This is probably the best amature rocket flight video I've ever seen. The footage of the second stage ignition from the first stage is truly spectacular.
Great job. Minor hiccup with switch, good thing for backups. Good looking rocket for sure. Even your second stage was wiggling a bit. Thanks for sharing.
Why do people keep asking what he used as fuel? It's a solid rocket motor. He shows the name of the motors at the beginning of the video! 4 x L-1400's first stage, L-1800 on main stage.
Great launch, second stage and recovery! The video from booster was cool, and the second stage video was outstanding! Congratulations and thanks for posting
Wow! What a pleasant surprise! I was looking for a video of this rocket but in a much smaller version. Try 44" long, weighing less than one pound. Oh, but this was so much better to watch! Great video, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Nice launch, even if your friend forgot to hit record. Good coverage anyways. Since you had basically N power in the booster, I wonder how this setup would do with a long burning N in the sustainer.
Wow that was really cool man! Way to make model rockets look cool!!! I got some cheap Walmart one as a kid and I remember I was pretty excited about it. I got all the kids from the neighborhood to come watch me launch it. But after I launched it that first time I was very much over the whole thing. Probably because my rocket got stuck in a huge pine tree and it took FOREVER to get it down....way longer than it took for me to assemble and fire it for sure. All the other kids got bored and left me out there to get it down alone. So yea it took forever and I don't think I ever launched it a second time. But this video is exciting! It really shows that your imagination is really the only limit on what you can do with these rockets! The fact that yours has 2 stages is everything! It makes it at least 3x cooler lol when you get to watch it separate and then fire another boost to propel the top half of the rocket even further, man that's everything! I loved it. I won't lie, it kinda made me want to go buy another model rocket hahaha I'm still amazed that the engines they use is unregulated. I had a friend in high school who burned the hell out of his arm messing around with them. He scraped out all the powder and did something with it, and and sparked it up somehow. Which obviously ended very poorly for him - big 3rd degree burn. It can't be gunpowder, but whatever it is, it has a lot of potential energy. Especially if you combine them - which anyone can because they're unregulated. Just a little surprising. I bet whatever it is, it has some special property to make it less reactive/more safe, like it can only be ignited by a very high heat source, like thermite or something. Obv thermite is way more dangerous, but this stuff can be too! Anyway - AWESOME rocket man! You've just sent me on a journey down the RU-vid rabbit hole, chasing down rocket videos!! 😂 Thanks!
These engines are regulated because they are high powered engines. You have to be certified to purchase and use the engines. Also if it flies over a certain height, you will need FAA approval so that they can clear the planes away from that launch area
@jasonpwnd We DON’T need Regulations every time someone mishandles or gets lazy with manufacturers safety precautions. There’s a point in life when people of average intelligence take responsibility for their own actions. It’s usually around age 12. People like you just screw things up for the rest of us.
Very nice! If someone, anyone can answer this, I'd appreciate it. What does a launch like that roughly cost? I'm still cringing at how much an F motor is gonna cost me, but I'm ready to move up from an E. Anyways, I'm just curious. Someday when I grow up I'll have a big toy like this one! Maybe. My problem is I have too many toys! Mostly 1/4 scale r/c planes and I recently bought another experimental as well.
Seeing as he used a total of five L-engines (four in the booster one in the sustainer), if you bought from apogee I’d estimate roughly $1150 in engines alone. I have the same trouble, I haven’t high-power certified because I’d rather buy a case of ammo for competitive shooting- unfortunately that also means I have a rocket sitting in my garage that’s as tall as I am lol
@@tristanwelch424 Hey Tristan, thanks for the info. $1150, eh? It must be pretty cool to watch something you created lift off the ground and go up with such force. It definitely gets people's attention. But at $1150 a pop? I once bought a 6" Colt Python in stainless for a little less money and it goes "BANG!" six times! I know, not the same thing, I know. I'm experimenting with sugar/KNO3 to replace anything bigger than an E motor. It just gets too expensive too fast for me. (I'm such a hypocrit) LOL. I once went to the gun counter at my local Bass Pro Shop and spent $3200 and walked out the door with a smile. (I cried later when no one was around) As the saying goes, "The difference between men and boys are the price of their toys." But I'm not so sure if I agree with that entirely. I gotta ask you... if you shoot competition, why the case of ammo? Don't you use reloads for that, or is it against the rules? A good quality box of ammo off the shelf is pretty consistant, but you can achieve better accuracy by reloading your own, as I'm sure you already know. I'm just curious, that's all. Lastly, what caliber do you shoot in competition? Thanks again for the info. When I saw $1150 I kept looking for the decimal point that you forgot to put . HA! Sugar/KNO3.., that's the poor man's way to go. Good luck at the shooting match!
@@tristanwelch424 Hey Tristan, thanks for the info. $1150, eh? It must be pretty cool to watch something you created lift off the ground and go up with such force. It definitely gets people's attention. But at $1150 a pop? I once bought a 6" Colt Python in stainless for a little less money and it goes "BANG!" six times! Not the same thing, I know. I'm experimenting with sugar/KNO3 to replace anything bigger than an E motor. It just gets too expensive too fast for me. (I'm such a hypocrit) LOL. I once went to the gun counter at my local Bass Pro Shop and spent $3200 and walked out the door with a smile. (I cried later when no one was around) As the saying goes, "The difference between men and boys are the price of their toys." But I'm not so sure if I agree with that entirely. I gotta ask you... if you shoot competition, why the case of ammo? Don't you use reloads for that, or is it against the rules? A good quality box of ammo off the shelf is pretty consistant, but you can achieve better accuracy by reloading your own, as I'm sure you already know. I'm just curious, that's all. Lastly, what caliber do you shoot in competition? Thanks again for the info. When I saw $1150 I kept looking for the decimal point that you forgot to put . HA! Sugar/KNO3.., that's the poor man's fix. Good luck at the shooting match!
@@Cabo_TheManFromCaboWabo Yes Sir! They have such a smooth action right out of the box too, but then you probably know that already. Too big to carry concealed, not comfortably anyways, but a real pleasure to shoot.
