Few photos from MIR 2000

Some photos of MIR 2000

Text: Luca Benassi
Photos: Maura Sandri
Site: Vercelli (Italy)
Data: 8-9 April 2000

This page won't be *The* report of MIR 2000. I will only show some photos whith short descriptions.
For reports, more photos and movies, check out ACME web site (link  @ the bottom of this page).


This page was last updated on  April,12 2000 at 11:00 A.M.

This was a really cool and very clustered rocket from a German friend (Uwe Schilke). He launched his Bluebird with 3xD7-3 + 8 Held 1000.
Too sorry for the (hard) landing :(

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These photos show a very big rocket from a Swiss friend (Luca Torelli). His Quantum Leap was propulsed by a powerfull H123. I don't know what went wrong :(

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Here we can see two of the guys who are attempting for first certification (L1).
Stefano Innocenti on the right and Paolo Cosetti in the middle are assembling the HPR RMS motors for certification, while Stefano Figoni, to the left is carefully cheking what they are doing (he is the first italian rocketer that took certification some month ago).

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This is the big big bird of Paolo Cosetti (on the left) attempting L1 certification. He armed his modified EZI-65 with an impressive H180-M.
Sitting near Paolo is Stefano Figoni who helps with the pre-launch stuff.
Standing on the right, Tommaso Ravaglioli watches carefully.

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YEAAHH! This is the mighty EZI-65 (modified) propulsed by an HPR motor (H180-M).
With this bird Paolo Cosetti finally took his cert on the second flight, as during the first launch, his EZI loosed the RMS motor.

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And here is the safe landing of the EZI-65, not too far from the launching area.

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And finally a photo with most of rocketers at MIR 2000.
I try to enumerate all the guys but I'll surely make many mistakes: plese notify me ;)

From left to right:
Francesco Bainelli from Prato with his Master Blaster, Marco D'Ambrosio from Roma with his Yellow Bullet, Antonio Sena from Bologna with his Optima,[don't know, sorry], Roberto from Vercelli (one of the man who made MIR 2000 possible],Stefano Figoni from Milano (THE man) with his Versus,Sabina from Vercelli (sitting) who feeded us with lovely "pane & salame" for 2 days, Tommaso Ravaglioli from Milano with his Hi tech 45 "Baby come back", Paolo Cosetti from Milano with his modified EZI-65, Stefano Innocenti from Roma with his Ariele I, Cristiano Casonati from ? with his ?, another one whose name I don't remember [sorry], ME! Luca Benassi from Bologna with my Indigo, another one whose name I don't remember [sorry], Daniel Flury from Switherland with his amazing upscaled Mosquito, Jurg Thuring from Switherland with his impressive Standard ARM (many thanks to Jurg for coming to Italy and for certifying many of us), Luca Torelli from Switherland and finally Domenico Cavazza from ? with his Endeavour.
Thanks u all ... hope to see u soon during another meeting ... in Italy or elsewhere :]


Many more photos during the next few days ... stay tuned!


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