Rockets make rackets

[Inkubus]

Put the headphones on and skip to 7:20.

Edit to add link.

[skyking]

linky no linky

[Inkubus]

linky no linky

Awe fek!

[Dānu]

To quote Dubya, not gonna do it.

[Inkubus]

I don't know what the safe distance is but I would dearly love to be within that radius to feel the boom when the solid boosters ignite. Eardrums, who needs um?

[c172]

I don't know what the safe distance is but I would dearly love to be within that radius to feel the boom when the solid boosters ignite. Eardrums, who needs um?

In the 80's, I used to attend movies at my Imax theater a lot ("Omnimax", fwiw). I saw a movie on the space program, and because the theater was curved around us spherically, I suppose, the immediate aftermath of a launch was like we were all enveloped in the exhaust. Kind of scary seeing clouds of it coming at you and you have to just sit there. It was really neat, though. ETA: the sound was just as intense.

Can't remember the movie, though.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I don't know what the safe distance is but I would dearly love to be within that radius to feel the boom when the solid boosters ignite. Eardrums, who needs um?

I was in the Rag Bag when Big Mo set off a full broadside.

Like that.

[Cavebear]

I don't know what the safe distance is but I would dearly love to be within that radius to feel the boom when the solid boosters ignite. Eardrums, who needs um?

I was in the Rag Bag when Big Mo set off a full broadside.

Like that.

Too many meanings of "rag bag" on the net.. Please elaborate. I am guessing cleaning out the artillery, but not sure of the term.

[Gwaithmir]

Aw, shucks! I thought this thread was going to be about this kind of rockets:

[Fireball]

I don't know what the safe distance is but I would dearly love to be within that radius to feel the boom when the solid boosters ignite. Eardrums, who needs um?

Miles, at least 3. If the rocket experiences trouble and detonates, you'd better be in a hardened building, at that distance. I've supported launch processing for 3 spacecraft at Cape Canaveral. We were about 5 miles from the launch complex for two of those, and much closer on the last one. For the last one, we were in a hardened shelter. The first two, we stepped out of the hangar to watch them go up. If a rocket goes off course and has to be destroyed, there's a bunch of explosives for the job. Don't want to be in that debris field!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I was in the Rag Bag when Big Mo set off a full broadside.

Like that.

Too many meanings of "rag bag" on the net.. Please elaborate.  I am guessing cleaning out the artillery, but not sure of the term.

Flags => rags

The signalmen worked on the flag bridge, morphed into sailorspeak as "the flag bag". High up on the ship, good view.