Photos from the September Launch

LUNAR’clips 2002 Volume 9, Number 5

Livermore Unit of the National Association of Rocketry September/October 2002

Photos from the September Launch

David Fourway and Joe Pettinicchi Here are some pictures from September's launch.

The first is the missing man launch. The second is a Saturn V launch.

Here are a couple of happy guys. Both Joe Pettinicchi with his PML D-Region Tomahawk and Allen Kezer with his PML Quasar successfully certified Level 1. Welcome to high power; get out your wallets!

Sheryl Cooper got off her scale Bomarc on a H180

More Photos from the September Launch

Bill Orvis
LUNAR # 311

The tone of the September launch is typified by this first photo showing a Boy Scout leader and some of his scouts setting up their rockets next to pad 11. Pad 11 was a "Missing Man" this launch in remembrance of September 11, 2001.

We tried to create a St. Louis arch using two Big Berthas with crape paper taped to their fins. They were supposed to arch over towards each other with the paper following. The first time we tried it, only one rocket flew. You can see it parachuting into the middle of a Soccer game with the crape paper in tow.

The Tony Cooper's Pinata rocket flew again. This time it was filled with Snickers.

The left picture is the certification flight of Allen Kezer's PML Quasar. I'm not sure who's rocket is in the right picture.

I won this "stubby" rocket at the LUNAR auction a year ago. I have it on good authority that a NASA engineer designed it to determine if he could get stable flight with a short rocket by putting more fins on it. It flew just fine on a D12-5 and then arched over and went after the LCO.

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The first is the missing man launch. The second is a Saturn V launch.


We tried to create a St. Louis arch using two Big Berthas with crape paper taped to their fins. They were supposed to arch over towards each other with the paper following. The first time we tried it, only one rocket flew. You can see it parachuting into the middle of a Soccer game with the crape paper in tow.

The Tony Cooper's Pinata rocket flew again. This time it was filled with Snickers.


The left picture is the certification flight of Allen Kezer's PML Quasar. I'm not sure who's rocket is in the right picture.


I won this "stubby" rocket at the LUNAR auction a year ago. I have it on good authority that a NASA engineer designed it to determine if he could get stable flight with a short rocket by putting more fins on it. It flew just fine on a D12-5 and then arched over and went after the LCO.