fireworks

Tomorrow should be fun. I'm friends with the local pyro guy and he's got himself a terrific little finale for our small town fireworks display for Canada Day tomorrow. It's a 30kg shell with 2.4kg of black powder dedicated to launch it up to 500 meters for it's duty to begin. It's going to go bang in a really fun kind of way.

Most fireworks displays consist of 50mm shells for the bulk of the show. This thing is huge!

The gun to fire this thing has a 40cm inside diameter and is about 3 meters long. A good portion of it gets buried. I can't wait for the concussion when it fires. Apparently the last time a shell of this calibre was shot in Canada was as a double in the finale at the millennium celebrations in Ottawa and before that you have to go back another 15 years.

It's a long story of how it comes to be in our little community, but suffice it to say I have a back stage pass and will be up close and personal for the display. What fun! Boys blowing things up? Who would have guessed it would come with such a big grin?

Happy Canada Day all.