SHARP
2008-12-25, 00:15
As promised in the thread where I announced I'd gotten my Pyrotechnician certificate, here's a video of the last show I participated in.
And just because I know you'll want all the details, here you go.
The show was done on the 18th of this month, around 22.30 in the evening.
The firing position was a barge pushed into Cph harbour by a tugboat, and everything was lit by hand.
It had rained on and off while we were riggin' up (4 guys had been working from the morning, I joined in at around 17.30), and at the time we started firing it had become somewhat foggy.
The barge we fired from was 20 X 5 meters, and there was no railing.
All in all (IIRC) we fired around 15 batteries, and the same amount of Roman candles, 72 3" aerial shells, 40 4" aerial shells, and 27 6" aerial shells.
We started and finished with three 3" salutes, unfortunately the three first are missing.
All chain fusing was done with either sticky match, quick match, yellow igniter cord (8-12 m/sec) or red igniter cord (18-23 m/sec).
Calibers fired:
20mm - Bengal torches (not in the vid).
30mm - batteries.
47mm - Roman candles.
3" - aerial shells/various.
4" - aerial shells/various.
6" - aerial shells/gold brocades.
We'd planned on firing for about 15 minutes, but because of the weather we decided to kick up the pace a bit, unfortunately not all of it was recorded.
I could taste the powder residue for hours afterwards, and had to wash it down with liberal amounts of beer.
As I was at work on the barge at the time I didn't see the display myself, but if you have any questions, just ask
Enjoy. :)
A clickable green link. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzWCoQR1WvQ)
And just because I know you'll want all the details, here you go.
The show was done on the 18th of this month, around 22.30 in the evening.
The firing position was a barge pushed into Cph harbour by a tugboat, and everything was lit by hand.
It had rained on and off while we were riggin' up (4 guys had been working from the morning, I joined in at around 17.30), and at the time we started firing it had become somewhat foggy.
The barge we fired from was 20 X 5 meters, and there was no railing.
All in all (IIRC) we fired around 15 batteries, and the same amount of Roman candles, 72 3" aerial shells, 40 4" aerial shells, and 27 6" aerial shells.
We started and finished with three 3" salutes, unfortunately the three first are missing.
All chain fusing was done with either sticky match, quick match, yellow igniter cord (8-12 m/sec) or red igniter cord (18-23 m/sec).
Calibers fired:
20mm - Bengal torches (not in the vid).
30mm - batteries.
47mm - Roman candles.
3" - aerial shells/various.
4" - aerial shells/various.
6" - aerial shells/gold brocades.
We'd planned on firing for about 15 minutes, but because of the weather we decided to kick up the pace a bit, unfortunately not all of it was recorded.
I could taste the powder residue for hours afterwards, and had to wash it down with liberal amounts of beer.
As I was at work on the barge at the time I didn't see the display myself, but if you have any questions, just ask
Enjoy. :)
A clickable green link. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzWCoQR1WvQ)