The Rocket Smith
The Rocket Smith
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Mania launch and repair
Skip to 11:11 to see the flight.
I show how I repair a cracked fin fillet on a high power fiberglass rocket.
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Видео

Michianna Launch
Просмотров 2777 месяцев назад
I'll go into more detail on my launches in separate videos. Feeling a bit ill this week that's why it took so long to get to this.
Project updates, First launch March 2 2024 at Michianna rocketry!
Просмотров 2538 месяцев назад
Just some basic project updates. I'll be at the March 2 Michianna rocketry launch, say high if you're there. www.michianarocketry.org/home.html
What's in my tool box?
Просмотров 2448 месяцев назад
Here's what I use to build and launch rockets
Sumo Rocket Time! Rocket Reviews Aerotech Sumo
Просмотров 5518 месяцев назад
I purchased this rocket with my own money, Aerotech Sumo. aerotech-rocketry.com/products/product_7db7486f-4caa-8552-fd58-181b9e8fcabf
Rocket Review! 4 inch Madcow Frenzy
Просмотров 5059 месяцев назад
You can check out the rocket here. I received this rocket as a gift from @RocketVlogs in a giveaway, not from Madcow. www.madcowrocketry.com/4-frenzy/
Estes Leviathan
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Overall good kit, but needs some modifications. Estes Leviathan: estesrockets.com/products/leviathan Estes Big Daddy: estesrockets.com/products/big-daddy?_pos=1&_sid=82ae9966e&_ss=r Estes Big Daddy upgrade kit: www.launchlabrocketry.com/shop/p/estesleviathanbigdaddyconversionkit
Rocket Review: Loc Forte
Просмотров 4929 месяцев назад
You can get the Loc Forte from loc Precision at locprecision.com/ Thanks to my Rocketry Forum Secret Santa www.youtube.com/@RocketVlogs That's two rockets from him last year! Check out the rocketry forum, www.rocketryforum.com/
Rocket Review: Wildman 3in Punisher reupload
Просмотров 4579 месяцев назад
Solid overall kit if a bit bare bones. Good value for fiberglass. I bought this rocket with my own money. You can get it here. wildmanrocketry.com/collections/3-fiberglass/products/punisher-3-inch
Rocket Resolutions 2024
Просмотров 1339 месяцев назад
What's going on the next year for this channel?
2023 Rocket Giveaway -CLOSED-
Просмотров 20211 месяцев назад
Fill out the form here forms.gle/N5fZkL4fUZnw5Gbe9 I'll ship to USA or Canada, closes Thursday the 23rd of November 2023 at 11:55PM Eastern Standard Time. You have 48 hours to respond to my email or I'll pick another winner. Winner will be announced live midnight on the 23rd picked entirely at random. I reserve the right to disqualify anyone for any reason, Don't be a prick and I wont DQ you. E...
Airfest and more!
Просмотров 877Год назад
My first N motor, and a 38mm K motor. Plus a JMRC launch and a Smash launch.
The Screech Flies AGAIN!
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The Screech Flies AGAIN!
Screech and Airfest Update! Thanks for 100 subs!
Просмотров 64Год назад
Screech and Airfest Update! Thanks for 100 subs!
High Power June Launches, and bad landings
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High Power June Launches, and bad landings
Lazy Low power launches
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Lazy Low power launches
Channel Trailer
Просмотров 87Год назад
Channel Trailer
Crapshoot 2023, Space Lord goes on up on an Aerotech M6000 Super Thunder
Просмотров 599Год назад
Crapshoot 2023, Space Lord goes on up on an Aerotech M6000 Super Thunder
Level 2 no more, Memorial weekend fun at SMASH rocketry!
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Level 2 no more, Memorial weekend fun at SMASH rocketry!
First launch of the year.
Просмотров 162Год назад
First launch of the year.
Rocket Resolutions 2023, what am I flying this year?
Просмотров 217Год назад
Rocket Resolutions 2023, what am I flying this year?
Rocket winner
Просмотров 26Год назад
Rocket winner
Big Rockets with Big Sparky motors, also a CATO to end my rocket season!
Просмотров 1912 года назад
Big Rockets with Big Sparky motors, also a CATO to end my rocket season!
High Power Rocket Giveaway (closed), plus sneak peak at Oct 22 launch plans
Просмотров 1572 года назад
High Power Rocket Giveaway (closed), plus sneak peak at Oct 22 launch plans
October first launch, Copper Rush because Copper Crushed...
Просмотров 962 года назад
October first launch, Copper Rush because Copper Crushed...
Highest Flight yet, on a carbon fiber minimum diameter rocket! plus others!
Просмотров 5932 года назад
Highest Flight yet, on a carbon fiber minimum diameter rocket! plus others!
7.5 pounds of propellant, getting my big motor fix in! SMASH July 31 2022 launch.
Просмотров 772 года назад
7.5 pounds of propellant, getting my big motor fix in! SMASH July 31 2022 launch.
Motor sizes, fun times ahead.
Просмотров 382 года назад
Motor sizes, fun times ahead.
Rocket Launches 2022 part 1 apr june
Просмотров 1362 года назад
Rocket Launches 2022 part 1 apr june
Space Lord simulation Fix
Просмотров 103 года назад
Space Lord simulation Fix

Комментарии

  • @bbutc
    @bbutc 3 месяца назад

    No longer in production.

  • @michaelc6817
    @michaelc6817 5 месяцев назад

    Low power and mid power launching beats going to work for the day! :) Much more economical as well.

  • @blakeyoungg
    @blakeyoungg 6 месяцев назад

    Just built mine last winter. First hpr. Still sitting there waiting to fly but sites are limited in fl

  • @improvisedsurvival5967
    @improvisedsurvival5967 6 месяцев назад

    What is range of one of these rockets.

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 6 месяцев назад

      I'm not sure what you mean? How far laterally it went? The high wind took it little over a mile away, but it traveled farther than that as I pointed it into the wind slightly. I can also fit a motor with 5 times the impulse in it.

  • @chrissrocketryandmore
    @chrissrocketryandmore 6 месяцев назад

    👍👍🚀

  • @jeremysim5302
    @jeremysim5302 6 месяцев назад

    Try IPA on gloved finger to smooth out the fillets next time

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 6 месяцев назад

      That's what I normally do but I was all out of IPA. I never have the patience to do a great paint job.

  • @chrissrocketryandmore
    @chrissrocketryandmore 7 месяцев назад

    Cool flight.

  • @newtonspersecond
    @newtonspersecond 7 месяцев назад

    Looks like a great day for flying ! Those were some cool launches ! Sorry to see the first couple having some issues .

  • @f62darkstar
    @f62darkstar 7 месяцев назад

    that green ring is NOT a motor block....it is a spacer that goes in front of the forward centering ring.

  • @alfredindy8058
    @alfredindy8058 7 месяцев назад

    How do we join? Where is the launch site? I am in.

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 7 месяцев назад

      This was of course michiana rocketry's launch, here's their site. Michiana rocketry www.michianarocketry.org/ Mostly I launch with SMASH though, as I don't like cold weather and smash launches during the summer. SMASH www.smashrocketry.org/

    • @alfredindy8058
      @alfredindy8058 7 месяцев назад

      @@TheRocketSmith What part of Michigan is this launch site located? Thank you!

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 7 месяцев назад

      @@alfredindy8058It's as far south west as you can get and still be in Michigan. Three Oaks MI. Address is on their site under Map

    • @alfredindy8058
      @alfredindy8058 7 месяцев назад

      @@TheRocketSmith Wow! That is a long ways for me. I live by East Lansing. I appreciate your reply. It is a shame that they lost MIS as a launch site. That was more centrally located.

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 7 месяцев назад

      @@alfredindy8058 That's the Jackson Model Rocket club, I've launched with them too. They launch near Manchester, MI now.

  • @pathtouch1
    @pathtouch1 7 месяцев назад

    I might have missed it but did you figure out a cause for that first burn through? Or was it just a matter of rockets doing rocket stuff?

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 7 месяцев назад

      Think I cut the delay too much, but I'm not sure yet. It said it had a 5-18 second delay and I only cut it 9 seconds according to my CTI-DAT tool, but the instructions list a LOKI-DAT tool that is no where on loki's site, and the site says to use the CTI tool. Everything was fine as far as the casing went.

  • @KevinsModels
    @KevinsModels 7 месяцев назад

    Some rough luck there at the beginning. Looks like a fun event though.

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 7 месяцев назад

      My ADHD always kicks in hard on the first launch and that's where I make mistakes, this year I'm handling it much better and used much cheaper rockets to get back in the groove. Besides rockets blowing up is great content!

  • @Workerbee-zy5nx
    @Workerbee-zy5nx 7 месяцев назад

    I saw these kits in 1992 at a hobby shop. Usually they stock estes and Centauri kits and nothing more. I saw it and asked store owners what was it, he took me back to his shop and showed me his high powered monster rocket and I was amazed. 🤔🤙

  • @HalfAftRocketry
    @HalfAftRocketry 8 месяцев назад

    Glad you were able to get that sumo together! That piston was the bane of my build. I have launched mine. I have to say that I got it back in one piece but my ejection was incredibly hard. Thankfully it has the elastic. Probably from such a smooth, tight, seal and maybe a little bit too much BP.

  • @dogprowilhelm7630
    @dogprowilhelm7630 8 месяцев назад

    Great review. Definitely install rail buttons for a rail guide and an ejection charge baffle, if you don't go electronic deployment. I'd glass the tube for L- Motors.

  • @ALittleLoudLabs
    @ALittleLoudLabs 8 месяцев назад

    Nice launch and channel. We visited a different club launch and saw that chute and i wasn't able to find out where they got it. Now we know, thanks for that and your content.

  • @newtonspersecond
    @newtonspersecond 8 месяцев назад

    I can't wait to see those rockets fly !

  • @ALittleLoudLabs
    @ALittleLoudLabs 8 месяцев назад

    That was as a spicy thrust to weight.🎉 Can't tell from the vid did it loose a button on take off or just all rod whip?

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 8 месяцев назад

      I honestly don't know, the rocket landed in a large pond of water and promptly sunk :(

    • @ALittleLoudLabs
      @ALittleLoudLabs 8 месяцев назад

      :( indeed. I tell myself rocketry teaches something deep about the ephemeral nature of reality or whatnot, it doesn't seem to help though@@TheRocketSmith

  • @BrianKelsay
    @BrianKelsay 8 месяцев назад

    You might do one to focus on the frenzy, I think that was the one. Parts you added to lengthen, what you ordered for the e-bay or what you did to hack together your own from parts.

  • @ROCKETKNIGHT-ph7xp
    @ROCKETKNIGHT-ph7xp 8 месяцев назад

    Nice 👍

  • @KevinsModels
    @KevinsModels 8 месяцев назад

    Great review on your projects! You have definitely proven that in snow country, winter time is in fact the “building season”. Congrats on that Arcas! Great win!!!!

  • @DaveTRG
    @DaveTRG 8 месяцев назад

    YAY! See you Saturday!

  • @peraltarockets
    @peraltarockets 8 месяцев назад

    I took Launch Lab's 38mm upgrade, a stock Big Daddy, length of 3" tube, glassed the airframe and fins, put in a kevlar harness, and rail buttons. It's a lot of fun.

  • @newtonspersecond
    @newtonspersecond 8 месяцев назад

    Great setup !

  • @orlandonostagiafever1964
    @orlandonostagiafever1964 8 месяцев назад

    That's big I uses two of those big daddy cones to make a V2 rocket

  • @BrianKelsay
    @BrianKelsay 8 месяцев назад

    At the tail end of video, you put up a box with pros and cons, a preview for next video hovered over it so it was unreadable. You might want to put that earlier or extend video with music, etc so they don't overlap.

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 8 месяцев назад

      Thanks, I'm used to pausing videos at times like that, but you bring up a great point. I'll add the pros and cons to the video description here and in the future and add time to it in the future.

  • @timothydavid9769
    @timothydavid9769 8 месяцев назад

    I used to build rockets for the 4-H competition when i was a kid, had a few really good performing ones, but nothing quite this big

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 8 месяцев назад

      Awesome, you should get back into it!

  • @HalfAftRocketry
    @HalfAftRocketry 8 месяцев назад

    yeah that piston was something else for my build. gotta peel the paper on it. don't get it stuck in the tube like me lol!

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 8 месяцев назад

      There's going to be a post build review on all of these, I think it will be just one video but I had to do exactly the same thing. In fact I had to hot glue a u-bolt to the piston to pull it out!

    • @HalfAftRocketry
      @HalfAftRocketry 8 месяцев назад

      @TheRocketSmith I built mine pretty much exact per the instructions. If I was to do it over again, I'd probably just leave the baffle out, put an eyebolt on the forward centering ring, and go with a nomex blanket. One of my buckles is a bit loose on the coard. So the elastic just kept sliding through the piston bulkhead. Probably go with nylon or kevlar coard too.

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 8 месяцев назад

      @HalfAftRocketry Yea I ran into the same issue with the buckles, I ended up running the elastic through twice. I'm kinda iffy on this kit now. I think I would do the same with the eyebolt and nomex. It's seems a bit unnecessarily complex. I do have an HV Arcas now as well from Aerotech, though it's an old version (Still has their Las Vegas address). I'm sick of doing the unboxing reviews now, I have some plans for the next few videos so that will have to wait until later. Still have to build the punisher too.

    • @HalfAftRocketry
      @HalfAftRocketry 8 месяцев назад

      @@TheRocketSmith keep us posted on how that sumo build goes!

  • @newtonspersecond
    @newtonspersecond 9 месяцев назад

    Great review!

  • @canadiansigs152
    @canadiansigs152 9 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the reviews. What do you think of using the eyebolts that seem to come with most kits if you epoxy or JB weld it to keep it closed.

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 9 месяцев назад

      Honestly it's fine. It's actually what I did with these kits. It's more of an issue on heavier rockets where there is going to be more force on the eye bolt at ejection.

  • @frankdeangelo1208
    @frankdeangelo1208 9 месяцев назад

    A great kit. I have two built and parts for a third. Tubes, couplers, motor tubes and NC from Estes. Fins from Launch Lab.

  • @KevinsModels
    @KevinsModels 9 месяцев назад

    Great review! I have one of those Estes reissues as well as a Big Daddy/Launch Lab Rocketry conversion kit. Looking forward to your build and flights on your new Leviathan.

  • @FrogglickerSpace
    @FrogglickerSpace 9 месяцев назад

    Dig it! I never really looked at it as one that I would be interested in b/c of the fins, but seeing it has plywood, I may give it a go. Thank you for the rundown!

  • @newtonspersecond
    @newtonspersecond 9 месяцев назад

    Looks like a fun kit to build and fly

  • @travisjerden3292
    @travisjerden3292 9 месяцев назад

    You can buy another centering ring from wildman I did for my 5inch goblin

  • @RocketVlogs
    @RocketVlogs 9 месяцев назад

    Guess who the Forte came from! ;) Merry Christmas man! Solid set of resolutions right there. Love the 54mm Big Daddy. I built one as a teen but never flew it. Maybe I should do another!

  • @newtonspersecond
    @newtonspersecond 9 месяцев назад

    Nothing beats a glass kit ! Looks like it will be a fun build

  • @FrogglickerSpace
    @FrogglickerSpace 9 месяцев назад

    Ahhhh. Much better. I watched the previous but why not again? TY

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 9 месяцев назад

      Thanks, with Wildman's black friday prices I got three of these for the price of two.

  • @RichardsRocketry
    @RichardsRocketry 9 месяцев назад

    Great resolutions! Have fun with those!

  • @TheRocketSmith
    @TheRocketSmith 10 месяцев назад

    Dave Brunstien. It's in the video.

  • @zog9850
    @zog9850 10 месяцев назад

    Who won the give-away?

  • @ralphstrong3117
    @ralphstrong3117 10 месяцев назад

    😍 'PromoSM'

  • @newtonspersecond
    @newtonspersecond 11 месяцев назад

    That is awesome ! I am glad you got to use the pumpkin parachute !

  • @maryannlis5819
    @maryannlis5819 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks for making great content, you and rocket vlogs are the best out there!

  • @arro_rockets
    @arro_rockets 11 месяцев назад

    This is a wonderful idea! Thanks for the generosity :)

  • @Absouloot
    @Absouloot 11 месяцев назад

    You absoulootly need to come out West to fly, we are just starting our winter season! I am having fun getting back into rockets! So many new products, it's not just all paper tubes and balsa anymore!

  • @DuelCreek
    @DuelCreek 11 месяцев назад

    Love firing rockets in the winter!

  • @trevorglasgow3120
    @trevorglasgow3120 11 месяцев назад

    Cool giveaway! I'm attempting an L2 certification in the foreseeable future, on the same rocket as my L1. She is a trooper.

  • @thomasking4136
    @thomasking4136 11 месяцев назад

    Very generous. Rocket geeks rule. My first rocket was the Estes Starlight back in 1972 as a 6th grader. My dad wanted to show a friend a launch near dusk. Last flight as it was lost. As a lark, i found a remake by Semroc of my first and favorite rocket. Still build and fly them.

    • @BrianKelsay
      @BrianKelsay 8 месяцев назад

      Estes just re-released the Starlight.

  • @CharPlaysGamesYT
    @CharPlaysGamesYT 11 месяцев назад

    This looks awesome! Does the rocket fuel use KNO3?

    • @TheRocketSmith
      @TheRocketSmith 11 месяцев назад

      You can use sugar propellants, but I prefer APCP as I don't have a place to make and test sugar motors.