Everytime I see one of those Saturn rockets I am reminded of a rocket day at our school when one launched. It was a 3 stage. The moment before it fired, it fell over. That thing chased people all over the place in all 3 stages. It never left the ground. That was one really exciting final for the day.
@@layzee3810 well yes, a big model one. They can’t launch a real one, 1/1. If they did that, they’d need sound suppression systems. If it was 1/1 and exploded, expect a mini nuke.
My model rocket failure story, just because I am bored and feel like sharing... This is way back in the late 80s when I was in junior high. My 7th grade science teacher got myself and a couple of buddies into model rocketry and we spent a big part of the following summer vacation building / launching model rockets. Eventually we got bored of the Estes kits and decided all three of us would scratch build something from toilet paper tubes or whatever we could find. My rocket and the rocket of my other buddy ended up being somewhat ugly and amateur, but they launched and were successfully recovered. However, our other buddy, who was the crafty / handy one of the bunch, took it to the next level. He built a pretty damn accurate representation of an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile... complete with accurate paint job. It was a thing of beauty, especially considering it was built by a 12 year old from scratch. Well, turns out that the front fins on the actual guided missile don't really translate to good stability on a ground launched ballistic missile. His Sidewinder came off the pad into a perfect arc over our heads and proceeded to streak outside of the vacant lot that we used as our launch range. To add insult to injury, the nose cone was too tight of a fit and the chute failed to deploy, indeed the nose cone didn't even separate... it was a lawn dart... heading out of the range and towards the backyards of the homes bordering the vacant lot. At this point, landing as a lawn dart was the best case scenario... but that was not to be... instead a direct splashdown into some poor guy's swimming pool. Needless to say, almost anything glued onto the body separated on impact with the water... and black engine soot and wadding and balsa fins were floating and polluting the pool by the time we got there. Being punk 12-year olds that didn't want to get in trouble, we threw our shit in our backpacks and rode our bikes home... never again to use that vacant lot as a launch range... for fear of getting murdered by that poor bastard that had to clean up our mess.
I remember in 5th grade we had a model rocket club and the teacher who ran the club made a really nice Saturn V rocket. He spent a ton of time getting it right. On its maiden flight, the thing went up about 50' and pile drove itself into the pavement. Ah, memories..
Did a few of the Estes rockets as a kid, now I'm going to get some and teach my grand kids about them - along with my DJI P3. Great fun for all ages. Thanks for posting
In the early 1970s I was serving in the Army at White Sands Missile Range. Just in passing I mentioned to some friends there that I had built and launched some Estes rockets. They were more or less disbelieving so I ordered a few kits and eventually launched them. The only failure was the Gemini Titan model. It was a double engine single stage rocket. A few flights went well but on the final one only one of the two engines ignited. It went up about a hundred feet then did what this video called "lawn darts." We were just picking up the pieces when a jeep drove to our launch site and quite firmly, if somewhat ironically, told us that (unauthorized) missile launching was severely frowned upon at WSMR!
@@AverageJoe8686 Yeah that does happen sometimes, the wrong pad is selected and when the button is pushed we get a surprise. That happened to me at FITS last year on my big Solar Warrior flying a J sparky motor. Fortunately I was able to get the rocket on camera as it left the pad.
In 1973 we built a huge 7-foot rocket out of a 3 1/2 dia. sturdy cardboard tube - with four metal wings, double 18 inch parachutes - and the rocket was painted dayglo orange for tracking purposes. This rocket used four big rocket motors that cost about $20 each - or $80 bucks to fire it up each time. With the special launcher set -up - the ignition systems - batteries - parachutes - tools - material - onboard mini camera - timer with the charge to blow the nose - paint - rocket motors - the whole show cost us around $500 back then. A LOT OF MONEY! We loved model rocketry and this was by far our biggest grandest one - we were excited to see what it would do. This rocket was carefully built with precision. The multiple motor holder was handcrafted out of magnesium and aluminum and a heat shield was incorporated to keep the rocket from catching fire once ignited and in flight. The internal altimeter timer was used to ignite the small charge to blow the custom spun aluminum nose cone with the parachute pack attached to it. One the day of the launch event - the weather mostly calm with partly overcast skies with a high ceiling of moving clouds. We had family over for a Sunday dinner and the launch was to be the entertainment. The launch site was a massive open field behind a church near us. While the set up was being done and brilliant orange rocket on the launcher looked glorious - someone called the cops and reported we were going to set off a bomb! Two police cars showed up - saw the rocket and then radioed it was a model rocket and not a bomb - but they decided to stick around and watch. Finally, all was ready and everyone was giddy with excitement. The countdown commenced, the ignition buttons pushed, the motors ignited with a slow hiss with smoke - followed by four massive flames under the rocker, then a second of slow lift - then with a mighty roar - the rocket blasted away and up - up - Up - UP - UP and clean out of sight punching through the clouds and into oblivion never to be to seen or found again. GONE! The rocket had reward information written on it with our phone number - no one called. Where the rocket ultimately ended up we had no clue. We searched multiple times for it - and came up empty. Nothing - not even a piece or part was found. We lost a valuable rocket that day - and decided we would give up that hobby. We sold all the equipment to a man who wanted to get into rocketry with his son - ALL WE SAID WAS - GOOD LUCK! We got into KITES for a few years after that and surf wind sailing.
In high school bio we had mice and were supposed to do something with them - train them etc... or get them to do something. (run a maze etc) I decided I would launch mine in a rocket. One of my friends copied me. However I chose a rocket that took 3 basic series estes engines (and I used three A8-3's) so I could control the initial thrust (lessen it) and he chose one that took a single D. (IMHO WAY too much initial thrust) I then spent the next month training my mouse. He liked to run in his wheel, and while doing it I would suddenly spin it much faster to get him accustomed to a rapid G increase. Over the month I did this more and more, and faster and faster. It got to the point I could REALLY spin it and he wouldn't miss a beat. My friend did nothing with his mouse. The day came and our class went out and we fired off the rocket. As it turned out (possibly for the best) only 2 of the 3 rockets fired, but it did not alter it's flight path, just altitude and speed. The chute deployed properly, the entire class ran to the rocket and people got there before me, grabbed it, opened the capsule (I had him wrapped somewhat in soft foam) and dumped the contents into someones hand.... out he popped, all 4's spread with a look of "what the hell just happened" but he was fine. My friend could not launch his that day and he came back another day when I was not present. His mouse did not survive. I got the A. Afterwards I took mine home, along with another friends mouse (he didn't want it) which happened to be a female. My astro mouse had a nice mouse life, making babies with his new wife and lived about 4 years, running in his wheel, which I suppose is long for a mouse.
Great story telling. The only bigger mouse story I've ever read was about a mouse named Mickey. But, he never got wrapped in foam, and shot up in a rocket. Glad your mouse survived.
I remember when I launched my first model rocket. It was on my aunt's acreage, would have been 14 at the time. My uncle had bought two rocket kits for my brother and I at the time on Christmas morning. Brother got an Estes speed freak, I had the Estes spaceship one, and even my uncle hopped on board with his own rocket being the Riptide. Getting everything set was all in the excitement, my brother went first and his launch was definitely faster than mine and the riptide, but because the spaceship one was heavier, I ran a c65 motor which was slightly overpowered. Both his and my uncle's launches were clean. When I launched mine, it went into a spiral and nosedived into five feet of snow. Good memories
Fun! I enjoyed Estes model rockets at age 15 in 1959, never dreaming that in 1987 I'd become the manager of manufacturing R&D for LTV/Vought Missiles Division :-) The Scout rockets were built in the facility that I worked in.
You and me both, brother! I've experienced them all at one time or another. Each one was a learning experience. When you "Graduate" from kit builds to scratch built, the "lessons" ratchet up to a whole new level!
This just reminded me of how sad it is when your model rocket gets destroyed! Haha I used to love doing this so much, but quit for a few years after a model I worked on for a few months didn't deploy its parachute, and broke into numerous pieces! Great video man!
tankmaster1018 It can be tough for sure. Check out my June Swoosh 2018 video - that's my Sea Wolf that suffered the motor CATO and subsequent ballistic impact. Sad to see, but, onto the next project.
I tried the F-14 Tomcat twice to get it to swing the wings out and glide back home. First one was a bust, and the second one did a Split S into the ground at full burn.
In the late eighties I had an Estes Space Shuttle with Stack (#1284) I spent 20 hours on that build. I also had a (and I still have the same rocket to this day) Saturn V. So I decided to launch. The first up was the Saturn V. I never saw such a spectacular ascent. It was good...great...uh oh...too good. It flew to 200 feet instead of he 100 feet altitude that was expected. Then it turned over and lawn darted. The recovery charge had burned as propellant.and there was no delay. (Houston...We have a problem.) So I followed that launch with my Space Shuttle. I used a deep core C5-3 which is suggested as the C6-3 does not deliver enough initial impulse.. Well that one DETONATED on the pad. It was not salvageable at all. Bad day. So I collected the engines and wrote to Estes mailing the faulty engines. They replaced BOTH MODELS free of charge AND provided me with three packs of brand new D12-3s and C6-3s. I never built the new Saturn V. I still have the unbuilt kit. I just repaired the old one and fabbed an escape tower. But I did build the Space Shuttle Kit. I still have that one although I have long since retired it, and, in the poor condition that it is in, it will never fly again. In the years that followed I joined a club and began flying some. The Space Shuttle Kit has long been discontinued so I fabbed one out of paper to use a D12-3 rather than a C6-3. I have a video of that one flying on my channel. I am not married to any of these THINGS. If disaster happens, as it invariably will, then I will just have to build another, a better one, which just serves to increase my modeling skills. If you do not enjoy building models then I can understand not wanting to build them. I agree that it is a lot of work. But where is the thrill in the finished product after the build is over? The challenge of the build is a thrill. But afterwards, if the thrill is not in flight then is the thrill in the possession? What purpose does that serve? Even Elon Musk does not build Falcon Rockets as monuments. (Great launch tonight. Dragon Crew Demo is in orbit.) So I do not understand that. Personally I like others to enjoy watching my birds in flight so as to entertain them. I need to video document more flights so that others may also enjoy them. Perhaps I will start doing this again in the near future.
Just like road trips, rocket launch days are so much more fun and memorable when things don't go as planned. Nobody ever had an interesting story about a time when everything went right.
...I've has some epic failures. the two best were: Putting a C65 engine in Centuri X24 bug. The model basically ascended in a ball of flame. The other was an attempt at launching a design that I based on the Chesley Bonstell Mars rocket which had the lander/glider on top of the main rocket. That one chased the range crew down the field when it turned horizontal at about 10' altitude. After some retrofitting which included placing two small stabilisation motors at a 30° angle about 3/4 way up the main tube it actually launched properly. There was another instance where I launched a 3 stage Farside with C6 engines in all stages. The trackers lost the top stage in the clouds. we managed to recover the first two stages (#2 was at the edge of the bluff on the lakefront) , but due to a strong prevailing west wind up high and the fact I used an 18" parachute, the third stage was not recovered...well, until about a month later when I received a package for western Michigan.
My greatest disasters.... this was back in the 70s. Mercury Redstone. Spent weeks working on the capsule and escape tower. The rocket left the the launch pad, immediately turned sideways and flew into the side of a building. Klingon Warship.... spent weeks and weeks on this baby. Doped the fins to make it beautiful. Meticulously painted and decalled. First launch... beautiful take off. Amazing flight... but the parachute never deployed. It is coming down nose first! I run after it. As if in slow motion my hand reaches out and miraculously catches it before it hits the ground and is obliterated. Just at that moment... the parachute deploys... the bottom half shoots out... the shock cord expands just enough to put the wings right under my running feet. Crush!! Kill! Destroy! I trampled a month's worth of work in an instant. My friends laughed and laughed. I miss those days.
watching these vids got me to watch one of my fav movies....October Sky.....the true story of Homer Hickum....from amature rocket builder to his current job at NASA.
the whole lawn dart thing hits real close to me. Last summer, I built this rocket glider based off some plans I found on the internet. Ironically I called it lawn dart, and on it's first flight it did just that
I remember in space science class in high school. We all got to build model rockets. Since another friend of mine and I both had previous experience, we had our own little "space race." Naturally my friend and his partner, and me and my partner (mostly me) built far more powerful rockets than the rest of the class. Well the day before launch, I gave my partner 1 job: glue the guide straw onto the rocket. She failed. Come launch day, I had nothing to attach the straw except plastic cement. It failed miserably. My rocket went out of control and almost hit a bunch of classmates. Needless to say my friend kicked my ass in the space race. lol
The saddest one i witnessed was in about 1989, in an elective high school rocketry class... My friend built the large Estes 1380 Phoenix model; he put so much work into it and it turned out beautiful... But on class launch day, when it was time for it to make its maiden flight, it suffered a catastrophic engine failure when the presumably defective Estes D engine exploded instead of properly igniting. I think it only made it partway up the launch rail when the motor blew up, completely shredding half of the lower section of the rocket (it blew the whole side out).
4 cool stories. the first on back in 1977 i launch a rocket with I think a D cell ( so long ago I'm not sure) into the wind at my local elementary school huge grass field. I bent the launch rod into the wind and set the rocket off to its fate. It got so high you could barely see it till the chute deployed. The wind pushed it back and I only had to walk maybe 20-30 feet from the launch site to catch it before it hit the ground. There was a small group of people (20 -25) around me to watch and my Dad said, " you really impressed a lot of parents" ! As happy as the launch made me. His comment was even better. Another story was as I was getting ready to launch at the same school, a city Police car drove up and asked what was going on. I said I was launching a model rocket. he was ok with it and as he drove away, I sent that missile up. He quickly made a U-turn and came back, then got out and I had to show him the rocket and explain it was bought at the local hobby shop (and which one).It seemed way beyond what he thought public stuff can do. One time I put 2 D cell rocket engines ( the most powerful offered to the public in the hobby shop) in my model of the SR-71 I built, 1 in each side. I lit it and about 30 feet of the launch it started to loop and pin wheel, The flame had melted one side almost shut. I have a picture somewhere I think of my best friend, my Dad and myself. You can see the track from the smoke trails in loops near us. Another time I fused/modified 2 D cells ( to make one big long one) and put them in my X15 model and went to the cliffs at Manresa Beach south of Aptos, Santa Cruz. I launched that puppy with the guide rod bent to just above the horizon and it was last sighted screaming out over the water at 100 feet horizontally out of sight. :-)
I had the Estes SR71 as a kid. It was the best rocket I ever built. Probably flew that thing successfully 20+ times before it "lawn darted." Even then, the plastic nose was bent up, but the craft was in perfect condition. That model was a tank. Never flew it again, but still kept in my "collection" until I moved out and it got lost/trashed in the following years. Good times!
@@HNXMedia They are "good times" indeed. Now 50 plus years later it still brings a smile thinking about what I accomplished with something "near illegal". I've done more with those engines.
far better success rate than i remember from my yearly spring elementary school model rocket extravaganza. I recall a few going sideways but often parachute deployment failure. i had a two stage that went off perfectly! it had a clear tube for test subjects that i installed a yellow jacket wasp into. She was a bit dizzy but survived the ordeal. I remember a classmate successfully launched a three stage rocket. We only found the first stage, that thing could have taken down a weather balloon!
I JUST Picked up a Vintage Estes X-15 Ready to launch kit from $40.00. I plan on taking my Grand Kids to a park or open field and launching it this summer! I had one when I was in my teens and it was my all time FAV Rocket to fly! :D
@@brdplaysgames2231 I don't know if he say that in reference of the V2 cause France got attacked by 76 v2 (succefuly and disfonction lunch include), and even belgium got attacked 1 610 times only in in the town of Anvers, london got attacked 1358time by v2 so idk why he say that lmao ;)
Building Estes rockets 50 years ago, nothing was pre-fabricated. You got a kit with instructions and pieces of balsa wood and heavy cardboard, you had to build it all yourself. Getting the fins mounted correctly and at the precise angle was a challenge, and you had to coat the seams onto the body of the rocket to make a fillet with about 3 coats of Elmer's glue to make a strong bond. Painting the entire rocket was essential for cutting down air friction. You got the parachute of course, and a patch of fiberglass insulation to protect it. What my brothers seemed to forget is that you have to use profuse amounts of talcum powder on every surface of the parachute to make certain it opens. Back then, if you were high-tech (and had the money) you could get a cam-roc through the mail that took a snapshot of the descent. When the cine-roc came out, which took 8 mm footage, it was about $200.00. Only the rich kid's Dads bought those. When the Estes Apollo rocket came out, it stood over 3' tall and took 5 "D" engines. You could hear it take off about a mile away! Only the rich kid's Dads bought those, too. But we ALL got a rush watching it!!
I have 2 incredible stories I'd like to share. 1) I was flying with the CRASH club out of Denver, they organised a "landing" event, bring a rocket lauch it, the one who lands the closest to the launch pad wins... Everyone had his special trick, we talked about it for a week, the day of the event we were about 30 trying for glory, the 8 rod pad was loaded, first to go, a dad and his son on pad one. 3...2...1...launch ! The ship goes up arcs into the wind, deploys his Estes chute and floats back... to hang on the rod it just took of from... Imposible to best that ! We all shot anyway and nobody got within 20 ft of the pad... 2) Same rules but for duration, bring anything you want, the longest flight wins, but the judges have to be able to see the ship land... It was cold, and there was snow on the ground. The night before I hurriedly put thogether an Alpha III with a chute made from a trashbag, 2 times bigger than the original. Next day I was there just to participate, I could not win against all those "specials" the experts had build. My trun comes, up he goes into the wind, deploys... nice black round chute... is comming in... then, about 100 ft up it stops descending, it passes in front of us and continues down wind climbig ! It climbs 10-15 ft then descends then repeats... 3 of us took off after on foot, after crossing to wire fences we lost sight, It never landed ! I never found it ! Later on an engineer explained : "You got so lucky, the wind, temperature and chute size were right... the sun heated the air under the black chute and created lift, it was enought to lose your ship..." well I lost anyway...
In 1972 I built an Estes X-Ray with the clear tube payload. Launched it in the field of my high school about a half mile from my home. It went up, and the payload separated from the body tube and the shock cord. The body landed in the field, the payload floated off to who knows where. When I got home, the payload tube and parachute were tangled in the telephone pole power lines behind our house! I left it there until it disappeared of natural causes.
You know your an experienced rocketeer when you been through all of these plus some. My homemade untested on lifted off, did a 90 degree then u turn right at me. Lol. No cell phones in those days. Always fun. Thanks for sharing
I used to be so scared of them as the ones we had were a bit loud (at least to a 3 year old lol). I'd hide just inside the front door and watch them, then run outside and run through the field with my dad and brother to retrieve them. It's kind of ironic. I used to be afraid of little model rockets. Now I watch real rockets launch very often and I have the most giddy, excited love for that sound. You feel it throughout your whole body. It's so powerful and yet I love it. I had a moment recently where my dad came to see a rocket launch with me. I had this sudden flashback of being on our farm setting them off with him and watching them launch. Here we were, watching a real rocket launch together, standing just as we did when I was a kid and teenager watching model rockets. Now if only the rocket he made me out of boxes to play in made from boxes and old controllers, remotes, and his old 2 way marine radio could mirror real life 😂 I'd do anything to be inside one of those real rockets!
Back in 1964, I was building model rockets from kits by Estes, but couldn't get engines. The state fire marshal in California had decreed that all model rocket engines were fireworks and were forbidden. While stationed at Kodiak AK with the Navy, I built a good model V-2 with original Von Braun patterned black-and-white paint, AND was able to get engines. I launched it from the top of Old Woman Mountain; it went up 1500 feet, popped the chute, and sailed out to sea,.... I never saw it again. Other rockets were launched with no chute and they would go far up-wind, and then tumble down and land right at the launch-area.
My brother and I used to do this back in our teens. He bought one from Estes called the Screamer. At .22 oz, It was the lightest rocket they had. But he wanted it to go as high as possible, so he left out the streamer and glued the nose cone. He sanded down the leading and trailing edges of the fins, hollowed out the nose cone, did everything possible to make it as light as possible, got it down to something like .15 oz. Then came launch day. He jammed the biggest motor that would fit into it, let it rip, and we never saw it again. We figure it made it into orbit.
I did model rockets as a kid, and I learned an important lesson in regards to parachute packing. Always pack your chute right before you launch! If you pack it the night before, it deploys slower if not at all!! And if you have some; a little baby powder never hurts!!
You are correct, they should be unpacked before launch, dusted in baby powder and then packed for launch. They should also be attached with a fishermans swivel. This will stop them from spooling and binding on themselves.
@@baltsosser NO. YOU CANNOT USE UNTREATED TOILET TISSUE AS WADDING EVER, DO YOU WANT TO START A WILDFIRE? Those embers float for miles at times. *Toilet Tissue is FLAMMABLE.* If you want to save money on "Wadding" buy a bale of treated Paper Attic Insulation (We call that "Dog Barf") Flame Retardant Crepe Paper also works. Or you can MAKE YOUR OWN WADDING by using a roll of Toilet Tissue WHICH MUST BE TREATED SO THAT IT IS FLAME RETARDANT.. Make a saturated Baking Soda/Water solution by boiling water, adding Baking Sosa, until it will not take anymore, Then place the roll of Toilet Tissue into the hot solution to soak up as much of the solution as possible. Then allow the solution and Toilet Tissue to cool. Then take the TREATED Toilet Tissue out of the solution and dry it thoroughly. Do not trap the moisture otherwise it will mildew. Hang the roll through the roll core when drying.. It is Flame Retardant at that point. And that is how the commercially available wadding is made. But buying a bale of "Dog Barf" that commercially available Attic Insulation,at your local Hardware store is the best bang for your buck and the least hassle. I do not need any wildfires set by ignorant people so that it gives the authorities an excuse to ban this sport.
@Greg Moonen Baby Powder is talcum powder sans perfume. I am concerned about fire. Parachutes can catch fire. Anything that decreases the chances of fire is best in my opinion. But I am in SoCal where wildfires are a problem...much worse than Earthquakes.
@@craighatzi6559 The Estes Comanche III will fly to 2500 feet.. The flight ceiling at Fiesta Island in San Diego, California is 1500 feet due to the proximity of the launch site to San Diego International Airport. The club needs FAA clearance in order to fly and can only fly during the specified launch windows, during a club sanctioned meet....period. That, however, is *the EXCEPTION,* and not the rule. It is also against the law to fly rockets at any other site in San Diego County. Yet in Phoenix, AZ you can fly at any City Park at any time. *There are NO FAA altitude restrictions when flying Class 1 Model Rockets.* That does not mean that gives you license to fly them dangerously. On the other hand there ARE *propellant weight restrictions* that serve to restrict possible altitudes. But I can easily fly rockets to 2500 feet within those guidelines. And modifying a Estes Comanche III to fly on 3 D12s I can probably fly one to 4000 feet as I have 1.5 times the impulse. If you choose to try the feat then you will need to add some weight to the nose to ensure stability as the Rocket's Center of Gravity must be one caliber's (one rocket diameter) distance ahead of the Center of Pressure. It is unwise to have an unstable flight with that much impulse. iOW...Kids...If you do not know what you are doing then DO NOT. (But as for retrieving the rocket on the other hand??? The parks are not that big and there are those damned rocket eating trees and surrounding neighborhoods to contend with. And I am not into setting someone's roof to their house ablaze. So I'd launch in the river bottom outside of the city...in...let's say...November when it cools off? But then I'd have to deal with the stupid Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputies who do not know the law like the Phoenix PD.) As a scale modeler I am not going after altitude as I am far more interested in actually seeing the rocket in flight. If and when I get into High Power Rocketry then that will change.
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@@24kGoldenRocket Geez, back in the 60s / early 70s we just took them to the local football field and fired away. So many rules and restrictions now....
@ Same here, we used to walk to the local school yard. These days having a model rocket means you might be a terrorist so we need to outlaw that sort of thing. But then, we used to live in a free country.
This reminds me of two misadventures in my youth. My next door neighbor launched an Estes Big Bertha. For those who don't know, it uses a three engine cluster. At launch apparently only one engine lit so the rocket cleared the launch rod and took a hard left turn right for the neighbor's house. Fortunately, no fire or property damage. The other occasion was when I flew an Estes X-Ray. The X-Ray has a clear payload section about the size of a roll of quarters. I put a small field mouse in the payload. Launch was beautiful, that is until the engine burn ended and the chute never popped. Needless to say, we didn't even try to recover that one
In high school a group of us had a rocket club. Build rockets then launch them in a empty park (empty of the parking lot, softball fields, and gym build years later). Saturn V model was majestic as it slowly rose on its pillar of fire. The multistage rockets often went out of sight, 2nd or 3rd stage never to be seen again. Of course our one genius, calculated his way to building a wingless model, which went "Foxtrot Charlie" the instant it left the rail, and had us kissing the ground. The fuse falling out at ignition and "fire on the pad". Good Times.
How many G's would our intrepid Col. Hamsternaut feel anyway? Would he be aware of the fact that he's airborne? Then a momentary pause in acceleration, then a "Pop!" as the chute deploys.. If all goes well, he has a soft landing. There was a girl lived down the street from me in the mid 70s, I don't remember her name. She was hamster crazy. She launched a hamster in a rocket. I don't remember whether it lived or not. And yes, we actually played with lawn darts, real ones, like a steel spike with plastic fins. Throw them at people you don't like! Amuse your friends!
I have a feeling that the model rocketeers of the world would say that "KSP is pretty Estes." They've been doing it a lot longer, after all. Source: 35 years ago I accidentally put a model rocket through the rear windshield of a (parked) city policeman's car. Thus endeth the promising career of a budding young Von Braun.
that one shot that leveled off reminded me of my days of building them, my buddy and I both built the same two stage rockets, and the first launch of each had a problem, one destroyed the first stage, while the other leveled off before the second stage ignited, the first stage was all we had left of it, as the second stage did an "exit stage left" at a very high rate of speed, and a nearly flat trajectory, and we never found it.
I happened across this and it brings back memories. Way back in the cave-man days of the 1960s, I was in a private high school, Tome School, in Port Deposit, MD. This kid in my 9th grade class, Johnny Bouchelle, got us into model rockets. We would launch our creations, always Estes rockets, in the huge ball field. I assume that, after all these years, the rockets, launchers and the solid-fuel engines have become much more sophisticated than the cardboard-tube, balsa-winged models that I struggled to assemble. Do you remember the Estes Big Bertha? I had one of those. Thanks for a fun video
Ah yes, the big bertha. I used to put a few of those small parachute men (the really small ones) into the rocket with the 'chute. when it would pop a bunch of little parachute guys would come raining down. the kids loved it.
Best advice from someone who's been launching them since 1984. Always pat down your parachute with some talcum/baby powder before packing it. Always worked for me.
50 years ago my brother taught me the best trick for deployment. A dusting of baby powder on the plastic chute and where the nose cone slides into the body. One time was all it took.
Love the famous - almost - last words.... "oh oh"... Ive said them a ton, and ive still got 8 fingers, two thumbs and all my toes... yeah, im boasting... 'cause i know ive said those words A LOT!
Here's my idea of an interesting model rocket: One that launches carrying a lunar module on top. Once the rocket reaches the apex of its flight, engine shuts off, the lunar module is released and the rocket parachutes back to earth. Meanwhile, the descent engine of the lunar module fires and operates until it touches down at Tranquility Base. Has any model rocket builder attempted such a thing?
Back in the day, I had a two stage Estes-powered rocket. The first stage ignited a wax-covered fireworks fuse going into the second stage. This fuse created a delay so the upper stage was aiming downward, as planned, when the rocket ignited. It crashed into a nearby corn field at warp speed. Since it was well after growing season, the field was covered in dry husks which caught on fire requiring a call to the fire department. The Apollo Program was never faced with a burning corn field.
I did about the same thing using a mercury switch and the battery out of a Polaroid film pack. Admittedly we were going for an actual second stage lunch... then we started going for depth.
My 6yo son launched a rocket he got for Christmas. We had mistaken the higher altitude wind and after chute deployment the wind carried it into a neighborhood of houses. We were not hopeful in finding it, but his Grandmother saved the day when she picked it up in a front yard of a house. All around it were trees, telephone poles and more trees. How it missed all that I will never know.
I had a Summer School Rockery Class !!!Our teacher was the best ever!! Before we even touched rickets air planes..he made sure we under stood the engineering airourdynamics" wind tunnel tested" before allowed on the launch pad ! I built a stunt air plain sting guided...The next summer I built a 3 Stage of the Space Shuttle ..Complete with an airplane attached to the main rocket..3 Stage 1 dc0 Stage 2 do Stage 3 c6 7..witch dislodged the plain witch had aliorones to circle the parachute ing rocket together
While (mostly) entertaining to us viewers, I have experienced the heartache of a Launch "Grenade" as well as a clean launch then 20' of altitude and the center of the sun comes blasting out the side of the engine area, raining molten engine components towards earth. Then the Lawn Darts, and many as seen in this video. Now if ONLY someone would have a class for videographers to attend to teach them how to keep the camera relatively (!) still. That or insist they refrain from caffeinated beverages while filming. LMAO Thank you for posting this.
For high-value models, it pays to use a custom parachute not made of plastic. I find cotton, nylon, and silk fabrics work well and do not suffer from packing fatigue as badly as plastic ones. That said, extra wadding is a good idea with these to prevent any burns. A bit of talcum (about a teaspoon) in the chute makes a nice puff of white to spot the chute by.
I've had nearly every one of those kinds of failures (and several others not found here). I'm not sure if that makes me really experienced or really bad at rocketry.
I used to skip the parachute and dump a few ounces of gunpowder in there instead.. glue the nosecone on and you've got a missile! With longer delay charges and a little practice, I actually got pretty good at hitting ground targets a few hundred feet away.. good times lol
I wonder if they still do those things where you train a mouse to get used to the rapid G force increase, then put it in a rocket, and finally launch the mouse up into near space.
Wow, some of these are still the same rockets Estes was selling when _I_ was a kid, nearly 30 years ago! ...not sure whether that makes me feel younger or _older._ 😑
*YES!* But with solid rocket motors you can't throttle down! I have lost many a scratch built rocket to Max-Q failures. Always spectacular to watch, thought! Yes, yes, yes yes.... Damn! ... Welp, scrap that design and move onto the next one. ( Never get too attached to any one rocket design)
Those lawn darts are scary. It's not the crashed rocket you worry about. It's coming in pointed end first and fast. You just hope it misses everybody when it hits. I had one last year, went in about 8" deep. Thank God it missed the spectator area.
Had a lawn dart once, when the ejection charge blew the engine mount out the back instead of the nose cone off the front. :-) Pranged in neighboring garden.
Use Baking Soda instead as it is a Flame Retardant. You will save your chute if you failed to use enough wadding or when the Recovery Charge is too hot..
@ In the 1970s I used to walk down street in SoCal suburbs with loaded guns as I was headed out to do some shooting and target practice. The San Diego Sheriff Deputies would drive on by and wave. I'd not do that today as I'd be shot. The Cedar Fire in 2006 burned a full 25% of the acreage in San Diego County. Back in the day I'd fire off rockets at the local schoolyard too. But we have too many idiots now as those who suggest using toilet paper as wadding, or,those who have no clue what "Baby Powder" is. And the schoolyards are now closed after school due to liability insurance requirements and due to our litigious populace who will sue over the drop of a fucking hat. Maybe that is why the damned rules and regulations are enacted. And you attack me as if I am the one who is personally responsible for writing the rules and regulations? I am not setting the county ablaze. And while I render some financial support as I am forced to pay taxes I do not agree with all of the regulations.. I believe in self regulation. That is what the flying clubs do I am not one who easily and willingly trades liberty for safety. But today is NOT "back in the day" when common sense ruled. It is common fucking sense to NOT expose materials to temperatures that exceed the flash point if you do not intend to ignite them. While talc will work and coat internal walls of rockets over time, Baking Soda is better as it absorbs heat while it breaks down into a gas...releasing Carbon Dioxide That is simple Chemistry. And when heat is taken away, along with the release of Carbon Dioxide, then the likelihood of ignition is minimized. This is what you are supposed to learn about in your High School Chemistry course. Common sense is not so common these days. So we get rules and regulations as a result. Look into the mirror, pal. You are one of the reasons why. Today there are children who never are even allowed to play outside or ride their bikes down the streets. There are children in LOCKDOWN in schools, with guards patrolling the hallways. How are they to learn?
I used to build and launch model rockets in the early 80's. The Estes engines were quite expensive. Once I had one shroud line come loose so that part of the chute allowed a stream of air to flow out. That made it act like a glider so it traveled way off into a neighboring field. I had plenty of chutes fail to deploy, a few that suffered partial melting, some engines that popped out instead of popping the nose off. Never had any explode, or fail to get off the pad, nor did any shred mid-flight from too much power.
A motor failure, generally explosive, where all the propellant is burned in a much shorter time than planned. This can be a nozzle blow-out (loud, but basically harmless), an end-cap blow-out (where all of the pyrotechnic force blows FORWARD which usually does a pretty good job of removing any internal structure including the recovery system) or a casing rupture which has unpredictable, but usually devastating, effects. Another form of CATO is an ejection failure caused by either the delay train failing to burn or the ejection charge not firing, but the result is the same: the model prangs. Opinions on the meaning of the acronym range widely. Some say it's not an acronym at all, but simply a contraction of 'catastrophic' and should be pronounced 'Cat-o' (which sounds better than 'cata' over PA systems :-). Others maintain that it is an acronym but disagree on the meaning, offering a broad spectrum of 'CAtastrophic Take Off,' 'Catastrophically Aborted Take Off,' 'Catastrophe At Take Off' and the self referential 'CATO At Take Off.' The acronym crowd pronounces it 'Kay-Tow', like the Green Hornet's side kick. It has been pointed out, though, that all of the above are 'post-hoc' definitions since LCO's were using the term over range PA systems long before any formal acronym was established. source: stason.org/TULARC/recreation/model-rockets/1-7-What-is-a-CATO-Is-it-CATO-pronounced-KAY-TO-or-CAT-O.html [ Honestly, I thought it meant "C-rashed A-t T-ake O-ff" (i.e. exploded on the pad), or A-fter take off, or something similar, to that same effect. So I did a quick search at DuckDuckGo, where I found the reference linked above, and "Bob's yer Uncle!". No need to thank me, just throw gold! ]
It is a collection of mishaps recorded from different meets. It is generally not anywhere near that bad. Most launches are successful. However what can go wrong will go wrong eventually.. You may end up with a bad day.
@@robinwells8879 You don't even have to participate to attend....although it is much more fun to participate.. I am now 60 and have taken my grandnephews and grandniece to meets...ten years ago. I had them build rockets and participate. It is a shame that they have to grow up. It is inexpensive entertainment. You can even download rockets online, print them out, roll them, assemble them, and then fly them. You do not need to buy kits although I suggest that for beginners... The engines are what are expensive and they are not that expensive.. The kids will take their kids if I am not around and they will remember and have them participate.
@@24kGoldenRocket Good, stuff, life long enjoyment for sure. My parents got me into model rocketry to save my life, from being a "basement bomber" (home made dangerous stuff). Had a few friends in high school, in 60's, with missing eyes and fingers, casualties of the practice. Of course the whole space race was occurring at the same time, like it is starting up again, finally! All that environment got me into a career in science (not rocket) so a good time and education too can be had in this hobby! Gets kids to "look skyward" for a few hours too, for a change, and takes them from having their faces in their Iphones, every waking hour! BTW, I have a friend with a 3D printer, she printed a Saturn V kit for me, plastic parts, I think 1/100 scale; have not built it but will, just need the larger body tubing, and set aside some time. I have built a couple of them from scratch, and flown them successfully (you don't want to crash a Sat V). Always a crowd pleaser for those who know what it is. Sadly many kids today have no clue what a Saturn V is!! So when you ever launch one, please give a short history of the significance!
@@ronschlorff7089 I have an Estes Saturn V that I since have retired. The Saturn V that I fly now is made from card stock, printed on a 2-D printer. Ton Noteboom created the model and I have modified it for flight. You can download it at jleslie48. Enjoy the hobby.
that last one was not a shred. it was a RUD. and they never saw the yellow part come down because it came down as confetti. Ouch. pity it was a nice looking rocket!
This was good. Makes me for sure want to be a little more conscientious. But even so, I have found that no matter how hard I try, and meticulous I am, rockets sometimes seem to have a mind of their own, and stuff just happens.
9:36 "Nimble Phthisic" 10:07 "Fuming Carcass" 18:54 "Oblivious Pat" ...and his incoming sound 21:21 "Farty the Starfish" 23:25 - when on the 3rd day of sh*ts you're out of stamina, and yet extremely pissed off...
I bought a kit in the 70's that had a wing that went up vertical and when the chute charge when off the wing was released and went into position. It had a good launch, the wing deployed and it started spiraling down nice and slow, but the wind caught it and it landed in the middle of the nearby river.
Everytime I see one of those Saturn rockets I am reminded of a rocket day at our school when one launched. It was a 3 stage. The moment before it fired, it fell over. That thing chased people all over the place in all 3 stages. It never left the ground. That was one really exciting final for the day.
Lmbo!!!!
An actual one or a model?
@@hamburgerhamburger4064 a real rocket, they launched a fucking Saturn v at a school
@@layzee3810 well yes, a big model one. They can’t launch a real one, 1/1. If they did that, they’d need sound suppression systems. If it was 1/1 and exploded, expect a mini nuke.
@@hamburgerhamburger4064 Yes I was joking. But yeah I’d expect a pretty big explosion as well
My model rocket failure story, just because I am bored and feel like sharing...
This is way back in the late 80s when I was in junior high. My 7th grade science teacher got myself and a couple of buddies into model rocketry and we spent a big part of the following summer vacation building / launching model rockets. Eventually we got bored of the Estes kits and decided all three of us would scratch build something from toilet paper tubes or whatever we could find. My rocket and the rocket of my other buddy ended up being somewhat ugly and amateur, but they launched and were successfully recovered. However, our other buddy, who was the crafty / handy one of the bunch, took it to the next level.
He built a pretty damn accurate representation of an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile... complete with accurate paint job. It was a thing of beauty, especially considering it was built by a 12 year old from scratch. Well, turns out that the front fins on the actual guided missile don't really translate to good stability on a ground launched ballistic missile. His Sidewinder came off the pad into a perfect arc over our heads and proceeded to streak outside of the vacant lot that we used as our launch range. To add insult to injury, the nose cone was too tight of a fit and the chute failed to deploy, indeed the nose cone didn't even separate... it was a lawn dart... heading out of the range and towards the backyards of the homes bordering the vacant lot.
At this point, landing as a lawn dart was the best case scenario... but that was not to be... instead a direct splashdown into some poor guy's swimming pool. Needless to say, almost anything glued onto the body separated on impact with the water... and black engine soot and wadding and balsa fins were floating and polluting the pool by the time we got there. Being punk 12-year olds that didn't want to get in trouble, we threw our shit in our backpacks and rode our bikes home... never again to use that vacant lot as a launch range... for fear of getting murdered by that poor bastard that had to clean up our mess.
I remember in 5th grade we had a model rocket club and the teacher who ran the club made a really nice Saturn V rocket. He spent a ton of time getting it right. On its maiden flight, the thing went up about 50' and pile drove itself into the pavement. Ah, memories..
Did a few of the Estes rockets as a kid, now I'm going to get some and teach my grand kids about them - along with my DJI P3. Great fun for all ages. Thanks for posting
loved the quip at the end when the rocket flew into a dozen pieces... someone said "wow, it re-kitted"
In the early 1970s I was serving in the Army at White Sands Missile Range. Just in passing I mentioned to some friends there that I had built and launched some Estes rockets. They were more or less disbelieving so I ordered a few kits and eventually launched them. The only failure was the Gemini Titan model. It was a double engine single stage rocket. A few flights went well but on the final one only one of the two engines ignited. It went up about a hundred feet then did what this video called "lawn darts." We were just picking up the pieces when a jeep drove to our launch site and quite firmly, if somewhat ironically, told us that (unauthorized) missile launching was severely frowned upon at WSMR!
Oopsie daisy! 😂
00:09 Close calls
04:08 Uncooperative parachutes
17:28 Lawn darts
21:18 Stability overrated
25:10 And sometimes, it's not your day
Thank you, I've been meaning to do that. I will be sure to add indexes in the second video.
@@AverageJoe8686 Yeah that does happen sometimes, the wrong pad is selected and when the button is pushed we get a surprise. That happened to me at FITS last year on my big Solar Warrior flying a J sparky motor. Fortunately I was able to get the rocket on camera as it left the pad.
@@flyfalcons bruh
@@flyfalconskp
Used to do that 40years ago when i was a teen . Thanks for kicking up some fun memories
In 1973 we built a huge 7-foot rocket out of a 3 1/2 dia. sturdy cardboard tube - with four metal wings, double 18 inch parachutes - and the rocket was painted dayglo orange for tracking purposes. This rocket used four big rocket motors that cost about $20 each - or $80 bucks to fire it up each time.
With the special launcher set -up - the ignition systems - batteries - parachutes - tools - material - onboard mini camera - timer with the charge to blow the nose - paint - rocket motors - the whole show cost us around $500 back then. A LOT OF MONEY! We loved model rocketry and this was by far our biggest grandest one - we were excited to see what it would do.
This rocket was carefully built with precision. The multiple motor holder was handcrafted out of magnesium and aluminum and a heat shield was incorporated to keep the rocket from catching fire once ignited and in flight. The internal altimeter timer was used to ignite the small charge to blow the custom spun aluminum nose cone with the parachute pack attached to it.
One the day of the launch event - the weather mostly calm with partly overcast skies with a high ceiling of moving clouds. We had family over for a Sunday dinner and the launch was to be the entertainment. The launch site was a massive open field behind a church near us. While the set up was being done and brilliant orange rocket on the launcher looked glorious - someone called the cops and reported we were going to set off a bomb! Two police cars showed up - saw the rocket and then radioed it was a model rocket and not a bomb - but they decided to stick around and watch.
Finally, all was ready and everyone was giddy with excitement.
The countdown commenced, the ignition buttons pushed, the motors ignited with a slow hiss with smoke - followed by four massive flames under the rocker, then a second of slow lift - then with a mighty roar - the rocket blasted away and up - up - Up - UP - UP and clean out of sight punching through the clouds and into oblivion never to be to seen or found again. GONE!
The rocket had reward information written on it with our phone number - no one called.
Where the rocket ultimately ended up we had no clue. We searched multiple times for it - and came up empty. Nothing - not even a piece or part was found. We lost a valuable rocket that day - and decided we would give up that hobby. We sold all the equipment to a man who wanted to get into rocketry with his son - ALL WE SAID WAS - GOOD LUCK!
We got into KITES for a few years after that and surf wind sailing.
In high school bio we had mice and were supposed to do something with them - train them etc... or get them to do something. (run a maze etc) I decided I would launch mine in a rocket. One of my friends copied me. However I chose a rocket that took 3 basic series estes engines (and I used three A8-3's) so I could control the initial thrust (lessen it) and he chose one that took a single D. (IMHO WAY too much initial thrust)
I then spent the next month training my mouse. He liked to run in his wheel, and while doing it I would suddenly spin it much faster to get him accustomed to a rapid G increase. Over the month I did this more and more, and faster and faster. It got to the point I could REALLY spin it and he wouldn't miss a beat. My friend did nothing with his mouse.
The day came and our class went out and we fired off the rocket. As it turned out (possibly for the best) only 2 of the 3 rockets fired, but it did not alter it's flight path, just altitude and speed. The chute deployed properly, the entire class ran to the rocket and people got there before me, grabbed it, opened the capsule (I had him wrapped somewhat in soft foam) and dumped the contents into someones hand.... out he popped, all 4's spread with a look of "what the hell just happened" but he was fine.
My friend could not launch his that day and he came back another day when I was not present. His mouse did not survive. I got the A.
Afterwards I took mine home, along with another friends mouse (he didn't want it) which happened to be a female. My astro mouse had a nice mouse life, making babies with his new wife and lived about 4 years, running in his wheel, which I suppose is long for a mouse.
I thought this story was going to have a punchline ending.
🎶🎵 Muskrat love 🎵🎶
Great story telling. The only bigger mouse story I've ever read was about a mouse named Mickey. But, he never got wrapped in foam, and shot up in a rocket. Glad your mouse survived.
You couldn't do that in school nowadays. All the hyper offended liberal snowflakes in class would throw a fit until the teacher was fired.
@@psygn0sis true. Damn pussies!
You are the source of good memories. I launched my first one over 60 years ago. I still get a kick out of it.
How old are u now sir
I remember when I launched my first model rocket. It was on my aunt's acreage, would have been 14 at the time. My uncle had bought two rocket kits for my brother and I at the time on Christmas morning. Brother got an Estes speed freak, I had the Estes spaceship one, and even my uncle hopped on board with his own rocket being the Riptide. Getting everything set was all in the excitement, my brother went first and his launch was definitely faster than mine and the riptide, but because the spaceship one was heavier, I ran a c65 motor which was slightly overpowered. Both his and my uncle's launches were clean. When I launched mine, it went into a spiral and nosedived into five feet of snow. Good memories
The Model Rocketeer's lament: "Shoot,.... no chute"!!! LOL.
basically this whole vid: "Houston we've had a problem."
Fun! I enjoyed Estes model rockets at age 15 in 1959, never dreaming that in 1987 I'd become the manager of manufacturing R&D for LTV/Vought Missiles Division :-) The Scout rockets were built in the facility that I worked in.
Do you happen to know Homer Hickam?
That really brought back some great memories of my childhood in the 60s.
You and me both, brother!
I've experienced them all at one time or another.
Each one was a learning experience.
When you "Graduate" from kit builds to scratch built, the "lessons" ratchet up to a whole new level!
This just reminded me of how sad it is when your model rocket gets destroyed! Haha I used to love doing this so much, but quit for a few years after a model I worked on for a few months didn't deploy its parachute, and broke into numerous pieces! Great video man!
tankmaster1018 It can be tough for sure. Check out my June Swoosh 2018 video - that's my Sea Wolf that suffered the motor CATO and subsequent ballistic impact. Sad to see, but, onto the next project.
Yea I built a 6 foot rocket everything was fine but the chute was too late plz check it out on my channel
I tried the F-14 Tomcat twice to get it to swing the wings out and glide back home. First one was a bust, and the second one did a Split S into the ground at full burn.
I feel ya... i remember building this 6 motor rocket in shop class all year then on launch day... it flew right into a tree.....
In the late eighties I had an Estes Space Shuttle with Stack (#1284) I spent 20 hours on that build.
I also had a (and I still have the same rocket to this day) Saturn V.
So I decided to launch. The first up was the Saturn V. I never saw such a spectacular ascent. It was good...great...uh oh...too good. It flew to 200 feet instead of he 100 feet altitude that was expected. Then it turned over and lawn darted. The recovery charge had burned as propellant.and there was no delay. (Houston...We have a problem.)
So I followed that launch with my Space Shuttle. I used a deep core C5-3 which is suggested as the C6-3 does not deliver enough initial impulse..
Well that one DETONATED on the pad. It was not salvageable at all. Bad day. So I collected the engines and wrote to Estes mailing the faulty engines. They replaced BOTH MODELS free of charge AND provided me with three packs of brand new D12-3s and C6-3s.
I never built the new Saturn V. I still have the unbuilt kit. I just repaired the old one and fabbed an escape tower.
But I did build the Space Shuttle Kit. I still have that one although I have long since retired it, and, in the poor condition that it is in, it will never fly again.
In the years that followed I joined a club and began flying some. The Space Shuttle Kit has long been discontinued so I fabbed one out of paper to use a D12-3 rather than a C6-3.
I have a video of that one flying on my channel.
I am not married to any of these THINGS. If disaster happens, as it invariably will, then I will just have to build another, a better one, which just serves to increase my modeling skills.
If you do not enjoy building models then I can understand not wanting to build them. I agree that it is a lot of work.
But where is the thrill in the finished product after the build is over? The challenge of the build is a thrill. But afterwards, if the thrill is not in flight then is the thrill in the possession? What purpose does that serve? Even Elon Musk does not build Falcon Rockets as monuments. (Great launch tonight. Dragon Crew Demo is in orbit.)
So I do not understand that.
Personally I like others to enjoy watching my birds in flight so as to entertain them. I need to video document more flights so that others may also enjoy them.
Perhaps I will start doing this again in the near future.
Just like road trips, rocket launch days are so much more fun and memorable when things don't go as planned. Nobody ever had an interesting story about a time when everything went right.
L TR you should watch my videos then...
...I've has some epic failures. the two best were:
Putting a C65 engine in Centuri X24 bug. The model basically ascended in a ball of flame.
The other was an attempt at launching a design that I based on the Chesley Bonstell Mars rocket which had the lander/glider on top of the main rocket. That one chased the range crew down the field when it turned horizontal at about 10' altitude. After some retrofitting which included placing two small stabilisation motors at a 30° angle about 3/4 way up the main tube it actually launched properly.
There was another instance where I launched a 3 stage Farside with C6 engines in all stages. The trackers lost the top stage in the clouds. we managed to recover the first two stages (#2 was at the edge of the bluff on the lakefront) , but due to a strong prevailing west wind up high and the fact I used an 18" parachute, the third stage was not recovered...well, until about a month later when I received a package for western Michigan.
My greatest disasters.... this was back in the 70s.
Mercury Redstone. Spent weeks working on the capsule and escape tower. The rocket left the the launch pad, immediately turned sideways and flew into the side of a building.
Klingon Warship.... spent weeks and weeks on this baby. Doped the fins to make it beautiful. Meticulously painted and decalled.
First launch... beautiful take off. Amazing flight... but the parachute never deployed. It is coming down nose first! I run after it. As if in slow motion my hand reaches out and miraculously catches it before it hits the ground and is obliterated. Just at that moment... the parachute deploys... the bottom half shoots out... the shock cord expands just enough to put the wings right under my running feet. Crush!! Kill! Destroy!
I trampled a month's worth of work in an instant. My friends laughed and laughed. I miss those days.
watching these vids got me to watch one of my fav movies....October Sky.....the true story of Homer Hickum....from amature rocket builder to his current job at NASA.
Elmo Drone Me Not so current - he retired in 1998, the same year the book was published.
the whole lawn dart thing hits real close to me. Last summer, I built this rocket glider based off some plans I found on the internet. Ironically I called it lawn dart, and on it's first flight it did just that
I remember in space science class in high school. We all got to build model rockets. Since another friend of mine and I both had previous experience, we had our own little "space race."
Naturally my friend and his partner, and me and my partner (mostly me) built far more powerful rockets than the rest of the class. Well the day before launch, I gave my partner 1 job: glue the guide straw onto the rocket. She failed. Come launch day, I had nothing to attach the straw except plastic cement. It failed miserably. My rocket went out of control and almost hit a bunch of classmates. Needless to say my friend kicked my ass in the space race. lol
The saddest one i witnessed was in about 1989, in an elective high school rocketry class... My friend built the large Estes 1380 Phoenix model; he put so much work into it and it turned out beautiful... But on class launch day, when it was time for it to make its maiden flight, it suffered a catastrophic engine failure when the presumably defective Estes D engine exploded instead of properly igniting. I think it only made it partway up the launch rail when the motor blew up, completely shredding half of the lower section of the rocket (it blew the whole side out).
4 cool stories. the first on back in 1977 i launch a rocket with I think a D cell ( so long ago I'm not sure) into the wind at my local elementary school huge grass field. I bent the launch rod into the wind and set the rocket off to its fate. It got so high you could barely see it till the chute deployed. The wind pushed it back and I only had to walk maybe 20-30 feet from the launch site to catch it before it hit the ground. There was a small group of people (20 -25) around me to watch and my Dad said, " you really impressed a lot of parents" ! As happy as the launch made me. His comment was even better. Another story was as I was getting ready to launch at the same school, a city Police car drove up and asked what was going on. I said I was launching a model rocket. he was ok with it and as he drove away, I sent that missile up. He quickly made a U-turn and came back, then got out and I had to show him the rocket and explain it was bought at the local hobby shop (and which one).It seemed way beyond what he thought public stuff can do. One time I put 2 D cell rocket engines ( the most powerful offered to the public in the hobby shop) in my model of the SR-71 I built, 1 in each side. I lit it and about 30 feet of the launch it started to loop and pin wheel, The flame had melted one side almost shut. I have a picture somewhere I think of my best friend, my Dad and myself. You can see the track from the smoke trails in loops near us. Another time I fused/modified 2 D cells ( to make one big long one) and put them in my X15 model and went to the cliffs at Manresa Beach south of Aptos, Santa Cruz. I launched that puppy with the guide rod bent to just above the horizon and it was last sighted screaming out over the water at 100 feet horizontally out of sight. :-)
I had the Estes SR71 as a kid. It was the best rocket I ever built. Probably flew that thing successfully 20+ times before it "lawn darted." Even then, the plastic nose was bent up, but the craft was in perfect condition. That model was a tank. Never flew it again, but still kept in my "collection" until I moved out and it got lost/trashed in the following years. Good times!
@@HNXMedia They are "good times" indeed. Now 50 plus years later it still brings a smile thinking about what I accomplished with something "near illegal". I've done more with those engines.
far better success rate than i remember from my yearly spring elementary school model rocket extravaganza. I recall a few going sideways but often parachute deployment failure. i had a two stage that went off perfectly! it had a clear tube for test subjects that i installed a yellow jacket wasp into. She was a bit dizzy but survived the ordeal. I remember a classmate successfully launched a three stage rocket. We only found the first stage, that thing could have taken down a weather balloon!
I JUST Picked up a Vintage Estes X-15 Ready to launch kit from $40.00. I plan on taking my Grand Kids to a park or open field and launching it this summer! I had one when I was in my teens and it was my all time FAV Rocket to fly! :D
I just love that oscillating sound of a motor after take off.. It's like a good fireworks report..just.. so satisfying
9:40 "it's going to france" lol
oh my god it looks like a v-2 and that kid knows his shit xD
@@brdplaysgames2231 I don't know if he say that in reference of the V2 cause France got attacked by 76 v2 (succefuly and disfonction lunch include), and even belgium got attacked 1 610 times only in in the town of Anvers, london got attacked 1358time by v2 so idk why he say that lmao ;)
@@scrp7614 No, he's just amerocentrict and doesn't know where France is. ;)
@@g00gleminus96 He knows where France is; that's where American soldiers went to save them in WWII at Normandy, on D-Day!
Building Estes rockets 50 years ago, nothing was pre-fabricated. You got a kit with instructions and pieces of balsa wood and heavy cardboard, you had to build it all yourself. Getting the fins mounted correctly and at the precise angle was a challenge, and you had to coat the seams onto the body of the rocket to make a fillet with about 3 coats of Elmer's glue to make a strong bond. Painting the entire rocket was essential for cutting down air friction. You got the parachute of course, and a patch of fiberglass insulation to protect it. What my brothers seemed to forget is that you have to use profuse amounts of talcum powder on every surface of the parachute to make certain it opens. Back then, if you were high-tech (and had the money) you could get a cam-roc through the mail that took a snapshot of the descent. When the cine-roc came out, which took 8 mm footage, it was about $200.00. Only the rich kid's Dads bought those. When the Estes Apollo rocket came out, it stood over 3' tall and took 5 "D" engines. You could hear it take off about a mile away! Only the rich kid's Dads bought those, too. But we ALL got a rush watching it!!
I have 2 incredible stories I'd like to share. 1) I was flying with the CRASH club out of Denver, they organised a "landing" event, bring a rocket lauch it, the one who lands the closest to the launch pad wins... Everyone had his special trick, we talked about it for a week, the day of the event we were about 30 trying for glory, the 8 rod pad was loaded, first to go, a dad and his son on pad one. 3...2...1...launch ! The ship goes up arcs into the wind, deploys his Estes chute and floats back... to hang on the rod it just took of from... Imposible to best that ! We all shot anyway and nobody got within 20 ft of the pad... 2) Same rules but for duration, bring anything you want, the longest flight wins, but the judges have to be able to see the ship land... It was cold, and there was snow on the ground. The night before I hurriedly put thogether an Alpha III with a chute made from a trashbag, 2 times bigger than the original. Next day I was there just to participate, I could not win against all those "specials" the experts had build. My trun comes, up he goes into the wind, deploys... nice black round chute... is comming in... then, about 100 ft up it stops descending, it passes in front of us and continues down wind climbig ! It climbs 10-15 ft then descends then repeats... 3 of us took off after on foot, after crossing to wire fences we lost sight, It never landed ! I never found it ! Later on an engineer explained : "You got so lucky, the wind, temperature and chute size were right... the sun heated the air under the black chute and created lift, it was enought to lose your ship..." well I lost anyway...
The first rule of rocketry is always assume it will explode.
Not sure how I got here but ended up watching this whole video. Not sure why.
In 1972 I built an Estes X-Ray with the clear tube payload. Launched it in the field of my high school about a half mile from my home. It went up, and the payload separated from the body tube and the shock cord. The body landed in the field, the payload floated off to who knows where. When I got home, the payload tube and parachute were tangled in the telephone pole power lines behind our house! I left it there until it disappeared of natural causes.
The one true thing I have learned from watching this video is this; what goes up must come back down!
You know your an experienced rocketeer when you been through all of these plus some. My homemade untested on lifted off, did a 90 degree then u turn right at me. Lol. No cell phones in those days.
Always fun. Thanks for sharing
The stability part was my favorite! I laughed so hard!
I used to be so scared of them as the ones we had were a bit loud (at least to a 3 year old lol). I'd hide just inside the front door and watch them, then run outside and run through the field with my dad and brother to retrieve them. It's kind of ironic. I used to be afraid of little model rockets. Now I watch real rockets launch very often and I have the most giddy, excited love for that sound. You feel it throughout your whole body. It's so powerful and yet I love it. I had a moment recently where my dad came to see a rocket launch with me. I had this sudden flashback of being on our farm setting them off with him and watching them launch. Here we were, watching a real rocket launch together, standing just as we did when I was a kid and teenager watching model rockets. Now if only the rocket he made me out of boxes to play in made from boxes and old controllers, remotes, and his old 2 way marine radio could mirror real life 😂 I'd do anything to be inside one of those real rockets!
Back in 1964, I was building model rockets from kits by Estes, but couldn't get engines. The state fire marshal in California had decreed that all model rocket engines were fireworks and were forbidden. While stationed at Kodiak AK with the Navy, I built a good model V-2 with original Von Braun patterned black-and-white paint, AND was able to get engines. I launched it from the top of Old Woman Mountain; it went up 1500 feet, popped the chute, and sailed out to sea,.... I never saw it again. Other rockets were launched with no chute and they would go far up-wind, and then tumble down and land right at the launch-area.
My brother and I used to do this back in our teens. He bought one from Estes called the Screamer. At .22 oz, It was the lightest rocket they had. But he wanted it to go as high as possible, so he left out the streamer and glued the nose cone. He sanded down the leading and trailing edges of the fins, hollowed out the nose cone, did everything possible to make it as light as possible, got it down to something like .15 oz. Then came launch day. He jammed the biggest motor that would fit into it, let it rip, and we never saw it again. We figure it made it into orbit.
I did model rockets as a kid, and I learned an important lesson in regards to parachute packing. Always pack your chute right before you launch! If you pack it the night before, it deploys slower if not at all!! And if you have some; a little baby powder never hurts!!
Do not forget the fireproof wadding or your chute gets melted.
You are correct, they should be unpacked before launch, dusted in baby powder and then packed for launch. They should also be attached with a fishermans swivel. This will stop them from spooling and binding on themselves.
A small hole in the top helps them parachute down better as well, and toilet paper can be sued instead of recovery wadding in a pinch.
@@baltsosser NO. YOU CANNOT USE UNTREATED TOILET TISSUE AS WADDING EVER, DO YOU WANT TO START A WILDFIRE? Those embers float for miles at times. *Toilet Tissue is FLAMMABLE.*
If you want to save money on "Wadding" buy a bale of treated Paper Attic Insulation (We call that "Dog Barf")
Flame Retardant Crepe Paper also works.
Or you can MAKE YOUR OWN WADDING by using a roll of Toilet Tissue WHICH MUST BE TREATED SO THAT IT IS FLAME RETARDANT..
Make a saturated Baking Soda/Water solution by boiling water, adding Baking Sosa, until it will not take anymore, Then place the roll of Toilet Tissue into the hot solution to soak up as much of the solution as possible. Then allow the solution and Toilet Tissue to cool. Then take the TREATED Toilet Tissue out of the solution and dry it thoroughly. Do not trap the moisture otherwise it will mildew. Hang the roll through the roll core when drying.. It is Flame Retardant at that point.
And that is how the commercially available wadding is made.
But buying a bale of "Dog Barf" that commercially available Attic Insulation,at your local Hardware store is the best bang for your buck and the least hassle.
I do not need any wildfires set by ignorant people so that it gives the authorities an excuse to ban this sport.
@Greg Moonen Baby Powder is talcum powder sans perfume. I am concerned about fire. Parachutes can catch fire. Anything that decreases the chances of fire is best in my opinion. But I am in SoCal where wildfires are a problem...much worse than Earthquakes.
Uncooperative Parachuts: 4:10
Lawn Darts 17:32
bad days 25:14
B H
Thank you!
Bruh, it's super annoying (has happened to me) when everything goes perfectly, but then the chute gets tangled and the rocket breaks :(
I remember My rockets going a lot higher when i was a kid.
Need permission these days to fly above a certain height, probably didn't have planes when you was a kid :)
@@electronJarvs Had one that'd do just over 1000ft
@@craighatzi6559 The Estes Comanche III will fly to 2500 feet..
The flight ceiling at Fiesta Island in San Diego, California is 1500 feet due to the proximity of the launch site to San Diego International Airport. The club needs FAA clearance in order to fly and can only fly during the specified launch windows, during a club sanctioned meet....period. That, however, is *the EXCEPTION,* and not the rule. It is also against the law to fly rockets at any other site in San Diego County.
Yet in Phoenix, AZ you can fly at any City Park at any time. *There are NO FAA altitude restrictions when flying Class 1 Model Rockets.* That does not mean that gives you license to fly them dangerously.
On the other hand there ARE *propellant weight restrictions* that serve to restrict possible altitudes. But I can easily fly rockets to 2500 feet within those guidelines. And modifying a Estes Comanche III to fly on 3 D12s I can probably fly one to 4000 feet as I have 1.5 times the impulse. If you choose to try the feat then you will need to add some weight to the nose to ensure stability as the Rocket's Center of Gravity must be one caliber's (one rocket diameter) distance ahead of the Center of Pressure. It is unwise to have an unstable flight with that much impulse. iOW...Kids...If you do not know what you are doing then DO NOT.
(But as for retrieving the rocket on the other hand??? The parks are not that big and there are those damned rocket eating trees and surrounding neighborhoods to contend with. And I am not into setting someone's roof to their house ablaze. So I'd launch in the river bottom outside of the city...in...let's say...November when it cools off? But then I'd have to deal with the stupid Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputies who do not know the law like the Phoenix PD.)
As a scale modeler I am not going after altitude as I am far more interested in actually seeing the rocket in flight. If and when I get into High Power Rocketry then that will change.
@@24kGoldenRocket Geez, back in the 60s / early 70s we just took them to the local football field and fired away. So many rules and restrictions now....
@ Same here, we used to walk to the local school yard. These days having a model rocket means you might be a terrorist so we need to outlaw that sort of thing.
But then, we used to live in a free country.
This reminds me of two misadventures in my youth. My next door neighbor launched an Estes Big Bertha. For those who don't know, it uses a three engine cluster. At launch apparently only one engine lit so the rocket cleared the launch rod and took a hard left turn right for the neighbor's house. Fortunately, no fire or property damage.
The other occasion was when I flew an Estes X-Ray. The X-Ray has a clear payload section about the size of a roll of quarters. I put a small field mouse in the payload. Launch was beautiful, that is until the engine burn ended and the chute never popped. Needless to say, we didn't even try to recover that one
A mouse murderer lol
One of the best hobby I had as a kid.
In high school a group of us had a rocket club. Build rockets then launch them in a empty park (empty of the parking lot, softball fields, and gym build years later). Saturn V model was majestic as it slowly rose on its pillar of fire. The multistage rockets often went out of sight, 2nd or 3rd stage never to be seen again. Of course our one genius, calculated his way to building a wingless model, which went "Foxtrot Charlie" the instant it left the rail, and had us kissing the ground. The fuse falling out at ignition and "fire on the pad". Good Times.
How many G's would our intrepid Col. Hamsternaut feel anyway? Would he be aware of the fact that he's airborne? Then a momentary pause in acceleration, then a "Pop!" as the chute deploys.. If all goes well, he has a soft landing. There was a girl lived down the street from me in the mid 70s, I don't remember her name. She was hamster crazy. She launched a hamster in a rocket. I don't remember whether it lived or not. And yes, we actually played with lawn darts, real ones, like a steel spike with plastic fins. Throw them at people you don't like! Amuse your friends!
At least no 'land sharks' where it pops off the end of the guide, hits the ground and then streaks around like a Roman Candle.
those touchdowns with the late chute deployments are pretty kerbal^^
I have a feeling that the model rocketeers of the world would say that "KSP is pretty Estes." They've been doing it a lot longer, after all.
Source: 35 years ago I accidentally put a model rocket through the rear windshield of a (parked) city policeman's car. Thus endeth the promising career of a budding young Von Braun.
19:12 good ol gravity turn I recognize this one
Awesome, I'd so love to see an event like this in person some day!
Enjoyable. thank for posting!
that one shot that leveled off reminded me of my days of building them, my buddy and I both built the same two stage rockets, and the first launch of each had a problem, one destroyed the first stage, while the other leveled off before the second stage ignited, the first stage was all we had left of it, as the second stage did an "exit stage left" at a very high rate of speed, and a nearly flat trajectory, and we never found it.
I was at a launch competition that had to change its criteria cause all the altimeters were either lost or destroyed half way through the competition.
I happened across this and it brings back memories. Way back in the cave-man days of the 1960s, I was in a private high school, Tome School, in Port Deposit, MD. This kid in my 9th grade class, Johnny Bouchelle, got us into model rockets. We would launch our creations, always Estes rockets, in the huge ball field. I assume that, after all these years, the rockets, launchers and the solid-fuel engines have become much more sophisticated than the cardboard-tube, balsa-winged models that I struggled to assemble. Do you remember the Estes Big Bertha? I had one of those. Thanks for a fun video
Ah yes, the big bertha. I used to put a few of those small parachute men (the really small ones) into the rocket with the 'chute. when it would pop a bunch of little parachute guys would come raining down. the kids loved it.
Best advice from someone who's been launching them since 1984. Always pat down your parachute with some talcum/baby powder before packing it. Always worked for me.
Take it from a guy doing it since '68, I concur! Lol.
2:00 quite literally the most efficient flight I've ever seen lmao
50 years ago my brother taught me the best trick for deployment. A dusting of baby powder on the plastic chute and where the nose cone slides into the body. One time was all it took.
Love the famous - almost - last words.... "oh oh"... Ive said them a ton, and ive still got 8 fingers, two thumbs and all my toes... yeah, im boasting... 'cause i know ive said those words A LOT!
Here's my idea of an interesting model rocket: One that launches carrying a lunar module on top. Once the rocket reaches the apex of its flight, engine shuts off, the lunar module is released and the rocket parachutes back to earth. Meanwhile, the descent engine of the lunar module fires and operates until it touches down at Tranquility Base. Has any model rocket builder attempted such a thing?
23:30 was the best in the video 😂😂😂
18:55 was also good
Back in the day, I had a two stage Estes-powered rocket. The first stage ignited a wax-covered fireworks fuse going into the second stage. This fuse created a delay so the upper stage was aiming downward, as planned, when the rocket ignited. It crashed into a nearby corn field at warp speed. Since it was well after growing season, the field was covered in dry husks which caught on fire requiring a call to the fire department. The Apollo Program was never faced with a burning corn field.
I did about the same thing using a mercury switch and the battery out of a Polaroid film pack.
Admittedly we were going for an actual second stage lunch... then we started going for depth.
"Who the hell made you the narrator, cliff?"
My 6yo son launched a rocket he got for Christmas. We had mistaken the higher altitude wind and after chute deployment the wind carried it into a neighborhood of houses. We were not hopeful in finding it, but his Grandmother saved the day when she picked it up in a front yard of a house. All around it were trees, telephone poles and more trees. How it missed all that I will never know.
I had a Summer School Rockery Class !!!Our teacher was the best ever!! Before we even touched rickets air planes..he made sure we under stood the engineering airourdynamics" wind tunnel tested" before allowed on the launch pad ! I built a stunt air plain sting guided...The next summer I built a 3 Stage of the Space Shuttle ..Complete with an airplane attached to the main rocket..3 Stage 1 dc0 Stage 2 do Stage 3 c6 7..witch dislodged the plain witch had aliorones to circle the parachute ing rocket together
While (mostly) entertaining to us viewers, I have experienced the heartache of a Launch "Grenade" as well as a clean launch then 20' of altitude and the center of the sun comes blasting out the side of the engine area, raining molten engine components towards earth. Then the Lawn Darts, and many as seen in this video.
Now if ONLY someone would have a class for videographers to attend to teach them how to keep the camera relatively (!) still. That or insist they refrain from caffeinated beverages while filming. LMAO
Thank you for posting this.
Loving that re-enactment of MR-1.
YES!!!!
Favorite Estes rocket had a clear payload bay and by golly, many a lizards found in the prairie near penrose colo had the flight of their lives
There's a dragstrip in those woods somewhere.
Yep. Bigfoot needs a hobby.
agree
I was expecting the rocket to come back down and smash ....
And 💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I should make a video of my failures. While much shorter than this I probably have a few good ones! Thank you for compiling these!
For high-value models, it pays to use a custom parachute not made of plastic. I find cotton, nylon, and silk fabrics work well and do not suffer from packing fatigue as badly as plastic ones. That said, extra wadding is a good idea with these to prevent any burns. A bit of talcum (about a teaspoon) in the chute makes a nice puff of white to spot the chute by.
Fill the tip with black powder for a boom
I went to high school with a couple of guys who thought like that. One was blind in one eye and the other had only two fingers on one hand! Ha!
Lesson Learned for some! Keep blasting on!😁
I've had nearly every one of those kinds of failures (and several others not found here). I'm not sure if that makes me really experienced or really bad at rocketry.
That looks like a fun day. As a joke, I'd suggest combining it with skeet shooting, for when the chutes don't properly deploy.
19:00
Basically my Kebal Space Program career. Except the chute deploys before launch.
Check yo staging!
21:55 these announcers are great
Amazing seeing some of those motor failures. Launched a ton of Estes rockets as a kid and never had an issue with Estes rocket motors.
I used to skip the parachute and dump a few ounces of gunpowder in there instead.. glue the nosecone on and you've got a missile! With longer delay charges and a little practice, I actually got pretty good at hitting ground targets a few hundred feet away.. good times lol
Looks like a fun day out. None of the rockets appeared to be too expensive, so no great disasters.
I built lot of model rockets when i was kid and i rolled the parachute correctly.
Same here - I never had a parachute fail to deploy.
Same here, lost a couple due to engine kicking out but never a chute failure.
I wonder if they still do those things where you train a mouse to get used to the rapid G force increase, then put it in a rocket, and finally launch the mouse up into near space.
Saw your post on RF and ran this way to watch. Thanks man!
nathan rubio what is RF?
Wow, some of these are still the same rockets Estes was selling when _I_ was a kid, nearly 30 years ago! ...not sure whether that makes me feel younger or _older._ 😑
Unlike with RC scale model airplanes, when one of these augers in, everybody laughs, including the builder.
Scott Paris def not true. For the little estes kit yes, but anything above an I motor is usually an expensive and heartbreaking loss
Definitely not true. These are also much more deadly.
@@carlrygwelski586 ever see an out of control 110" Bf109?
@@crazytrain7114 No I'm agreeing that rockets are dangerous and passionate projects that don't just get laughed at when something goes wrong
Apparently Max-Q applies to model rockets also!! Love these vids.
*YES!* But with solid rocket motors you can't throttle down!
I have lost many a scratch built rocket to Max-Q failures. Always spectacular to watch, thought!
Yes, yes, yes yes.... Damn!
... Welp, scrap that design and move onto the next one. ( Never get too attached to any one rocket design)
Those lawn darts are scary. It's not the crashed rocket you worry about. It's coming in pointed end first and fast. You just hope it misses everybody when it hits. I had one last year, went in about 8" deep. Thank God it missed the spectator area.
Had a lawn dart once, when the ejection charge blew the engine mount out the back instead of the nose cone off the front. :-) Pranged in neighboring garden.
have not had a chute failure since started coating chute with talcom powder
Use Baking Soda instead as it is a Flame Retardant. You will save your chute if you failed to use enough wadding or when the Recovery Charge is too hot..
@ In the 1970s I used to walk down street in SoCal suburbs with loaded guns as I was headed out to do some shooting and target practice. The San Diego Sheriff Deputies would drive on by and wave. I'd not do that today as I'd be shot.
The Cedar Fire in 2006 burned a full 25% of the acreage in San Diego County.
Back in the day I'd fire off rockets at the local schoolyard too. But we have too many idiots now as those who suggest using toilet paper as wadding, or,those who have no clue what "Baby Powder" is.
And the schoolyards are now closed after school due to liability insurance requirements and due to our litigious populace who will sue over the drop of a fucking hat.
Maybe that is why the damned rules and regulations are enacted.
And you attack me as if I am the one who is personally responsible for writing the rules and regulations?
I am not setting the county ablaze. And while I render some financial support as I am forced to pay taxes I do not agree with all of the regulations.. I believe in self regulation. That is what the flying clubs do
I am not one who easily and willingly trades liberty for safety.
But today is NOT "back in the day" when common sense ruled.
It is common fucking sense to NOT expose materials to temperatures that exceed the flash point if you do not intend to ignite them.
While talc will work and coat internal walls of rockets over time, Baking Soda is better as it absorbs heat while it breaks down into a gas...releasing Carbon Dioxide That is simple Chemistry. And when heat is taken away, along with the release of Carbon Dioxide, then the likelihood of ignition is minimized. This is what you are supposed to learn about in your High School Chemistry course.
Common sense is not so common these days. So we get rules and regulations as a result.
Look into the mirror, pal. You are one of the reasons why.
Today there are children who never are even allowed to play outside or ride their bikes down the streets.
There are children in LOCKDOWN in schools, with guards patrolling the hallways.
How are they to learn?
At 9:39 I heard a voice saying "it's going to France" haha. Well it is a v2 replica.
Kid knows it haha
@Arsene Who? it's a joke
"Fourth times the charm," LOL!!!😂
VERY entertaining thank you :)
I used to build and launch model rockets in the early 80's. The Estes engines were quite expensive. Once I had one shroud line come loose so that part of the chute allowed a stream of air to flow out. That made it act like a glider so it traveled way off into a neighboring field. I had plenty of chutes fail to deploy, a few that suffered partial melting, some engines that popped out instead of popping the nose off. Never had any explode, or fail to get off the pad, nor did any shred mid-flight from too much power.
What does CATO’s (in the title) mean?
A motor failure, generally explosive, where all the propellant
is burned in a much shorter time than planned. This can be
a nozzle blow-out (loud, but basically harmless), an end-cap
blow-out (where all of the pyrotechnic force blows FORWARD
which usually does a pretty good job of removing any internal
structure including the recovery system) or a casing rupture
which has unpredictable, but usually devastating, effects.
Another form of CATO is an ejection failure caused by either
the delay train failing to burn or the ejection charge not
firing, but the result is the same: the model prangs.
Opinions on the meaning of the acronym range widely. Some
say it's not an acronym at all, but simply a contraction of
'catastrophic' and should be pronounced 'Cat-o' (which sounds
better than 'cata' over PA systems :-). Others maintain that
it is an acronym but disagree on the meaning, offering a
broad spectrum of 'CAtastrophic Take Off,' 'Catastrophically
Aborted Take Off,' 'Catastrophe At Take Off' and the self
referential 'CATO At Take Off.' The acronym crowd pronounces
it 'Kay-Tow', like the Green Hornet's side kick. It has been
pointed out, though, that all of the above are 'post-hoc'
definitions since LCO's were using the term over range PA
systems long before any formal acronym was established.
source: stason.org/TULARC/recreation/model-rockets/1-7-What-is-a-CATO-Is-it-CATO-pronounced-KAY-TO-or-CAT-O.html
[ Honestly, I thought it meant "C-rashed A-t T-ake O-ff" (i.e. exploded on the pad), or A-fter take off, or something similar, to that same effect. So I did a quick search at DuckDuckGo, where I found the reference linked above, and "Bob's yer Uncle!". No need to thank me, just throw gold! ]
I had similar issues with the Estes Saturn V, yours came out better than mine.
Looks like a lot of family fun and about the same success rate as the early days of the real thing!
It is a collection of mishaps recorded from different meets. It is generally not anywhere near that bad.
Most launches are successful. However what can go wrong will go wrong eventually.. You may end up with a bad day.
24kGoldenRocket I really like the multiple generations on show. Real family enjoyment.
@@robinwells8879 You don't even have to participate to attend....although it is much more fun to participate.. I am now 60 and have taken my grandnephews and grandniece to meets...ten years ago. I had them build rockets and participate. It is a shame that they have to grow up.
It is inexpensive entertainment. You can even download rockets online, print them out, roll them, assemble them, and then fly them. You do not need to buy kits although I suggest that for beginners... The engines are what are expensive and they are not that expensive..
The kids will take their kids if I am not around and they will remember and have them participate.
@@24kGoldenRocket Good, stuff, life long enjoyment for sure. My parents got me into model rocketry to save my life, from being a "basement bomber" (home made dangerous stuff). Had a few friends in high school, in 60's, with missing eyes and fingers, casualties of the practice. Of course the whole space race was occurring at the same time, like it is starting up again, finally! All that environment got me into a career in science (not rocket) so a good time and education too can be had in this hobby! Gets kids to "look skyward" for a few hours too, for a change, and takes them from having their faces in their Iphones, every waking hour!
BTW, I have a friend with a 3D printer, she printed a Saturn V kit for me, plastic parts, I think 1/100 scale; have not built it but will, just need the larger body tubing, and set aside some time. I have built a couple of them from scratch, and flown them successfully (you don't want to crash a Sat V). Always a crowd pleaser for those who know what it is. Sadly many kids today have no clue what a Saturn V is!! So when you ever launch one, please give a short history of the significance!
@@ronschlorff7089 I have an Estes Saturn V that I since have retired. The Saturn V that I fly now is made from card stock, printed on a 2-D printer. Ton Noteboom created the model and I have modified it for flight. You can download it at jleslie48.
Enjoy the hobby.
Some of the announcers sound like disgruntled out of work radio DJ’s.
that last one was not a shred. it was a RUD. and they never saw the yellow part come down because it came down as confetti. Ouch. pity it was a nice looking rocket!
This was good. Makes me for sure want to be a little more conscientious. But even so, I have found that no matter how hard I try, and meticulous I am, rockets sometimes seem to have a mind of their own, and stuff just happens.
9:36 "Nimble Phthisic"
10:07 "Fuming Carcass"
18:54 "Oblivious Pat" ...and his incoming sound
21:21 "Farty the Starfish"
23:25 - when on the 3rd day of sh*ts you're out of stamina, and yet extremely pissed off...
I bought a kit in the 70's that had a wing that went up vertical and when the chute charge when off the wing was released and went into position. It had a good launch, the wing deployed and it started spiraling down nice and slow, but the wind caught it and it landed in the middle of the nearby river.