Steve eves is my step dad and this journey was amazing. I was 18 when this was all going on but I was still there with him helping anyway I could. Even though I was there I still come back to this video every couple months just rewatch it.
Am I missing something here? I thought someone just sent a model rocket into the sky and watched it come back down. Clever stuff, but hardly an historic achievement.
i love the little high-pitched shriek of the rocket engines, just before the shock wave boom hits the microphone. That's some serious power in those engines.
14 years to hit my algorithm, and My eyes are BUGGING OUT!!! My favorite was always the Saturn V. I grew up with those majestic launches- and that big red U. S. A. Scrolling past the gantry camera. Mr Eaves - Sir, I salute you and that 1/10 scale beast you made !! ❤
Just About Anything yes it did. My recommended videos have been a little weird in the last few weeks. They've definitely changed something. But i have to admit, it's refreshing to see some different walks of life. Cheers mates.
So happy to find my childhood hobby again and then get so many cool videos like this which never had knew possible before. Model rockets are fun, good enjoyable hobby good times.
If only more young people were enabled to spend their spare time on educational, constructive activities like this, ALL of society would benefit. Congratulations to all those involved.
Peter Evans That’s awesome! Has she flight tested it yet? I should have made it clear that my earlier comment was mostly sarcasm. I see a ton of kids these days who are flat earthers and space flight deniers. Makes me SMDH. I didn’t mean to include 𝒂𝒍𝒍 kids. My own are pretty smart, reasonable kids as well.
Everything about that video was awesome. From the launch, landing, music, golf claps and cheers, to the silly voice at the end so full of glee. This is a midwestern masterpiece!
As a rocketeer as a child in the 70s/80s this was awesome and perfect. My biggest rocket was the Estes "Mean Machine" (6'). If I saw this one on the shelf at Toys R Us I woulda bought it for sure.
I don't remember the name of it, but it was a two stage D engine rocket with a movie camera in its nose. I had built a new 1st stage that consisted of a D center and 2 large C engines, making it a 3 stage rocket, that I had intended to launch it with, but I broke a fin in transport and launched it just as the 2 stage. I had never launched a two stage before this one, so when the first stage separated I felt kind of disappointed at first, I thought "That's kind of a gyp, it only got about 50 feet up and separated". I forgot to consider that the first stage just got it up and moving, that 2nd stage was all acceleration! The last I saw of it was a teeny tiny dot way up in the sky. I had launched right around sundown and the parachute came down right in front of the sun. Never did find it or see what it recorded. I still do think about that 1st stage I built, I wonder how that would have looked.
I know this is a long time after this has been filmed but I just found this video that was really awesome and then especially for to land standing upright if I'd been there I would be hoarse for years because of all the screaming of happiness
When that engine ignited it nearly blew my socks off. What a launch! The landing was pretty satisfying too. I see why people put so much time and money into this hobby.
Back in the 70s the boys and I in the neighborhood were really into Cox and Testors control line airplanes and Estes model rockets. This was really far out! JA
As a kid in the 70's I also had Cox working models....a 'Sandblaster' hot rod (model beach buggy 0.5cc) and a model Sopwith Camel bi-plane (0.5cc both running on 'Redglow' fuel) with control lines working the rear elevators. Had a lot of fun with them. Greetings from UK.
In 1992, one kid and his dad, a police officer in our neighborhood, launched a 12" Estes rocket in the cul- de- sac, next to the 150 acre canyon with nothing but dry brush. Within a month 10-12 kids were gathering at the cul de sac launching the rockets with sizes getting larger and larger. Finally one kid bought a 4' rocket. That climbed no more tan 100 feet before it crashed. Most of the rocket went up 300-1000 feet and floated back down. Kids chased them before they could start a fire as the engine cartridge was often still hot. Wal Mart eventually changed the policy and only adults could buy the cartridges. The neighborhood rocket brigade ended soon after.
It weighs 1600lbs, and that is crazy. But the truly crazy fact is, if it were 1/10th the weight of the real one, it would weigh more like 600,000lbs. Doesn't seem possible does it...
