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New Photos 10/07/00

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Photo #1 - Mine, mine, all mine!
Photo #2 - Smiling Rich Wiley looks away as Dave Smith and his electric shirt prepare their ejection charges.
Photo #3 - Our secondary field on approach. Pilot is our own David Smith and in the copilot seat is Richard Willey.
Photo #4 - Rocket by Arnold Roquerre.

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Photo #1 - Richard Willey's Mission Impossible which flew on a L1120.
Photo #2 - Beautiful flight to 7000', deploy at apogee. Watched it drift away. Extensive searches from the air and combining the woodland revealed nothing. A moment of silence please.
But Wait!! It has been found and WILL fly again !   Rich (10/30/00)



New Photos 6/13/00

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ERUPTION!

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Here are a few more photos from the Labor Day Launch.
Photo #1 & 2 - Kevin Devine with the large 2 stage named "LTS-1" had a
J800 in the first stageand an I161 on top. Recorded altitude 3100ft.
Photo #3 & 4 - Kevin Devine with the white rocket, named "PVC4",
it is made of 4.25" PVC (thinwall) pipe. It was launched
on a K550 and reached 5600 ft.

COOL (really) ROCKET PHOTOS!!

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Photo #1 - Another one leaves Planet Maine.
Photo #2 - Who says you can't launch in winter!
Photo #3 - Watch your footing!!

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Photo #1 - Our primary flying field from the air.
Photo #2 - Richard Willey ready to push the button.
Photo #3 - Dave's Comanche has become a regular feature at our launches.
Photo #4 - A smiling Richard Willey and Michael Dow man a display at the Maine premier of "October Sky."

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Photo #1 - Paul Askins and friend with a replica of an early Russian rocket.
Photo #2 - Paul Askins preps another rocket.
Photo #3 - A herd of launch pads.

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Photo #1 - P-3 Orion taking off on the strip behind our luanch area,
Brunswick Naval Air Station.
Photo #2 - Drool!! Drool!! Brunswick Naval Air Station Air Show.
Photo #3 - Got any wrenches? Brunswick Naval Air Station Air show.

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Photo #1 - Mike Dow hoping the rocket-in-the-works flies successfully on an I284
Photo #2 - The Gang's almost all here!
left to right - David Smith, Richard Willey, Mike Dow, Jon Frost
absent - Philip Willey and Paul Askins
Photo #3 - Jon Frost with his PML Endeavor

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Photo #1 - David Smith prepping his stretched LOC I-ROC
Photo #2 - Mike Dow launching a rocket with an I284 smoking nicely in the backround

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Photo #1 - LCO, David Smith, giddy over his recent acquisition of some Ellis Mountain
hardware. He and Richard Willey are looking at level 3
Photo #2 - Richard Willey's modified LOC Bruiser against a beautiful downeast skyline!
Photo #3 - Richard Willey prepping the electronics in the modified LOC Bruiser.

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Photo #1 - A fraction of our field. My little 35mm can't compress it all into one shot.
Photo #2 - LCO, David Smith's office is being remodeled!