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N3OQO
09-14-2014, 12:30 PM
How cool is this????


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5narHaxq9_w

displayfireworks1
09-14-2014, 07:52 PM
Great find on this video. It appears like every fireworks display Grucci does is massive. I wonder if they still do displays that are 10k or less. I would love to know if this "Flag" is supplied from China or created by a choreographer. I remember setting up the Zambelli Rainbow effect on the second street bridge in Louisville Kentucky. It was a series of cakes made specially for this effect. Each cake is a different color, each cake had the mortars angled starting with a slight angle and the most angled mortars on the last cake. We had directions how to set it up. I used to remember all the letters of the setup, all I can recall was the last two were P and P one was purple and the last cake was Pink.
For example with this American Flag effect, I would love to see the setup instructions. Even more amazing to me is how did they get 2014 in the air. Both are very well done.
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.The location is listed as Fort McHenry, Baltimore Maryland. Below is a copy and paste of the occasion. Now we see how appropriate this flag fireworks are.
http://images.marinas.com/med_res_id/110923
http://parkadvocate.org/wp-content/uploads/Star-SpangledBanner-Friends-FortMcHenry-GregPease-e1410379386694-650x350.jpg
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Maryland, is probably best known for its famous flag, which billowed over the star-shaped ramparts after a fierce British attack during the War of 1812 and inspired Sir Francis Scott Key to write the Star-Spangled Banner.

Earlier this week, nearly 7,000 schoolchildren and volunteers commemorated the 200-year anniversary of the rockets’ red glare by creating a living flag with their red-, white-, and blue-clad bodies—the largest such flag ever assembled.

This celebration may have been the biggest of its kind, but it wasn’t the first. Participants at the 100-year anniversary of the War of 1812 also formed a living flag. One of the original participants, Myrtle Sanders, who was just three months old at the 1914 event, was also able to attend this week’s flag ceremony.

N3OQO
09-14-2014, 08:25 PM
I would like to know how they created it as well. My first thought is they are using timing chips in the shells. Regardless....WELL DONE!

pyrodisco
09-16-2014, 02:33 PM
I visited the inner harbor at the beginning of summer for a conference I was attending. I saw they were going to have a celebration and so I looked up some info about this. Here is some more information:
http://www.starspangled200.com/press-releases/1350-2/#.VBh_601OWUk
http://www.longisland.com/news/09-12-14/fireworks-grucci-star-spangled-banner.html

PGH_Pyro
09-16-2014, 03:10 PM
ive seen this done where words are very clearly spelled out .