In a past post, I have talked about the Portuguese rockets (click here). Unfortunatelly, some years ago, the Portuguese Government banned rockets during the summer season because of some forest fires eventually caused by the falling of glowing rocket parts. Anyway, Portuguese pyrotechnics found a good way to keep the shows in a legal way with almost the same look of the tradidional rockets - replacing them with shells!
The internal components of the shells are very similar to the ones inside the rockets - some black powder and effects (mainly stars, whistles and flash reports).
You can see in the video below one of these effects at night:
This is just a little sample, but there are a lot of different effects. My main idea is to show you how Portuguese traditional shells / rockets defer from the rest in the world. The majority of these shells are 3 inches in diameter. In another post I will try to show you the internals of one of these shells, stay tuned.
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