Villagers Hope For Rain During Thai Rocket Festival

Regional pride runs rampant during this festival in Kut Wa. Food, fun, rockets, and Rain Gods are some of the important features. Enjoy the footage! This is an annual tradition to summon rain from the gods. If any village does not do this, the rain will not fall. Bun Bang Fai is a rocket festival that takes place in the northeast of Thailand (known as Isan) and in Laos. Yasothon has the biggest event, with some rockets up to 9 metres in length, weighing over 100 kg. Entrants aim to impress judges by setting off beautiful rockets that go higher and farther than their competitors. It takes place during the May full moon, and is a way of making merit and an offering to bring a successful rainy season. It is a dangerous, exciting and extremely fun Thai version of a rain dance, with lots of music, dancing and a wonderful party atmosphere, set in the sleepy rural town of Yasothon.

The annual Rocket Festival has wowed Thai and foreign tourists with nearly 100 beautifully-decorated traditional rockets, to be lit as an offering to the gods for rain along with a contest for cash prizes worth a lot.

It is based on a folktale about Phraya Thaen who oversees rain-making and is fond of fire - hence the building of "fire rockets" to please him. The festival’s events over the first three days include the display of rockets and a contest among cheering squads, a parade and contest featuring beautiful rockets in the course of three days, and a rocket launching contest in search of the rocket that could stay aloft for the longest time.
1. Is there any information about the structure of this specific girandola?
2. Size of disk?
3. Types of rockets attached?
4. Angles and spacing of rockets?
5. What is it mounted on?

Drill million to create a pinwheel
Ban Kut Kut Wa Wa District Kuchinarai. Kalasin

1. Components of saltpeter (fuel).
Saltpeter, charcoal and mixed with the (sulfur) as "ammunition" used as fuel in a pinwheel.

2. The size of the MF million
MF 2-3 hundred meters long, 3 inches in diameter.
MF 5-6 million meters in diameter and 5 inches long.
MF 8-10 meters in diameter, 10 inches long and ten million.

3. Type of MF million
Using a steel pipe (metal) by compressing the powder into the pipe. Which the gunpowder packed into steel pipes require a wire wrapped around the pipe. In order not to warp or swell because of the use of steel pipes, compressors, hydraulics, with a lot of pressure. After then compressed gunpowder Brought them out of wire.

4. Drilling / spaced holes at the Pinwheel million.
4 holes drilled at MF
MF million six holes drilled
MF ten million eight holes drilled.

5. What kind of umbrella attached to the pinwheel million.
Mounting isolated on a pinwheel Catherine came time to secure. Not falling too fast The bark of a banana tied to the metal stripes pinwheel first floor, then stick them into the shade. Using a parachute.