Steve Eves' Saturn V ROCKED Maryland's Eastern Shore

After testing the winds with a 'tiny' Nike Smoke on a J350, Steve Eves' Saturn was launched into the beautiful Maryland skies at around 1PM local. The central 'P' and eight 'N' motors (that's 'R' impulse, baby - yeaaah) lifted it majestically to around 3-4K feet. At apogee, the rocket was nominally over the crowd so there was a slight pucker factor until its 4 'chutes opened. It looked like one was slightly snagged but, nevertheless, the Saturn drifted slowly into an adjacent field. It even landed on its tail!

My congrats to Steve and the MDRA crew, this was an amazing accomplishment! I'll report additional links (see below) as they arise.

Here are some of my photos.  Actually, I have to thank my son Steve for most of these, including all the flight shots. It was a good day all around.











Links:

Check out Steve's next project - a 1:9 scale Saturn 1B.  It's smaller but more complex.  And there are going to be two of them!

• Largest Model Rocket Flies Successfully - Whitney's Bayourat Rocketry
• World's Largest Model Rocket Sits on Pad - Whitney's Bayourat Rocketry
• Saturn V flies again - HobbySpace RLV and Space Transport Blog
• Steve Eves’ 1:10 Scale Saturn V - Perfect Flight! - Rockets and Stuff
• 1/10th Scale Saturn V Launch in Maryland - Flickr photo gallery - Jeff Foust
• Tudark's Flickr set
• P. Abresh's Launch Report
• on Rocketry Planet
  
• on TRF
• on TQC#39
• Steve Jurvetson's photo blog
• ROCKETS Magazine launch coverage (summary)
  
• Is this on-topic for National Geographic?
• Popular Mechanics
• HobbySpace (main site vs. blog) now has a permanent feature on the project (including this post!)
• ROCKETS Magazine photo store
• Rocket Men - Baltimore City paper (hat tip to Space for All)
  

Three Four awesome videos: (I think that'll be all I embed.)