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You are absolutely correct! The rocket is much older, but the reversed video clip and Picture in Picture is from a 1995 children’s movie about space flight, here specifically talking about re-entry and landing.

😂 honestly probably true

McDonnell Douglas had the DC-X in the mid 90's doing vertical take-off and landing. It was a rocket, albeit a 1/3rd scale demonstrator. I think SpaceX might have been the first to land an inverted pendulum style rocket though.

@@kylegordon and was the other one orbital (or semi-orbital)?

@@kylegordon glorified jet helicopter

@ThomasNance-e7w neither the DC-X short for Delta Clipper Experimental performed 12 flights over 3 years climbing to 10,300feet demonstrating a series of manoeuvres to show its versatility in flight, a slow to hover translation then a short horizontal nose up flight, a translation in flying backwards then culminating the flight by descending back to the landing pad in the New Mexico desert. The vehicle stood 40ft tall was made of composites and its four RL-10A-5 engines were powered by a mix of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and 4 hydrolox manoeuvring thrusters. Looking like a stubby vertical elongated pyramid and built by McDonnell Douglas in just 2 Years at a cost of $60 million and operated in conjunction with the department of defences SDIO project from 1993 to 1995 then transferred over to NASA in 1996 who upgraded the design into the DC-XA 'Advanced’. Further tests continued until its fateful last flight on 31st July 1996 when a landing strut failed to deploy and the vehicle tipped over exploding into flames. NASA decided not to rebuild the DC-XA as they had never fully believed in the project and only begrudgingly took it over due to public pressure/criticism after positive reactions to the DC-X tests flights.NASA were involved with the shuttle replacement the X-33/Venture star project by Lockheed at the time. Former Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad who was involved with the DC-X project as the remote pilot was critical of NASAs handling saying a new DC-XA could be built incorporating all of the new upgrades for just $50million a small price compared to the $922million for the X-33/Venture Star NASA project which was eventually cancelled. The dedicated team of engineers and scientists that had worked on this from the beginning where worn out from working on such a knife edge shoestring budget project which was at risk of cancellation at any point. It had taken its toll on many of the team working in the hot New Mexico desert under pressure with little support operating out the back of a portable launch control on a flat bed truck using off the shelf parts and repurposed equipment for the vehicle. Many of the team went on to work at Blue Origin, SpaceX, Masten and Armadillo Space who took what was learned from the DC-X-Delta Clipper and applied to their launch vehicles. Both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have praised the work done by the dedicated team behind the Clipper DC-XA vehicle acknowledging their pioneering hard work in VTOL. Check out the videos on TH-cam if the test flights it was quite a remarkable rocket.

Yeah, I need to come up with a better solution there…

Hey thanks! Good idea, I’ll keep that in mind!

I started with Touch Terrain online, then tried writing scripts to do more complex maps. It took hours of struggling and researching to do what QGIS can do in minutes!

@@benjaminconklin5547 Great job on the scripts! I really like the mindset for automating the process.

Thank you!

I'm glad someone named the software down here, I couldn't tell if he said QJIS or QGIS and I can't stream in a high enough quality to see the window title (I can stream HD normally, but when someone uploads in 50 or 60 FPS my network connexion struggles with twice the normal load)

@@dafoex 👍🏻 I didnt know this software before and felt in rabbit holes since then

Thank you! Fixed now

​@@benjaminconklin5547 for the future. Blur is not destructive:P

Or could you please at least share the script

I'll do one better than that: th-cam.com/video/0j39YYXl7ls/w-d-xo.html

What a madman not to use a vertical tabs plug-in!

One of us...one of us....

never understood why folks use up all their computer memory by having chrome tabs just sitting there unused. Use a manager like Toby... a few clicks to get full tab groups opened when you need them only.

​@@pesto12601the trick is to use an extension that holds all your tabs in stasis. I forget what it's called, but I have 800 tabs open and only the most recent ones are 'open'.

It gives me anxiety.

Check out this companion short for the printed maps! th-cam.com/users/shortsm3n_cj2kKuw I might make a more cinematic video later…

Great suggestion! At the moment I don’t have a 0.2mm nozzle, but I probably should. One benefit of the 0.16mm layer height is that at this scale each layer is approximately equal to 166m of vertical elevation and you can count or compare them. That’s fine for mountains, but more level terrain (east coast for example) will definitely benefit from finer layers.

Glad you liked it!

Thanks! I set the viewport shading to solid and turn on Cavity (in the viewport shading drop-down menu)

Hey thank you!

I just used wood glue on the cardboard so it is sturdy enough before the fiberglass. It has been in the water only a couple times since finishing, and there were a couple pinprick holes in the outer layer (even with a coat of marine varnish). This only let a little water in, so there is a bit of discoloration but it is still good otherwise.

Hey thanks! This wasn’t a very informative short, so I made a better video! th-cam.com/video/UFNnxB64mbA/w-d-xo.html

Soon! (TM)

I’ve seen people print scales and logos on fabrics before; a handful of binder clips and you’d be in business! (If the fabric isn’t too stretchy)

I hope you try it.

Nope, just put the fiberglass straight onto the raw cardboard. In retrospect I probably should have sealed it with something first because later I did have a few tiny leaks that discolored the cardboard.

Ha ha! All the explanation is in the long I posted in the description!

TLDR!

I’m planning to refine the process a bit and upload a more comprehensive video later, but the idea is that it can help manage pain and refocus a mother in labor by squeezing the tines of the comb in her palm, something like this: cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-6bs4ew82cy/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/255/1141/F8DBCE40-9219-46D5-A518-50CE960DE750__10876.1649979300.png?c=1 Otherwise it is just a really corse hair comb.

I’m sure it could be good for low speed turbines. Since I only used one layer of the fiberglass cloth there were still a few tiny gaps that let water slowly leak in. No structural damage, just some discoloration.

As this was my first foray into composites, I just got the cheapest square woven fiberglass cloth I could. I only used one layer, so the weave gave a better final surface too.

I used a two part epoxy

Sure Thing! Here is the remix on Thingiverse! www.thingiverse.com/thing:5207232