During 2004 the late Dr
Ken Halliday decided to use Water Rockets as the theme
project for the ME100 freshman class "Introduction to Mechanical
Engineering" - assisted by Dr Andy Foley and the ME398 Junior
Lab. In the following split second sequence photographed by Dr
Halliday we see Dr Foley demonstrating a typical launch sequence
of one of the student rockets:
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Here we see Dr Foley giving the countdown before launch. "Five.. four.. three.. two.. one.. ignition..... |
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...BLASTOFF!! |
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This doesn't seem right - during the "thrust" phase at least it should be going up... |
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Now where did that rocket get to....? |
The students came up with some delightful artistic
designs, for example #19 - the "Hula-hula" rocket:
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Did it go this way?
.... that way?.... where is that darn rocket?......______________________________________________________________________________________
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