Pictures

 
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Sizing up the full scale airframe

The designer of the Barnstorming rocket with his partial half scale airframe (Joe)

0.25 and 0.125 scale flying cone barnstorming rockets (Joe)

Modified cone rocket design (Joe)

Cone rocket flight profile (Joe)

Initial cone rocket design (Joe)

5500 lb motor sketch (Joe)

Cone rocket airframe stress analysis (Joe)

Joe's 50 lb thrust hybrid static test

A homemade notebook paper-nitrous hybrid motor failing at full throttle - you CAN learn from destructive testing!

A twin engine shakedown motor test before the manned rocket powered.canoe run

A .125 scale cone rocket begins a stable flight at low g's (Joe)

100 pound thrust motor (Joe)

Inside view of bell reducer nozzle

Side view of bell reducer nozzle

Does this look like a nervous pilot preparing for the maiden flight of an experimental rocketcraft?

The canoe's power-plant, dual barrel popeye 100's

Side view of popeye 100's

Glen rockets across the lake

Mark gets his ride!

This is no trolling rocket

Phillip takes a checkout ride

Kicking up a wake!

Rocket Dog, mascot of the Byhalia Raketenflugplatz

Flight configuration hybrid with integral oxidizer tank

100 pound thrust motor static test on mobile test stand (Joe)

Caption coming soon!

The following four pictures are from Project HALO of the Huntsville Alabama L5 Society courtesy of Tim Pickens.

This is not a manned rocketry project but it is a bold one, to be the first amateur group to reach space with a unmanned space probe. The groups SL-1 rocket( space launch) has already reached a estimated altitude of 30 miles. SL-2 dares to fly even higher. I have had the pleasure of meeting many members of Project HALO and I have never met a better group of good people. Thank you for fighting the good fight and godspeed for SL-2.

Team members with a ground launched test rocket that flew in excess of 20000 feet from Manchester Tennessee in April 1996.

Tim Pickens and Gene Hornbukle show off SL-1 before packing it away for the road trip to the North Carolina Coast

The SL-2 motor comes to life to light up the evening and shatter the silence to produce 700 pounds of thrust.

Close up of the boilerplate SL-2 rocket motor before firing in August 1997

For more information about Project HALO visit their website.