finally someone builds one of these that does the whole launch sequence... even had the mains start before the SRB's. never seen one do the actual SRB sep and then the tank sep... well done fella's, well done.
And yet after all that they still land it in the grass... wheels up... When one can bring back an RC orbiter, after a launch, put it down on an RC hard surface runway, and on wheels and then deploy a little drag chute, then I'll be impressed.
Hats off to the designer who engineered this!! From start to finish incredibly realistic for this type of model rocketry. Much more than I was expecting.
@@cindysue5474 Yes the Saturn 5 is big, my brother and I built the kit. But this shuttle far outshines the Saturn 5 as far as realism goes, this is VERY similiar in motion and actions to an actual shuttle launch.
I am 60 years of age and have flown many model rockets in my time , but this was by far the best flight I have ever seen , beautiful with the detaching boosters , oh did I mention I've worked on the space shuttle program for 5 years. Very well done ! Congrats !!. Sound would have been a nice added touch !
Hi Joseph! Thanks :-) It is a pleasure to get such comments from someone that worked on the real stuff!! About sound , I use high speed camera to record the video. This unfortunately don't record the sound. But next flight I'll use a second normal camcorder so it will be available.
I don’t get all the complaints about the sound track. This is the most ingenious, original model rocket/ RC I’ve ever seen. From the slow, realistic take off to the separation of the rocket boosters and tank. All the way to the controlled flight and landing. WELL DONE!
I'm blown away by how cool that was. When the solid rocket boosters disengaged, I literally cheered. I've lived in central Florida for most of my life. I've seen the real thing in person. This was extremely well done.
I don't know how long it took you to do this space shuttle RC program, I have to say it was well worth it! I salute your workmanship my friend, well done!
Tell me about it that was very realistic, I loved it. I thought it would go to shoot off like a like the model rockets do. But that thing took off nice and slow reached a certain altitude and even released on...... Don't know what they're called so I'll just call him boosters to get the rocket off the ground. That's pretty much what's used. And then the big booster is to get the shuttle the rest of the way up into orbit.
@@DavidWilliams-mo6dj The white rockets are SRBs, short for Solid Rocket Boosters, while the orange stage is the ET, or external tank. Unlike the SRBs, which get the shuttle up to a certain speed, the ET is literally a massive fuel tank meant to keep the orbiter fueled for the majority of its ascent. Fun fact, it actually feeds the engines a different fuel than what the orbiter actually stores in its internal fuel reserves.
The space shuttles were the greatest spacecraft aerospace engineers ever created. Now somebody created a model with that much attention to detail is a achievement in And of itself. I would really like to see the price of a kit for this. or how much it cost to build it.
I built one of the first Estes rocket kits of the shuttle in 1976...flew flawlessly, separated and glided back down in a circular pattern while the tank vessel parachuted perfectly. My crown achievement as a sixth grader
The kit 1284! It was my 1st Shuttle :-) . Here the video of the "modified" kit I did years ago. Glider is different , but SRB and ET are from the original one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AFKblzuDLNk.html
I had the same kit in 1986 when Challenger blew up I was in 7th grade. That spring we were doing rocketry in science class. I stuck a m80 firecracker in mine and it blew up . I got suspended from school and a good ole ass beating from dad because we spent a lot of money on the kit.. no one thought it was funny also. The principal asked why I put the m80 in it and I replied I wanted it look realistic!
Actually, there's nothing slow about real rockets. They just look slow because of their size. The Saturn V, for instance, hit 125 in 5 seconds, 250 in 10 seconds and 750 in 30 seconds. But you're right that this launch looked more realistic because the scale speed of most hobby rockets is way faster than large-scale rockets.
Man this was a totally awesome model rocketry demonstration flight! I put this right with the Steve Eves Saturn V launch as two of the best look-alike model launches on RU-vid. I gotta get to work, but I need to see this again real quick. Made my day!
Fantastic rocket. The whole aerodynamics was good. The rocket even has stage by stage separation and the it releases the space shuttle into orbit. The space shuttle too had great aerodynamics, it flew nicely for well over 5 minutes and then landed. Amazing.
I was flying Estes rockets in the days of Project Mercury, and my first cluster was based on the newly proposed Titan III missile. Things have changed quite a bit! Beautiful flight, amazing timing.
I buildt rockets myself when I was 14, some of them flew up more than 100 Meters. The (slow!) start of this Space Shuttle is the most demanding challenge - any tiny little disharmony in the Shuttle's rockets, and the whole thing will go anywhere. It is really nice to see it working, in fact the slow beginning is a miracle. Next time you fly you may land a little bit closer, so we can see the Shuttle in larger scale. Thank you for such highlight!
Out freaking standing! Love the SRB separation and the roll. Main tank staying strapped to the shuttle is perfect. All in all this was truly excellent work. I agree with the below comment , the music could have een lived without. Oh well, that's the only bad thing about this video.
Love the music. Just can't get enough. To tell you the fact, I forgot about that damn shuttle, closed my eyes and just flew away myself, listening to it's great soundtrack.
Great launch ! I absolutely loved the slow lift-off ! Very realistic to the actual Cape lift-off, and slow roll, then, srb separation ! Spectacular ! Not to mention, a great flight duration, followed up with a GREAT glide-in landing ! Very realistic ! My hat's off to your accomplishment !
Can we see the video at full speed? I know it had to be slowed down to go up at the same rate the Shuttle blimps rise, but rockets don't do that. They shoot up like... well, like... like rockets.
Wow this was amazing!!! Booster Sep, roll maneuver, gravity turn, everything as close to a real launch as I hoped for and more! Thank you so much for sharing!
That was absolutely brilliant , wrong music but everything else was wonderful to watch. It even rolled like the real thing, and what else can one say but pure magic.
I used to launch model rockets back in late 60’s - early 70’s and have seen a pile of them but when I watched this the first time I thought it was playing in slo-mo. These rockets usually reaching their apex after 10 seconds or so. I wish all of them would be so realistic. Great job! And yes...dump the music.
That was very well done! Those were some pretty long burning rocket you had on that. It looked at first like it wasn't going to take off, then the "main engines" kicked in. And such a great flight time on the shuttle. Bravo.
That's gotta be the best rocket launch video I've seen, usually they go up and either explode or just fall to the ground but this one had everything, well done 👏
My respects gentlemen !! I have been following the history of aeronautics and astronautics for years in studies from the Mercury and Apollo projects, and then the shuttle launches and studies of its complex engineering, I congratulate you for this fantastic job, good pilot and good flight engineer, the model and even the scale of the times of the SRB and ET, superb !! I hope to know more about your work, friends, keep going and better...Maybe late but I like to give my humble congratulations to young people for their efforts.
Holly smokes that was so cool. I loved shooting off those rockets when my kids were small but that was a whole new level right there. That went off perfect.
