Ky Michaelson and Bruce Lee Project. Ky designed and we both built the Porta Potty Rocket "Our Stinkin' Rocket". I also provided the motors (2 M1419's) and electronics and Ky provided the potty, parachutes and Chimps the "Toilet Astronaut." Click for photos.
Big fun project of the rocket on the TRA So Col home page. Flown multiple times on clustered M1315's. Also flown for Discovery Channel on "Rocket Challenge" (2003) on an Research N3000 motor. Click for photos.
27 member Tripoli Nebraska team spent 1 year building this project. First "P" (P6000) motor at LDRS. 33 feet tall 24" diameter. Launch at Argonia Kansas. Discovery Channel "Extreme Machines" created an episode around it. Second picture is Bruce Lee with Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Allen Shepard (first US man in space on a Mercury Redstone) attended and pushed the launch button. Unfortunately, in the launch sequence you can see the P6000 motor having a bad day. Click for Photos.
Bruce Lee, Kevin Rich, Greg Rothman, Kevin Trojanowski and Larry Drake designed built and flew "Stumpy" the 54 foot tall model rocket on 3 AeroTech J260 motors. Click for Photos.
Bruce Lee, Mark Uhlenkamp, Tony Cochran, Rich Burney, Arley Davis, Rob Skiba, Mike Wrobel and Larry Drake designed built and flew "Nebraska Heat" at the Hartsel CO LDRS. The cluster of motors included M1419 (first M air start at LDRS), 4 J260 AeroTech nitrous and 4 I-284's. Rocket lifted off on the 4 J460's, air started the M1419 and thermalite air started the 4 I-284's. This club project became the first photo used on the Tripoli Membership cards. Click for Photos.
Larry Drake and Bruce Lee did the first cluster record with "Minimax" with 280 Estes A10-0's and got 269 to light. Then Bruce Lee and Larry Drake tried to break that record with "Maxi-D" using 303 Estes D11-P's (M3333 equivalent), only about 150 motors lit. Then Bruce Lee and Jerry Amhrein set the new record with 312 Estes C6-0's and one J390. 298 C6-0's and the J390 lit for a total of 299 motors. Click for Photos.
Ky Michaelson and Bruce Lee design build and fly the "Flaming Coffin of Death" on a M2400 for a feature on Discovery Channel "Large Dangerous Rock Ships." First we build a scale model to check aerodynamics, then go onto a full scale coffin. Kari Byron from "Myth Busters" was the MC. On the final Discovery Channel show "Large Dangerous Rockets Top 20" Ky and Bruce's rockets: Porta Potty "Our Stinkin' Rocket came in first and "Flaming Coffin of Death" came in third. Click for Photos.
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