These photos were taken at Allmend Brunau in Zurich, Switzerland, on a freezing winter day in 1977, during an attempt to get my cousin interested in model rocketry. Even though I had been building crude self-made rockets and then proper model rockets for over a year by 1977, this was, to my best knowledge, the first time a launch of mine was photographically documented.
At the time, I still couldn't afford a proper launch pad (a situation remedied a few months later with the acquisition of a Centuri Power Tower), and we thus simply stuck the launch rod into the frozen soil. The rocket shown is Centuri's terrific Nike Smoke, admittedly built to what was still an amateurishly appalling standard. Sections of an equally unsightly version of a Centuri Laser-X can be seen in the background in both photos.
Original colour slides taken by Klaus Fischer.
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