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Video Rocketry: Fin Flutter Footage

BoingBoing reader Stefan Jones says,

In this clip (wmv), a wonderful bit of video from a camera in Peter Clay’s two-staged Quantum Leap rocket. A few seconds into the flight, the fins appear to warp and distort. There’s a raging debate over whether this was an optical illusion or an actual spasm in the fiberglass as the model plows through the “sound barrier.”

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