Rocketry Videos

astrocam c6 5 (2020-08-09)

A flight of the new Estes Astrocam, powered by a C6-5 motor, at the August 2020 launch of Southern Area Rocketry at Mill Springs Academy, Alpharetta, GA [View]

Cars at GRITS-1, April 2, 2011 (2011-04-03)

Lots of people at Georgia Rockets In The Sky! (GRITS), a new regional launch in Calhoun, GA. But it was so windy, few people were actually launching rockets. :( [View]

East Coast Regional Meet 1991 (2020-05-02)

Random scenes from a model rocketry competition in 1991, sponsored by the NARHAMS section of the National Association of Rocketry. This was held at the Middletown park in Middletown, MD, just west ... [View]

Estes Saturn 1B at SoAR Launch (2010-05-31)

Both ground video and on-board video of the flight of an original Estes Saturn 1B rocket. [View]

Everett Stowe's 1/25 scale Saturn V has a moderately successful flight at Atlanta Dragway (2013-09-01)

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First land-based video from my Estes Astrocam (2020-07-29)

Since I didn't have a chance to launch a rocket today, this is just a video walking around outside the house using the camera included in the Astrocam kit from Estes Industries. [View]

GRITS Night Launch - Kyle's Pyramid (2011-04-15)

Kyle Riederer's Qubit on an H motor at the GRITS-1 Night Launch [View]

Hypertek Hybrid M at GRITS, April 2, 2011 (2011-04-03)

The final flight of the day on the second day of GRITS-1, this rocket has not yet been found. [View]

LOC V2 on an I357 (2014-11-23)

LOC/Precision V2 rocket flown 11-22-2014 at the SoAR launch at Atlanta Dragway [View]

M powered rocket at GRITS-1, April 2011 (2011-04-01)

Burl Finkelstein's FatNike rocket flying on a research M motor of about 9000 newton-seconds (equal to 900 Estes C engines) flying on research day at Georgia Rockets In The Sky (GRITS) April 1-3 near ... [View]

Mega Alpha Level 2 Cert Flight (2014-11-03)

Finally made a NAR Level 2 High Power Certification flight with my old MegaAlpha rocket on an Aerotech J270 motor at Southern Thunder 2014 near Manchester, Tennessee. [View]

NARAM 13, excerpts (2010-03-08)

An excerpt from my films of NARAM 13, Aberdeen, Maryland, 1971. The full video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1dxTc-C7o [View]

NARCON 91 Matt Steele talk on rocket motors (2020-05-03)

NARCON 1991 was held in Huntsville, AL. Matt Steele, who was also the event director of the convention, presents a talk on the state of the art of model rocket motors at the time, including the ... [View]

Peter Alway launches my Saturn 1B at NARAM-53, July 23, 2011 (2011-07-23)

After the heat and a thunderstorm had chased most everyone away from the first day of sport launch weekend at NARAM-53, I decided to go ahead and fly my 34 year old Estes Saturn 1B anyway, since ... [View]

Rocket Film - 1968-1972 + 1979-1980 (2013-11-05)

(table of contents of scenes is below, and in uploader comments) A poor transfer of my 8mm and Super8 films spanning from my start in model rocketry in July of 1968 to sometime in 1972, and a ... [View]

Super Big Bertha on a G79w (2014-11-23)

Estes Super Big Bertha modified for 29mm motors, flown 11-22-2014 at the SoAR Launch at Atlanta Dragway [View]

Vern and Gleda Estes at NARAM 53 (2012-06-10)

Vern and Gleda Estes built Super Alphas from Estes Rockets on Sunday 7/24/11, and here they are flying them on Monday 7/25/11, at NARAM 53 near Cincinnati, OH. Vern and Gleda founded the company ... [View]