Happy 4th.

BillESC

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Happy 4th! This is from my show this year. Not a malfunction, but what the lift charge from a 5" shell looks like. This is basically my view of a fireworks show.
 

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On a shoot a few years ago the designer included 4, 16" chrysanthemum shells. The Missouri River was between me and the firing site and I felt the ground shake from the lift charge. When that shell opened it filled my entire vision, corner to corner.

Spectacular.
 
I helped load 16's as part of a barge show once, then left to shoot my own show where the largest shell was 4". :confused:

I helped on another show where there were shells up to 12" as part of the show. I talked my way onto the barge when the show was fired. From directly underneath, watching the 12's was like you were describing. Amazing.

Especially feeling the 200' steel barge move when the shells fired.

There was a bit of excitement when one of the 12's didn't lift and went off in the tube about 20' from us. For safety they are required to be in a trough bedded with sand - which worked as designed so no one was injured, but it still livened things up!
 

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