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And just like grapes, there's a bunch of them!

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Glenn Roth's "Grumpy Dog II" nose art.

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Grumpy Dog length is 7.5 feet, weighing in at 13 ozs and can be flown as a 2 stage.

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Grumpy Dog II lifting off on an Aerotech E 15-4. Grumpy Dog photos by Glenn Roth.
 
The next 2 photos were plucked from Dick's Rocket Dungeon while Dick was on a phone call... RG XIV photos taken by Nick DeBrita.

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From Red Glare XIV, we love this one called Black Star Voyager by Joe Zawodny. It flys on a CTI L1030. Look closely into the red flame and you can see a nice string of Mach Diamonds. Awesome paint job too!
 
 

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Like upscales? We do! Also from Red Glare XIV and in keeping with our main Fire & Smoke feature this month, check out Phil Ash's 4x UFO Invader blasting off on a CTI K 1440. Gotta love all that fire & smoke!

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Ahhh youth! From the April 21, 2013 USLI Launch in Toney, Alabama the Virginia Tech USLI team shows us their version of a rocket babe. The man in the middle with the blue cap and shades is none other than VT alum, Homer Hickam Jr. the author of Rocket Boys, many of you will know his movie October Sky.

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The VT guys didn't quite get the art ...on the nose but no one was complaining.

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Here again is Homer with me and the original Rocket Babe at a Birmingham Rocket Boys outreach event a few years back. Homer is our all time favorite author and has written many great books. In fact our den looks like the Homer Hickam Library. Check them all out at...
 
Homer's website: http://www.homerhickam.com/ 
 
Now, check out Fire & Smoke!
 
Randy

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Don't forget! Enter your best rocket photo! Send it to Verna at: vernarockets@hotmail.com
 
If you have some photo books laying around at home filled with photos of rockets, you should definitely think about sending them in for consideration on our Photo of the Month page!

Here are some other resources you might want to look through once you've finished paging through those photo books of rocket photos and memories:
 
 
One collection of photo books: http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9503191
 
Some photo books for your rocket photos: http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books
 
Info on photo books and memories: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012SPIE.8302E...4F
 
 

Go to Fire & Smoke!