| MOJAVE CANNON PARTY October, 1997 | 
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| The Mojave cannon party of October 17-19 was unusual in that the road was pretty much obliterated by flash floods. Several people got stuck coming upwash. The road by the site was 2 foot lower than it was last April. Mark brought up a little Ford car, and Raymo got his motor-home up, however. Paco ferried and assisted people with Big Red. And only a couple of people parked near the main road. | 
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| You can see the effect of flooding over the summer. Picture at left is taken from a previous cannon party. Note the change in same area on right: Mark's car's roof is almost even with the top of the newly-carved wash bank. | |
| At this event, there was one BBM shot, from the originally BBM. This happened Sunday morning, after Jef found a used bowling ball in the desert. Noone had actually brought any bowling balls! |
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| None of about 10 cannon shots from Paco's cannon, actually hit the target. No other big cannons were present at this event. Shown is a dusk shot on Saturday evening. |
| photo N/A | The camo kids had at least one very successful rocket plane shot, along with the usual number of catastrophic failures. |
| Jef, the master of disaster, had 2 unsuccessful rocket launches. The 2 pound orangutan shot sent the orangutan 10' in air, before 3 concurrent D-rockets continued pretty much in the same direction (up) for another 1000', despite having no stabilizers, and a blue teddy bear fastened to a D rocket wound up going mostly horizontal and landing 5 feet from Raymo's motor home, and Jef and his friend, even though the rocket was launched a presumably safe 50 feet away. |
| Mark got breakfast going over his 'cannon party' grill, and we had flapjacks, eggs, and bacon on Sunday morning. Here he is with his new 'bullet splitter' target. |