Tigershark=Rocket Launcer (Pics & Vid)
First of all, Happy 4th of July to everyone out there in AO-land. I hope it was safe. Mine was, mildly.
So, Sarah and I were hangin' out in my apartment complex. We both bored as all crap, so we were just gonna watch movies. Fortunately, I remembered that I had a little under 100 model rocket motors. Naturally, the wheels in our heads started to squeak to life at nearly midnight. We needed a way to launch them out the window of my downstairs bathroom, be cause there were roving security patrols. First, we were planning on using a Model 98 barrel, but we wanted something a little more...meaty. The plan we finally settled on was to take a BE Tigershark, take all of the guts out of it, and but the already-primed motor (an "A" size, just to be safe
) into the breach, with the detonator wires hanging out the arse end of it. So, after numerous mission delays due to said security patrols and my vain attemps at safer launch conditions, we launched it, with me holding the damn thing, and Sarah at a safe distance with the detonator (and, thankfully, the camera). Hilarity ensued.
It sounded like I was firing an anti-tank weapon in my bathroom (which was just big enough to hold the two of us). So now my apartment smells like NASA launch. Sarah and I have deemed this odor the "Scent of Victory". After said "Victory", we hid in a dark apartment as security looked around dumbfounded, and started to interview various tenents. We still can't believe that we got a way with it. edit: we just recovered the engine, which landed safely in the middle of a courtyard. As we walk back into my house with a Maglite in hand, security rounds the corner.
Pics and a Video will follow, but I'm not equipped for that high-tech of an operation. I'll have to leave that for Sarah.
Well, better throw a couple of smilies in for all of you AOer's who can't read.
Us:
Security:
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Us:
Security:
Us:
ourselves.
So, Sarah and I were hangin' out in my apartment complex. We both bored as all crap, so we were just gonna watch movies. Fortunately, I remembered that I had a little under 100 model rocket motors. Naturally, the wheels in our heads started to squeak to life at nearly midnight. We needed a way to launch them out the window of my downstairs bathroom, be cause there were roving security patrols. First, we were planning on using a Model 98 barrel, but we wanted something a little more...meaty. The plan we finally settled on was to take a BE Tigershark, take all of the guts out of it, and but the already-primed motor (an "A" size, just to be safe
) into the breach, with the detonator wires hanging out the arse end of it. So, after numerous mission delays due to said security patrols and my vain attemps at safer launch conditions, we launched it, with me holding the damn thing, and Sarah at a safe distance with the detonator (and, thankfully, the camera). Hilarity ensued.It sounded like I was firing an anti-tank weapon in my bathroom (which was just big enough to hold the two of us). So now my apartment smells like NASA launch. Sarah and I have deemed this odor the "Scent of Victory". After said "Victory", we hid in a dark apartment as security looked around dumbfounded, and started to interview various tenents. We still can't believe that we got a way with it. edit: we just recovered the engine, which landed safely in the middle of a courtyard. As we walk back into my house with a Maglite in hand, security rounds the corner.
Pics and a Video will follow, but I'm not equipped for that high-tech of an operation. I'll have to leave that for Sarah.
Well, better throw a couple of smilies in for all of you AOer's who can't read.
Us:
Security:
& Us:
Security:
Us:
ourselves.
Stock BKO (so far)
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