AngryRhyno

'Lo people,

I'm from down south... way down south. Actually its nearer france than britain but we are still british. We are the only place to be occupied in the war, I'm in Jersey ( well, all the channel islands were occupied).

Hello people,
Accomplishments to date.... (not personally, but I was very involved in both) Firing the first 24" shell in the UK and assisting in the world record simultanious rocket firing, both in Jersey, uk.
The big shell firing was a dissapointment, it was foggy as hell on the day and we wanted it to be put off to the next day, but the pissed up bigwigs didn't care or understand how special this shell was and said it would go or not at all. We fired it, there was a massive glow, and a 747 pilot reported it as a massive explosion over the islands, him and co-pilot were the only people to see it (true story). We are waiting for another big show cos we have 10 16" shells in stock!!

Have a nice day

AngryRhyno
from Pyro-pages.com (thank you)......
Terry McDonald of Pyromac Ltd, in Jersey, United Kingdom sucessfully established a new world record on Friday 15th August at a little after 10pm, when 39,210 rockets were fired from the beach at St Aubins Bay, St Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.

The event was officially adjudicated, the rockets having been counted by the Jersey States Treasurer, Mr George Baird, (whose signature appears on the Jersey banknotes), and the event was recorded by the BBC to be broadcast in November (21st ??) on their Record Breakers programme (and probably Children In Need as well). The launch was sponsored by The Royal Bank Of Scotland International, and so all money raised by the public sponsorship of rockets was able to go directly to charity.

40,000 rockets were supported in trays holding just over 1000 each consisting of two layers of chicken wire about 1ft apart (to support the sticks and hold them streight). The top layer was then laced with raw-match, onto which the visco fuses of the Falcon rockets were layed. The completed trays were then connected with quickmatch, and ignited electically at the centre point from one of our 'Doom Buttons' situated on the sea wall in front of the cameras about 200m away. The whole rig was put in position in the space of just one hour as the tide went out. This was performed with teams of tractors and trailers carrying the trays of rockets.

The noise at ignition was incredible, as all the rockets had a whistle for the motor, and a burst of red, green or crackling stars.

The whole shoot must have lasted about 15 secs.

Of the 40,000 rockets launched only 790 stayed in the trays (though most of these had actually burned up, but were discounted as they had not actually flown).