Remote Test Site Shoot #1 - 19 mm Titanium Stingers
Date: 2004-02-20
Description
The cupboard was pretty bare here, but I had a fair quantity of Meal with 10% Titanium added. So, it seemed logical enough, make some 1 lb stingers.
They weren't dressed up in any way, just the motors for the tail effect, no salutes or stars. Fused with thin blackmatch and meal-NC paste priming.
The second motor was a little different. I've discussed drilling the spin vent up higher on stingers (near the center of mass) a few times on rec.pyrotechnics. This device had the spin vent in the middle of the case, just to prove it works fine to those that doubt my findings.
Comments
Worked great!
I shot them straight off a large bamboo kebab stick shoved in the ground. Because of the site I was able to shoot them straight up, and the apogee, especially for the second one was quite impressive for a meal/Ti propellant stinger.
Attachments
| title | type | size |
|---|---|---|
| Stinger Video #1 | video/x-msvideo | 561.914 kbytes |
| Stinger Video #2 | video/x-msvideo | 593.722 kbytes |
| Pre-Test Picture #1 | image/jpeg | 47.172 kbytes |
| Pre-Test Picture #2 | image/jpeg | 53.656 kbytes |
| Post-Mortem Picture (of #2) | image/jpeg | 67.244 kbytes |