View Full Version : Bamboo Rocket Festival in Thailand
Cap'n Morgan
06-22-2014, 05:37 PM
This puts ordinary bottle rockets to shame. About as safe as a runaway lawnmower, but pretty impressing:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=792_1403453549 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=792_1403453549)
fastfire
06-22-2014, 05:59 PM
Kind of brings me back to the Estes rocket days only bigger and slower:bigsmyl2:
RugerFan
06-22-2014, 06:07 PM
Crazy!
Chihuahua Floyd
06-22-2014, 07:16 PM
looks like something I would do, if I had more time and money. Thought the one at the 4:20 mark was going for the crowd.
CF
mjwcaster
06-22-2014, 08:46 PM
From wikipedia about the largest rockets-
Bang Fai Lan are nine metres long and charged with 120 kg of black powder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_powder). These may reach altitudes reckoned in kilometres, and travel dozens of kilometres down range (loosely speaking, as they can go in any direction, including right through the crowd).
snaketail
06-24-2014, 07:04 PM
Man - that is so cool. Do you think the "lighting crews" are drinking a bit?
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