High power videos

[pr_rocket04]

I'm just wondering if you guys could post any links you know to good high power launch videos using an M class engine equivalent or larger.

I know about Gates Brothers, but I remember a while back finding a vid of like an R or a S class rocket launching and I'm hoping there's more videos out there like it.

 

[hokkyokusei]

M powered 1/4 scale V2.
https://www.ukra.org.uk/videos/royv2.mpg
Failed L3 attempt, despite the additional "mission points".

 

[pr_rocket04]

Wow, that was the coolest lawndart ever! Too bad for the rocket though. What size M was it?

 

[hokkyokusei]

Not sure. It was Aerotech. M1939 maybe.

 

[BHP]

Here's a seven (big) motor cluster vid:

https://www.wildmanrocketry.com/

Click on the "Wildman Theater" link bottom left and then the Wildman Project.

IIRC that was an N4000 surrounded by six M2200 Skidmarks. Quite impressive to say the least.

 

[pr_rocket04]

That is just amazing. I could sit on my computer all day if vids like this kept coming!

 

[Chuck Rudy]

Download page

Here ya go, sit awhile......HarBazN3500 is an easy one in EX form, MDRA Cow P is an EX P motor, not a cow peeing, MDRA Jerry OShred is three EX Ms feeding a single M sustainer, LDRS23RobDH8TL23 is an AMW N, NYP-X 3 J mono is three Js on a monocopter, P motor test is....you guessed it.

So there ya go, go nutz.

Chuck

 

[xenon]

https://www.civilianspace.com/video/default.asp

There is a S 55,000 going 77 miles up and into space on that page

 

[BHP]

While not videos take a look at the Brent Hill still photos of the Wildman launch here:

https://tripoliquadcities39.com/page3.html

I should have added this link earlier.

Brent Hill is an excellent rocket photographer and flier. A great asset to have at any launch both for his camera and rocket expertise.

 

[pr_rocket04]

Those are also very nice videos. Some of the ones on the Apple page wont load however, like the N3500 video. I know there are more high power vids out there though, I still haven't seen the one I originally saw with the R or S motor. I think maybe it was a Tomahawk if I can remember right.

Too bad the rocket that went 70+ miles didn't have an onboard cam!

 

[Todd Knight]

The Gates Brothers site has lots and lots of videos.
Gates Brothers Rocketry

 

[xenon]

Originally posted by pr_rocket04

Too bad the rocket that went 70+ miles didn't have an onboard cam!

Actually, It did, although I have never seen it yet

 

[r1dermon]

S motor...pfft. i throw two of those in my upscale flis kits deuces wild...lol

 

[pr_rocket04]

Well who knows where the onboard video can be found??? Must find that video!

 

[xenon]

Originally posted by pr_rocket04
Well who knows where the onboard video can be found??? Must find that video!

I have no idea, I'll see if a person in our club who was on the team would know

 

[pr_rocket04]

That would be wonderful if that video could be found.

 

[pr_rocket04]

Found some more vids too:

https://www.mbrocketry.com/media/videos/videos.htm

 

[Chuck Rudy]

Originally posted by pr_rocket04
Those are also very nice videos. Some of the ones on the Apple page wont load however, like the N3500 video.

Dunno what happened there. Give this a try.

https://homepage.mac.com/wesrudy/.cv/wesrudy/Public/HarBazN3500.mov-link.mov

 

[Bowhunter]

Originally posted by hokkyokusei
M powered 1/4 scale V2.
https://www.ukra.org.uk/videos/royv2.mpg
Failed L3 attempt, despite the additional "mission points".

Wow Ive never seen a lawndart like that. That had to hurt

 

[hokkyokusei]

Originally posted by Bowhunter
Wow Ive never seen a lawndart like that. That had to hurt

It wasn't pretty. He took what was left home in bin-bags IIRC.

 

[North Star]

Originally posted by Bowhunter
Wow Ive never seen a lawndart like that. That had to hurt

It was quite scary too .... you had to be there and hear the whistle as it accellerated back down and I swear you could feel the shockwave as it went in and the fin can bounced back out of the crater. The flight was conducted in complete safety, the impact was downrange and some distance away .. but it was still scary

Had it been a success, Roy would have been the first to gain his L3 flying within the UK

 

[hokkyokusei]

Originally posted by North Star
It was quite scary too .... you had to be there and hear the whistle as it accellerated back down...

If you turn up the volume a bit, you can hear the whistle on the video.

 

[Chuck Rudy]

Originally posted by North Star
It was quite scary too .... you had to be there and hear the whistle as it accellerated back down

I've learned that if you hear the whistle you have nothing to fear. When you don't hear it then it's above you. At a recent launch I heard a pfft-boom.......and an 8 pound bowling ball landed 25 feet away. If it's coming in fast I want to hear a lot of whistliing. ;-)