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Home / Archives / News Archive 2000 / Rockets, Fire, and Smoke: LDRS-19/SmallBalls video announcement
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Rockets, Fire, and Smoke: LDRS-19/SmallBalls video announcement |
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2000 Archived News by Point 39 Productions
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Sunday, July 30, 2000 |
AUGUSTA, Georgia USA — Imagine the blast and roar of THREE Kosdon M3200 motors firing in unison... from TEN feet away...
Imagine lying under an Aerotech 'M' Blue Thunder at ignition as it roars up the launch tower...!
Imagine nearly 50 M-class flights streaking into the skies over four days...!
...And imagine a good sprinkling of Experimental "N" motors (and some M's!) for good measure!
In their eleventh year of coverage of the high power hobby, Point 39 Productions is proud to announce details of the September release of their 12th High Power Rocketry video "LDRS-XIX -- Blast From the Grass", and coverage of their 10th consecutive LDRS National Launch!
To be drawn from 25 hours of footage shot at the event in Orangeburg, South Carolina, the LDRS-XIX video will feature the full, detailed launch coverage that high-power enthusiasts enjoy and expect from Point 39 videos. Fully narrated with hi-fi music and interviews from ALL the major projects, it's the next best thing to being there!
In fact, high power enthusiasts will find that more detailed, complete coverage of this event cannot be found from ANY other source.
BONUS EXCLUSIVE! The LDRS-XIX video will also feature EXCLUSIVE coverage of SmallBalls‹2000 Experimental Launch held in Whitakers, North Carolina immediately following LDRS. Point 39 Productions coverage of this event features at least THREE "N" class experimental motor flights, as well as a number of experimental "M"-class motors. Of course, these flights also feature the same two- and three-camera coverage of High Power smoke and and flame that has become the Point 39 tradition.
With this video, Point 39 Productions continues the high standards of quality launch coverage that our thousands of customers around the world have come to expect from our videos each and every year.
As in past years, most all featured flights are covered with at least two cameras, providing nice, stable zoomed-in footage of launch, cutting to a dedicated camera to follow the flight path of each vehicle.
Of course, back again this year will be MORE exciting footage from the ever-popular "PadCam"! Placed RIGHT AT THE pad near the 'big ones', this camera puts the viewer MERE FEET from the biggest rockets flown at LDRS-XIX! Want to know what it is like to stand 10 feet from THREE Kosdon M3200 motors firing at once? Suffice it to say, this very cluster in Derrick Deville's "Freedom 'Phiter" blasted the "PadCam" with a force that it will not soon forget! Team Draco's Blue Thunder "M" tower flight majestically blasts upward and away as the PadCam looks straight up the side
of the tower-launched bird ‹ a mere two feet from the motor at ignition! And several big N-powered birds at SmallBalls in Whitakers, NC, along with a number of other experimental flights, were also captured. The PadCam was used in many other flights to capture that unique perspective that is unattainable from other vantage points.
Other exciting projects featured in this video include Bruce Kilby's N-powered "Obsession III" hybrid; Tripoli Nebraska's dual M-powered "Bomb Pop" standing in at over 21 feet tall; Al Stone's gorgeous 3/4 scale 120 pound Black Brant on M power, Team Draco's immaculate finished 17 foot tall M-powered beauty; Kosdon Skidmark motor drag race; Rick Boyette's L-powered 10 foot tall Chinese Long March IIE, and MANY, MANY other M-flights too numerous to list.
And, for you on-board video fanatics, at least one on-board TV transmitter flight will be featured, providing viewers with literally a mile high perspective over the LDRS launch site.
Along the way, the video features countless interviews with LDRS participants as they prepare their vehicles for flight into the Orangeburg skies... and LDRS history.
As an additional ADDED BONUS, this video features an interview with Chris Pearson, the founder of LDRS, which he started way back in 1982. Chris spent some time in front of the Point 39 Productions cameras to talk about those early days and just how far LDRS has come over the years. Chris also reveals for the record source of the name "LDRS" and just exactly what those initials stand for!
The LDRS-XIX video will join a long line of Point 39 videos that have provided the most detailed LDRS coverage available‹ANYWHERE‹to high power enthusiasts not only in the US and Canada, but in 15 foreign countries around the globe.
As many, many of our customers tell us in their unsolicited comments: There is simply NO COMPETITION when it comes to high-quality, full-coverage rocketry videos. In fact, some customers report they have worn out our videos watching them over and over again many, many times! (We can attest professionally: it takes A LOT of viewings to accomplish that feat!).
Our commitment to our customers is simple: We pledge that you will not find higher quality, more complete and detailed High Power Rocketry videos ANYWHERE in the industry ‹guaranteed‹ or your money back.
Purchase price of the video, including shipping and handling, is $20.00. Planned release is early September, 2000. Advance mail orders are currently being accepted.
Point 39 Productions, the oldest High Power Rocketry video company in existance, has been covering the High Power hobby since 1989.
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For further information:
Point 39 Productions
1607 Apple Valley Drive
Augusta, GA 30906
(706) 790-5544
Earl L. Cagle, Jr., Owner/Producer
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