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Cool and Really Cool Flights 2

ROCKETS Magazine has been traveling across the country to the biggest and the best rocket launches. In four years ROCKETS Magazine has produced more than 30 DVD's, which exhibit more white knuckle, fast action excitement than anyone could stand to watch. This latest DVD from ROCKETS Magazine picks up where "Cool and Really Cool Flights" stops: Pulling from 16 titles from "Three Oaks" to "BALLS 18", 200 video clips including the never before seen annual MDRA Xmas tree launch.
This is the second volume in a ROCKETS Magazine series called "Cool and Really Cool Flights". Sit back, turn up the volume and watch in amazement with what your fellow rocketeers have come up with. You'll cheer when you see how well the project worked. You'll groan out loud when they fail. You'll cringe as you anticipate the outcome. Will it be a perfect chute recovery or a ground capture? Will the project be displayed in a museum after the flight or will it be reduced back to kit form and taken home in trash bags? Over six hours of video action on this 4 DVD set. Dolby digital 5.1 Surround sound.

Browse over 3,600 Photos...

BALLS 18
October 2-4, 2009

The morning light cast long shadows as the sun climbed behind the eastern mountains. The sky was clear, and winds were light to nonexistent. Rumors were spreading this would be the only good day to fly. The remainder of the weekend was forecast to progressively deteriorate. Fliers were starting to prep their projects in earnest, as all the major fliers wanted to get in the air while the getting was still good.

Browse over 3,000 Photos...

Freedom 2009
August Rush 2009

Tripoli South Carolina has been the site of many memorable lanuches, including LDRS 15 and LDRS 19, as well as the National Sport Launch in 2008. The rumor of something big coming to ICBM in Orangeburg, South Carolina, started around January 2009. Burl Finkelstein and Matt Butler had stumbled across an irresistible artifact, and it had big project written all over it.

VAST gets its name and launches from a secluded valley in the rolling foot hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. One of the unique aspexts of the surrounding hills is the option to climb them and watch the launch from hundreds of feet above the flight line. From this vantage point, you can watch the rocket fly up past you and witness motor burnouts or recoveries, up close and personal.

Midwest Power VII
A.I.R.Fest 15

The Kansas Kloudbusters prefecture professionally and fluidly executed Airfest 15 over Labor Day weekend, 2009. Airfest annually draws large crowds, ambitious projects, and the steady stream of high altitude and high speed mach busters! Airfest 15 would not disappoint even the most seasoned high power fliers with and endless stream of rockets taking to the skies. Countless Commercial and Research M and N motors were kicking up Kansas dirt in addition to multi stage and complex rockets.

Lucky Midwest Power 7 is in the books! This 7th annual fall rocket ritual is set in the open expansive countryside of north central Illinois northwest of Princeton. Tripoli Quad Cities (TQC) and the Wisconsin Organization of Space Modeling Hobbyists (WOOSH) once again, team together to bring you THE premiere High Power Rocketry launch the Midwest can offer. More than 100 pre-registered fliers and an impressive project list of fire belching rockets were sure to turns heads November 27th through 29th, 2009.

Justin Farrand
Video Productions

Browse over 2,200 Photos...

Southern Thunder
June 19-21, 2009

Southern Thunder is hosted by the Music City Missile Club (MC²) and the Huntsville Area Rocketry Association (HARA). Southern Thunder is the annual gathering of fliers from Phoenix Missile Workds, BluesRocks, SOutheast Alabama Rocketry Society, and Team Ohio Rocketry. Southern Thunder is an event on the move, growing each and every year.

Browse over 1,600 Photos...

Mile High Mayhem
May 22-25, 2009

The launch site for Mile High Mayhem is on the Pawnee National Grasslands, which are under the authority of the Bureau of Land Management. The launch site is approximately 6,000 feet ASL. Contained within the 30-by-60 mile area are the 193,060 acres of the Pawnee National Grassland. The recovery area is considered unlimited, given the NCR's 20,000' AGL waiver. The local roads can accommodate vehicle traffic, but there is no off-road driving allowed.If you pop a chute at apogee, you might be in for a long walk.

Browse over 800 Photos...

LDRS 28
July 2-6, 2009

As 9:00 am approached, the rain had stopped and a low cloud deck would limit flying, but there would be flying. LDRS 28 was open for business. The waiver had been called in and the launch system was ready to rock. Fliers and spectators were slowly making their way onto the field as the first rockets were launched. Some folks made it directly to their designated parking spaces while others were hopelessly buried up to their axels in the access road mud.

Browse over 800 Photos...

Steve Eves Saturn V
April 25, 2009

On the morning of April 25, 2009, at the Higgs Farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, there stood in the middle of a corn field a perfect replica of the Apollo 11 shaceship, weighing nearly 1,650 pounds and towering almost four stories in the air, anchored to a giant red gantry. And in the early afternoon on that spring day, in front of thousands of spectators who came from all over the country, Eves would push a launch button to bring his vision to life - not only recreating a big piece of history, but also making some of his own. All in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound.

Browse over 2,300 Photos...

ARG 6
Feb 27-Mar 1, 2009

The three days of launching in the warm, midwinter weather made for pleasant break from the world gone mad that surrounded Rainbow Valley. The fliers took full advantage of the perfect conditions, and that kept the LCO busy announcing and spectators busy squinting into the clear blue Arizona sky.
Over an hour of video action and more then 3000 photos on this 2 DVD set. Interviews pre and post flight, in the pits and more. All in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound.

Midwest Power 6
Oct 31-Nov 2, 2008

Justin Farrand
Video Productions