This was recommended on an RC plane vid and I got excited because I thought someone had built and RC sidewinder with a ducted fan to chase rc planes with.
Wow! Great Project, flight and OB vid. I flew a 4" G10 Sidewinder at Higgs' Farm many years ago when the ESL# was much lower LOL. Even with a Lil K1100 it needed 5+ pounds of nose weight.
Nice now to install tracking and targeting abilities, we build smaller rockets for RC plane to shoot that i build video recognition tracking and reaction control systems to hit targets like other rc planes or rc tanks on the field. Currently working on a thermal system as well as a gps/ radar system to do the same. 😊
When I went to "A" school in Millington TN one of the guys in the ordinance school built a scale sidewinder, we flew our rockets at a park East of the base since the base police stopped our flying on base. I guess they launched when a Navy P-3 was on approach and caused a few problems because the cops showed up and we could no longer fly there either. Nice model by the way, it would be hard to tell from an original if it was mounted on a wingtip or rail.
My father worked on the original “ side winder “ missile project in the early ‘60 for the US Navy at Naval Base in Rhode Island - saw lots of neato planes as a kid growing up !
I think you are on about the AIM-9C Sidewinder which was a Semi Active RADAR Homing Version for the F8U Crusaders in the Early 60's. The Original Sidewinder project was from the 1950's with the AIM-9B that saw use in 1958 between Taiwan and China
That looked like fun! A small detail though... The rollerons need to be hinged at the slanted leading edge to actually work as stabilizing rollerons. The pinwheels don't do anything unless the whole rolleron is hinged and free to move. When they're hinged, the rocket will have a different kind of spiral stability as the rollerons cause a noticeable corkscrew motion.
Nice launch! 🎉 It would be very interesting to see real working rollerons from this perspective. There should be hinges infront of rolleron to work. Maybe its gyro would not spin fast enough to work properly.
Big thank you to Dan Michael helping me at the pad, Darren Fonseca for the masking tape and Stephen Childs for helping me locate the rocket. Thank you all.
Great missile, excellent launch, super recovery!! If a fighter jet were to suddenly roar past the missile in flight, you'll bet he'll launch flares and take evasive action!!
That was a beaut! L1040 Dark Matter did he say? Ejection was interesting. I know the main came out early, does that explain why the two body tubes collided just after separation? I wasn't exactly sure where the camera is mounted relative to the drogue side/main side
nice long burn time on that motor. Love it. but a white smoke motor (white lightning?) would have been closer to an authentic Sidewinder launch,just saying. great flight.
im trying to find someone to work for... 21 years old fully certified in every single type of metal welding, cutting and brazing with great experience. ill never be able to afford to get a degree in engineering, i believe that is the only thing holding me back from getting the job of my dreams working in, on or around rockets. what do you guys suggest i do, maybe to just get a foot in the door? Awesome video by the way!
Well the Warsaw pact managed to reverse engineer it, so why not a citizen too? Why did the rocket motor exhaust look so sparkly and festive, is that carbon that's causing that?
This is a commercial motor made by Aerotech motors. It was called Dark Matter. This is one of the formulas they use. They also have white lightning white smoke. Black Jack. Black smoke. Red line red flame. Green. Etc etc.
Nice, but a little under-powered.I remember when one of the engineers bought a mock-up of the sidewinder in his car up to me at my farm in N.J. to show me since he knew I was interested. I still remember some of the specs, 7 seconds of main motor burn and then 7 seconds of sustainer, that's about 7 miles, approx 2,000 mph. approx 50 lb. warhead, either radar or IF. Them were the days. That was before I went into the USAF.
Wiki has AIM-9 warhead weight at 20.8 lbs. 50 lbs is what a AIM-7 Sparrow had. the entire AIM-9 only weighed 188 lbs. and NO radar,only IR seeking. Sparrow was semi-active radar homing. sounds like you have the two confused.
Yeah. Well it did get your attention. Didn’t make it that loud deliberately. Sorry. But pointless I don’t think so. Exciting Sidewinder stuff. Get it. Lol
I got a cat problem, uhhh and well, I was wondering if U will make 1 more so the neighbor cat leaves me alone. With his cute “wake up it’s 4 am” smile from my window.
