Super 8 Movie Camera Rocket - Scanned with Moviestuff Retro 8 Film Scanner

This is the first piece of Super 8 movie camera footage I scanned with my new Retro 8 film scanner from Moviestuff. Many years ago I hacked apart an old Super 8 movie camera for the sole purpose of flying it in a model rocket. The rocket was scratch built using an unusual collection of stuff around the house. The payload section was an powdered ice tea can (mostly spiral wound cardboard) with plastic dome-shaped containers for the nose and payload "boatail" that blended the payload section into the smaller diameter booster section. The booster was more conventionally built using a heavy spiral-wound cardboard tube for the body and fins cut from thin aircraft plywood. It was powered by a cluster of four Estes "D" black powder motors ignited by a scratch-built launch pad ignition apparatus. Back in the day we didn't have access to the high-power rocketry items of today, like F and up composite rocket motors, so we made due with the hobby shop variety Estes motors. The rocket weighed 2lbs total, which is kinda heavy for four D engines, so the rocket didn't go very high. But it was super cool to actually get the thing to work and very exciting to get the movie camera footage back and see it for the first time.

Author rcgrabbag
Duration 69 seconds
Rating Best

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