havenmeester
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Dit kwam ik tegen op www.fireworkstown.com en vond het wel een mooi verhaal.
The resort city of Pattaya, Thailand, was the scene of an attempt at the launching of the world’s record for the largest aerial shell. The story behind this attempt is pure baloney.
It seems that 10-year old twins in Japan got the idea of seeing the largest aerial shell in the world, and they suggested it to a Japanese TV program called ITTE-Q!, which is a production of NTV, Nippon TV. That was enough to get the public relations people in gear, re-sulting in the twins being invited to Pattaya where the mayor himself would press the button to launch the gi-gantic shell. Ripleys: Believe it or Not! was to be the certifying agency.
The shell was to be 1.3 meters in diameter and was expected to break at 2,400 feet altitude. Suspense grew as the PR people did their jobs. Finally the big night arrived, and at the chosen time people rushed out of the bars and massage joints at Bali Hai Port to wit-ness the world record launch.
With a mighty boom the shell left the mortar! Up - up and oh oh, it’s not going to make 800 meters! Actually it rose to about 130 meters and then fell to the ground and exploded, causing minor damage to the roof of a nearby building. Regardless of the unexpected perfor-mance, the Ripley people confirmed that a 1.3 meter shell did launch but “did not produce the desired ef-fect.?/DIV>
en op Youtube kwam ik dit filmpje tegen zou het hem wezen?
The resort city of Pattaya, Thailand, was the scene of an attempt at the launching of the world’s record for the largest aerial shell. The story behind this attempt is pure baloney.
It seems that 10-year old twins in Japan got the idea of seeing the largest aerial shell in the world, and they suggested it to a Japanese TV program called ITTE-Q!, which is a production of NTV, Nippon TV. That was enough to get the public relations people in gear, re-sulting in the twins being invited to Pattaya where the mayor himself would press the button to launch the gi-gantic shell. Ripleys: Believe it or Not! was to be the certifying agency.
The shell was to be 1.3 meters in diameter and was expected to break at 2,400 feet altitude. Suspense grew as the PR people did their jobs. Finally the big night arrived, and at the chosen time people rushed out of the bars and massage joints at Bali Hai Port to wit-ness the world record launch.
With a mighty boom the shell left the mortar! Up - up and oh oh, it’s not going to make 800 meters! Actually it rose to about 130 meters and then fell to the ground and exploded, causing minor damage to the roof of a nearby building. Regardless of the unexpected perfor-mance, the Ripley people confirmed that a 1.3 meter shell did launch but “did not produce the desired ef-fect.?/DIV>
en op Youtube kwam ik dit filmpje tegen zou het hem wezen?
