my Andromeda on a B6-4. Not high but didn't want to lose one of my oldest and most unique rockets. (1.2 meg)	I MADE LEVEL 1! See how my Level 1 flight almost hits me! The rocket is an PML AMRAAM 4 with an H242T engine. Short but sweet flight. (3.4 meg)
Second flight of 4" AMRAAM wasn't so lucky. Chute got tangled and the rocket suffered damage when it landed. It flew on an I211M at NARAM43. (1 meg)	Steve Lubliner's Level 3 attempt with his rocket called Simple Pleasure on an M1315 motor and a SkyAngle XXXL chute at NARAM43. (1.5 meg)
First flight of LOC Forte camera rocket at NARAM43. Click here for pictures from the camera. (1.8 meg)	First flight of Aerotech SUMO with a G64-4 (2.6 meg)
Second flight of SUMO with a H128S (1.4 meg)	Lew Garrow's rocket with an Aerotech J260 EFX Hybrid motor. The tank and motor had been used for MANY flights. Apparently the pin valve on the Nitrous tank evidently got 'skewed' and was not releasing the nitrous fast enough. The rocket was hissing for awhile sitting with the nozzle right on the blast deflector. It seems that the combustion was continuing inside the motor and burnt the kraft paper grain entirely and then started burning through the casing right at the forward closure. It melted the casing down and started blowing flame out the side of the rocket. They kept a fire extinguisher on it to cool it down and keep it under control until all the as was released. Sorry, Lew.
First flight of my Saturn V. Engine was a D12-3 and the flight was OK but not very high! (1.5 meg)	My Saturn V on its second flight becomes a lawn dart and crashes because engine pod came out. First flight just a few minutes earlier with same type engine (D12-3) was OK. My friend Milo was there with his camera so you can see the accident from two different angles. (2.2 meg)
First flight of my NCR Patriot on a G64-7W.
Here is a static test firing of an Aerotech F20-4W engine. This engine refused to light 2 times at the last club launch, costing me a 2 hour delay and alot of frustration. So I decided to fire it and video tape it. You will notice the largest part of the flame is a few inches behind the engine. And studying the thrust curve of the engine, you can actually see it in real life. (2 meg AVI file)
First flight of my NCR SA Archer on a G64-4W RMS. Great flight and it lands near the pad! (2.4 meg)	First flight of my NCR Lance Beta on an F40-4W RMS. Nice tracking in this video. Even though the chute got tangled up and it landed fast, there was no damage. (1.4 meg)
Last flight of my Initiator w/F22-5J engine. What went wrong? Rocket went way of course into the woods. Never saw again. I believe AT's recommendation is in error. They said this engine/rocket combination would be OK but it isn't. Calls and emails to AT brought no resolution. (1.5 meg MPEG)	3 "D" engine Nike Ajax just misses building. This was my first 3 "D" engine cluster rocket. Only one chute fully opened and rocket came down a little bit too fast and got a little damaged. (3.8 meg)
Second flight of Nike Ajax with 3 D12-5's. Beautiful flight. Flight was at METRA's launch site in NJ (don't know what exit). A bit windy but praise God it landed 700' away in a big field. (3 meg)	Successful egg launch with original Scrambler. After a disastrous first flight in the 1970's, I was much smarter this time and I used a 12 volt motorcycle battery to ignite. Nice flight. (5 meg)
Second flight of Astrobee D on G35-4W. Beautiful flight, almost gets hit by another rocket taking off. Lands close to pad. (2 meg)	First flight of dual engine ARAAM AIM from TLP (2.6 meg)
Test video of old C6-5 engine igniting (2 meg)	Test video of very old (and bad) D12-5 engine igniting, date code 15K12 (1 meg)
Test video of a "Good" D engine (along with my mother yelling at me) (1.7 meg)	Egg loft with Scrambler 2 (Real Video)
CATO caused by old D engine (Real Video)	First and last flight of my Cobra 1500. Nice finish, nice day, launch and it lands on top of the school roof. (Real Video)
My Nike X takes a core sample of the grass. Let this be a lesson to you. When you fly a rocket built 15 years earlier, replace the shock cord because it will be dried out and useless. (3 meg)	First flight of Maxi Honest John, lands close to launch pad, a good "large" rocket for small fields. (3 meg)
Renegade which lands safely between trees! (1.6 meg)	Orbital Transport with an A8-3! Goes about 100' but no damage! OK, I was chicken. I didn't want to lose the OT by using a C6-5. After all, it is a collectors item. I did fly it later with a bigger engine and almost lost it. (800k)
Watch the first flight of my Barracuda land on a school roof (2.7 meg)	Second flight of my Barracuda (2.7 meg)
Perfect third flight of my Initiator, lands close, first RMS (E16-4W). (3.6 meg)	My AT Gforce on a G64-4 (2.8 meg)