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                     Cloud Mine

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         We did it, we made a cloud. Baddabooster lifted the Water Works payload bay up to 19,506' on an M1939. The payload bay carried 18 lbs. of water which was dispersed by 4 grams of BP. The water formed a visible cloud which hung around for almost 15 minutes.      Baddabooster/Water Works

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               Assembly on the pad

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                          Lift-off

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                 Heading up

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                  Flight graph

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 Many of these pictures are courtesy of George Wagner. Others of us were having too much fun watching the cloud emerge to operate our cameras. Construction details on Baddabooster page with more to follow.

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              Post flight inspection

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 A lot of the cloud effort may be luck. There were some unexplained events during this flight. We have no explanation for the main chute deployment at apogee and the damage to the charge holders and PVC fittings is very different from the results we were getting during repeated ground testing.  

These projects don't always work as planned. Our cloud flight at Aeronaut 05 ended in disaster when the motor nozzle failed. This video is a slow motion account of that flight courtesy of Jim Mirowski.

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