Austin Scouts' model rocket launching record on video

Posted May 14th 2007 11:46AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

For local Scouts in Austin, Texas, there's quite a bit of celebrating going after they officially dismantled the previous world record for amount of model rockets launched within a five second window. According to a Flickr user who was at the scene snapping photographs of the event, the troops were only able to send up 965 of the 1,000 rockets they had hoped to deploy, but the previous record of just under 400 was still soundly broken. We know what you're anxious for, so go on and give the read link a visit to see the launch as it happened.

[Thanks, Michael B, image courtesy of fauxtoe]

Tags: boy scout, boy scouts, BoyScout, BoyScouts, bsa, cub scout, CubScout, model rocket, model rockets, ModelRocket, ModelRockets, record, rocket launch, RocketLaunch, scouts, video, world record, WorldRecord

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John @ May 14th 2007 12:06PM

Crappy video, would have been cool if he had panned out a bit.

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Justin @ May 14th 2007 12:38PM

Here's another video of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUs0wm4HOOw

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Chuckles McGee @ May 14th 2007 12:35PM

Hmmm, 1000 rockets at, let's say $10 a piece... I now I know where my popcorn money goes!

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John @ May 14th 2007 12:54PM

That was a much better video.

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ctcourt @ May 14th 2007 12:47PM

The Smurfs have finally launched their plan for world domination...

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t-bone @ May 14th 2007 12:53PM

The video didn't work for me, either. The YouTube video was great, though, especially when one of the rockets almost hit the camera man.

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pupkick @ May 14th 2007 12:56PM

The manrape PSA is especially ironic with it being a boy scouts event.

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