CIA helps the University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering department with the rocketry portion of the Illinois Aerospace Institute summer program for high school kids every year. We help them launch the boost gliders and egglofters that they build earlier in the week, and we fly a few of our own for demonstration and fun.
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CIA-Rocketry > The Horizon climbs into a clear blue sky. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Mark Joseph's Horizon ejects its main parachute (at left, not yet open) under control of a dual-stage altimeter. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > The main parachute opens on Mark Joseph's Horizon. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Recovery. Photo by Christopher Brian Deem
CIA-Rocketry > Jonathan's Long Shot (second flight) right at staging. Unfortunately, it again failed to ignite the upper stage, and this time cracked a fin on landing. Photo by Robert Brunner
CIA-Rocketry > Chris Deem's classic Estes Astron Omega on a D12-0/C11-7. Photo by Christopher Brian Deem
Jonathan's Long Shot (second flight) right at staging. Unfortunately, it again failed to ignite the upper stage, and this time cracked a fin on landing. Photo by Robert Brunner
> Jonathan's Long Shot (second flight) right at staging. Unfortunately, it again failed to ignite the upper stage, and this time cracked a fin on landing. Photo by Robert Brunner
Jonathan's Long Shot (second flight) right at staging. Unfortunately, it again failed to ignite the upper stage, and this time cracked a fin on landing. Photo by Robert Brunner
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