Super 8 footage in the news....

[super8man]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fi ... 02006.html

[aj]

Thanks for listing it here.

Filmed from a boat I suppose. It is a full cartridge. Must be on Kodachrome.
It has a different vantagepoint than usual. Too bad the filmer didn't zoom out a bit later on.

Remarkable clarity of the sounds unfortunately brings the poor understanding of the matter by the boating people forward.

[Will2]

Brings me back to that day. Kids were running through the high school lunch room saying the shuttle exploded. Horrible day.

[wado1942]

That's pretty amazing. That film should get a proper clean and transfer via Rank. The sound is surprisingly good, though.

[Kalu]

Super 8 home video camera.

[S8 Booster]

excellent footage circumstances and everything else considered. not knowing what the heck going on i think it is great.
quite a different imagery and colour bouquet to me. i always thought the exhaust from the booster rockets appeared to be brownish and here it seems confirmed.

as for the dumbass commen i repeat DIZ one......

u see .. dumbass-superman AJ is a besserwizzer which never ever has posted a milli-meter of imagery to be viewed on this fo-rum to my knowledge.
...living is easy with eyes closed......

shoot......

shoot......

BTW - SRB fuel:

The propellant mixture in each SRB motor consists of ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer, 69.6% by weight), aluminum (fuel, 16%), iron oxide (a catalyst, 0.4%), a polymer (such as PBAN or HTPB, serving as a binder that holds the mixture together and acting as secondary fuel, 12.04%), and an epoxy curing agent (1.96%).[4][5] This propellant is commonly referred to as Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant, or simply APCP. This mixture develops a specific impulse of 242 seconds at sea level or 268 seconds in a vacuum.

The main fuel, aluminum, is used because it has a reasonable specific energy density of about 31.0MJ/kg, but a high volumetric energy density, and is difficult to accidentally ignite.
The propellant has an 11-point star-shaped perforation in the forward motor segment and a double-truncated-cone perforation in each of the aft segments and aft closure. This configuration provides high thrust at ignition and then reduces the thrust by approximately a third 50 seconds after lift-off to avoid overstressing the vehicle during maximum dynamic pressure (Max Q).[4]