High power rocket launch held on November 6, 1994 near Flatville, IL to launch rockets and payloads built by the University of Illinois' Fall 2004 Aerospace Engineering 199 class. CIA members also flew their own rockets after the five class flights were successfully completed
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CIA-Rocketry > Liftoff of a fluorescent orange rocket built by the AE199 class. Orange and blue -- Illinois' school colors -- were popular for these models. Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > The last of the 38 Specials built by members of the Aerospace Engineering 199 freshman seminar lifts off. Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > Chris Deem stands next to Greg Smith's Tornado, a rocket designed to carry a high-power onboard video transmitter and camera. It made its first flight at this launch. Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > Greg Smith's Helios-2, a smaller all-fiberglass rocket with an onboard video camera and transmitter, caught almost at the moment of ignition with an Aerotech H128-M motor. Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > Alan Carroll's 4" diameter AMRAAM lifts off. Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > Liftoff of Greg Smith's Tornado rocket carrying the RATV-2 video transmitter payload, with an Aerotech I161 motor. Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > To stabilize it during descent for steadier images of the ground, the RATV-2 video camera payload uses two opposed parachutes. The Tornado carrier rocket descends under its own separate 'chute (below). Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > Chris Deem's Chief Cherokee (an upscale version of the Estes Cherokee-D model from 1970) lifts off. Photo by Alan Carroll
CIA-Rocketry > Kevin Trueblood's rocket takes off. Photo by Alan Carroll
Liftoff of a fluorescent orange rocket built by the AE199 class. Orange and blue -- Illinois' school colors -- were popular for these models. Photo by Alan Carroll
> Liftoff of a fluorescent orange rocket built by the AE199 class. Orange and blue -- Illinois' school colors -- were popular for these models. Photo by Alan Carroll
Liftoff of a fluorescent orange rocket built by the AE199 class. Orange and blue -- Illinois' school colors -- were popular for these models. Photo by Alan Carroll
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