Photos for the October 1997 Night Launch

LUNAR president Jack Hagerty took these photos photos of our October 18 night launch. ("Click" on the thumbnail or caption to see a larger version of the image.)

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Photo 1 - Mark Weiss (LUNAR #001) opens the range with a call for volunteers.

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Photo 2 - Andrew Pohlman's certification flight from the September launch still dangling from the lamp tower.

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Photo 3 - A swarm of scale-up Mosquitoes takes off (only the biggest one is still around for the camera to see).

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Photo 4 - The lines get long as the sun sets (note long shadows and sun angles).

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Photo 5 - Mark Weiss is mobbed at the registration table.

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Photo 6 - Spectators (and tail end of the line) as the sun sets.

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Photo 7 - Four out of the six rocket volley right at the end of dusk to help clear out the non-night equipped models (note Andrew's model still dangling on lamp tower).

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Photo 8 - A black powder model lights up the pad at liftoff.

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Photo 9 - A White Lightning model lights up the night! (Note: the people in the foreground are on the low power pads some 100 ft from the active high power pad. Telephoto foreshortening makes them look dangerously close).

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Photo 10 - A very fast (probably Blue Thunder powered) model leaves an incredibly straight trail. Note airplane streak in background.

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Photo 11 - A White Lightning powered model shows some slight weathercocking.

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Photo 12 - Jim Horner preps his scale-up Centuri Vulcan with 258 surface mount LED's!

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Photo 13 - Jim's Vulcan explodes off the pad!

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Photo 14 - Lee Teicheira and crew prep his Broadsword with the bazillion candlepower focused LED's (sorry about the shaky tripod, Lee!)

Information date: March 10, 1998 lk