GARLO 2005

Alan Carroll's AMRAAM lifts off. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Recovery of a Super Big Bertha. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Dave Harris' Aerotech Phoenix radio-controlled rocket glider lifts off. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Dave Harris' Phoenix R/C R/G in flight. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D plus four E motors suffered a rare double catastrophic motor failure at ignition, but made a successful flight anyway. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Liftoff of Kevin Trueblood's beautiful upscale Estes Orbital Transport, with a radio-controlled parasite glider. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Crowd around the launch control table waiting to be assigned a pad to launch their rockets. Photo by Alan Carroll.

A nice Space Shuttle model lifts off. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Kevin Trueblood's upscale Estes Orbital Transport prior to launch. Photo by Alan Carroll.

The booster section of Kevin Trueblood's upscale Estes Orbital Transport returns to Earth after releasing its radio-controlled parasite glider. Photo by Alan Carroll.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 1 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 2 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 3 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 4 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 5 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 6 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 7 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 8 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 9 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 10 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 11 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 12 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 13 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 14 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 15 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Liftoff of Chris Deem's BATFE Special with a cluster of four D11 and four E9 motors. Two of the D11s failed at ignition, damaging the rocket, but it recovered and made a safe, stable flight. This is image 16 of a series of 16 taken at 15 frames per second. Photo by Greg Smith.

Greg Smith's Orbital Transport lifts off with a C6-3 motor. Unlike Kevin Trueblood's upscaled version, this was built from the original Estes kit. Photo by Greg Smith.

Greg Smith's DynaStar Orion lifts off with an E9-4 motor. Although a very pretty rocket, it turned out to be unstable in flight. Photo by Greg Smith.

An Estes Executioner after a "stuck" landing. This only happens when the wind is fairly light, as it was during GARLO 2005. Photo by Jonathan Sivier.

Spectators observing rocket launches at GARLO 2005. Photo by Jonathan Sivier.

Chris Deem's BATFE Special outraces a chunk of burning propellant ejected from a failed motor as it goes on to make a successful flight. Photo by Jonathan Sivier.

Chris Deem's BATFE Special heads for the sky. Flaming propellant from one of the two exploded motors heads for the Olympic Monument. Photo by Robert Brunner.

Hooking up some rockets on the pad. Photo by Robert Brunner.

Kevin Trueblood's impressive upscale Estes Orbital Transport on the pad prior to launch. Photo by Jonathan Sivier.

Upscale Orbital Transport liftoff Photo by Kevin Trueblood

Photo by Kevin Trueblood

Orbital Transport moving out Photo by Kevin Trueblood

Orbital Transporter doing a slow spin Photo by Kevin Trueblood

Burnt tail end from a flat blast deflector Photo by Kevin Trueblood

Coasting up to 1,095' Photo by Kevin Trueblood

Arcing over Photo by Kevin Trueblood

The RC glider is ejected off and transporter is under drouge Photo by Kevin Trueblood