I remember watching this years and years ago. I finally found it after searching for a while. So glad I did, so many great memories with this video. Still incredible to watch.
I would like to sincerely thank you for not responding like a person with some kind of mental affliction that makes you incapable of responding productively. I stay on TH-cam because of people like you, thank you.
They are little coloured balls of sugar essentially. They are normally used for making "Fairy bread" or decorating various cakes and cookies. They are about 1mm in diameter. Kids and ants love them.
You guys are the best at making bottle rockets! My dad and I build some 2 liter bottle rockets at filled with water with 160 psi and let it rip. Went about 100m into the air and the nose was crushed on impact. We were inspired by you guys! Thanks!
its something away from games! did it at school, landed on roof with a bang! My dad and i have been working on a 4 litre bottle rocket, still need to modify the launcher.. DO u have any tips for making a bigger bottle rocket?
Swagy_Senpai's Get your deployment mechanism working reliably first. As you build bigger rockets you will want to make sure that you are not always rebuilding them. Make sure you scale your fins up appropriately with the rocket to keep it stable. Often people will make fins for their smaller rockets, and then reuse them on bigger rockets and then have stability problems. Get a good supply of bottles, you will need them! Get yourself a good air source. Bigger rockets need lots more air, and while a compressor was fine for a smaller rocket, it may overheat when filling a bigger rocket.... oh and don't forget to have fun. :)
There are two most common kind of launchers for water rocket. One is called the "Clark cable-tie" release system, and the other is called a "Gardena" release system based on garden hose quick connectors. Look these up on the net, there are plenty of examples. The Clark cable tie one uses the full neck of the bottle as a nozzle and gives a very fast take-off. The Gardena one uses a smaller nozzle and gives slower but longer launches. The rockets in this video use the Gardena launcher.
Reasonable question. The point of the demonstration was to show that you don't need a liquid specifically in a water rocket. The fine-grained material acts as a liquid when being ejected from the back of the rocket. The mass of the food material actually provides real thrust. Food was used because it is cheap and fun.
Flour works very well. It seems the finer the particles the better the performance. We've done flour on another video. These were some other "fuel" options.
Yes, depending on the rocket adding some weight to the nose can make it go higher. Each rocket has an optimal weight at a particular pressure, nozzle size and quantity of water. If you build the rocket lighter than the optimal weight then adding more weight can help. If it's over its optimal weight, adding more weight will cause the rocket to fly lower.
We had the original hand-pump water rockets in the '50's. Probably pretty dangerous. We always experimented with different amounts of water and numbers of pumps. Never even thought later how cool large, high-pressure rockets could be... Is there a formula for water volume/total volume and psi?
@rlaan Thanks Ruben, That's a very good question, I suspect there might be something like that occurring, though under acceleration the particles are forced towards the back of the rocket that helps to prevent any open channels from forming.
Please answer this question: Me and my friend are making a science project on rockets and I was wondering how you get your parachute to come out. Thanks it will help a lot.
We use a time based system. The rocket has an electronic timer that detects launch, and then waits a set amount of time before activating a small RC servo motor to open the parachute door and eject the parachute. We have full tutorials on our main website. You can substitute the electronic timer with a mechanical one like a 'Tomy Timer.'
Hi, Guys! Congratulations for the Project and the fuels...awesome!! Do you have the step-by-step vídeo showing the construction of this rocket. I 'll try to do something like this here in Brazil. Thanks!!
I made one in high school. The class goal was time aloft (no parachutes) but I liked seeing it go high so I put some fishing weights on the top of the rocket...goes quite high with some extra weight. Have you guys tried anything of that sort for increased height?
Have you tried to add water to the sugar? what about putting fire in sawdust? do you have any licks with your nozzle? gotta see how do you do to keep the bottles together
We had rice ready to try but ran out of time on the launch day. I think it wouldn't be as effective because of the large gaps between the grains. The air can escape easier between them. We found with the 100's and 1000's they weren't as good as the "fuels" with finer grains. But would be a fun fuel to try.
100's and 1000's are a little sugar spheres I'd say about 1mm in diameter and they come in a range of colours. They are used as decoration on food like cupcakes, fairy bread etc. Very yummy. :)
It's very cost effective to get started with simple water rockets. You may already have all the parts you need at home to build the rocket and launcher.
The problem with heavy fuels is that it also makes the rocket heavy and takes more energy to accelerate. Actually even water is too heavy for optimal performance.
Great picture! Already fabricated a rocket similar to what you have in this video. But the parachute system you use, I could not understand! Also what ever happened to me parachute did not fire, which broke my rocket. Congratulations, one day I'll post a video of my rocket in my channel. Greetings from Brazil, Leandro.
@MrJakeFehr Hee hee... didn't think of that one, but would be interesting. I wonder if you would let the Jello set in the rocket. Our fridge is not big enough to put the whole rocket in. :)
Compressed air pushes it out. The point of the experiment was to show you can use pretty much anything as a reactive mass as long as you can get it to flow out through the nozzle. It doesn't have to be a liquid, just something that acts as a liquid.
Ha! I did that with my son for his elementary school science project. We tried milk, seltzer water, cola, and probably a few other fluids. Messy, but fun.
Straight water would probably work better than noodles and water. The noodles worked the best out of the alternative fuels because the water blocked any air from escaping. With the 100's and 1000's there were big air gaps between the particles and a lot of the pressure escaped between them before it had a chance to eject all of them.
It is, it is the physics we calculated it in engineering class. But of course Im talking about an ideal liquid. Liquids has many properties that make it work worse or better. So a heavy liquid with low viscosity that you push out as fast as possible, should be best.
Reine Gill also, there is a sweet spot total, initial weight that has to be accelerated..... you need to calculate & optimize everything to achieve max altitude.
yall might think im an idiot but i wanted to build one for class how do you get the rocket off the air nozle i know how to pump air into the bottles and all but now how to make it leave the nozle after air pumped in
Sorry. I'm being a bit thick here. I don't follow how you are propelling the rocket. Is the foodstuff just put in for effect at lift off or is it part of a tea rip
Easier said than done. They operate rockets that appear to have ~10L capacity. If you take a 0.5L one and use a weaker fuel of alcohol and even use a wrong mixture ratio, that's still enough to kill you bottle. Plastic bottles can handle pressure, but they die instantly to heat. That's why you really can't make proper bottle rockets with reactive fuels. Also, "mix the two in a rocket motor" ofc
Well, what about nothing! What will be the thrust is just discharging the tanks only with the air inside? May be an smaller nozzle to achieve a bit of longer discharge time?
No, it's still hanging there. It has now lost it's fin, but the whole rocket and parachute are still there. That tree has several pyro rockets hanging in it as well. :(
I love all the crazy innovations you try in your videos.
I remember watching this years and years ago. I finally found it after searching for a while. So glad I did, so many great memories with this video. Still incredible to watch.
I would like to sincerely thank you for not responding like a person with some kind of mental affliction that makes you incapable of responding productively. I stay on TH-cam because of people like you, thank you.
They are little coloured balls of sugar essentially. They are normally used for making "Fairy bread" or decorating various cakes and cookies. They are about 1mm in diameter. Kids and ants love them.
You guys are the best at making bottle rockets! My dad and I build some 2 liter bottle rockets at filled with water with 160 psi and let it rip. Went about 100m into the air and the nose was crushed on impact. We were inspired by you guys! Thanks!
Thanks for the nice words Atomic. :) Glad to hear you are having fun with water rockets too.
its something away from games! did it at school, landed on roof with a bang! My dad and i have been working on a 4 litre bottle rocket, still need to modify the launcher.. DO u have any tips for making a bigger bottle rocket?
Swagy_Senpai's Get your deployment mechanism working reliably first. As you build bigger rockets you will want to make sure that you are not always rebuilding them. Make sure you scale your fins up appropriately with the rocket to keep it stable. Often people will make fins for their smaller rockets, and then reuse them on bigger rockets and then have stability problems. Get a good supply of bottles, you will need them! Get yourself a good air source. Bigger rockets need lots more air, and while a compressor was fine for a smaller rocket, it may overheat when filling a bigger rocket.... oh and don't forget to have fun. :)
Im going to mars tomorrow with noodles
Use Mars Bars for fuel then.
go get mars and snickers
Saiu da estratosfera!
Don’t be daft , you need Rocket lettuce to get to mars , it’s not lettuce science is it lol
Fuck it's 1 am and I'm watching a guy launch a rocket with bread crumbs
+MrayCure182 Perhaps you are just dreaming. I mean c'mon who puts breadcrumbs in a rocket? That's crazy talk.
Its 2am and I just watched a guy launch a rocket with 2 minute noodles. lol
MrayCure182 it's 1:21 am.
Subbed! This is so cool! Today I learned important lesson in rocketry: the more messy is the 'fuel', the better flight is to expect. :D
There are two most common kind of launchers for water rocket. One is called the "Clark cable-tie" release system, and the other is called a "Gardena" release system based on garden hose quick connectors. Look these up on the net, there are plenty of examples. The Clark cable tie one uses the full neck of the bottle as a nozzle and gives a very fast take-off. The Gardena one uses a smaller nozzle and gives slower but longer launches. The rockets in this video use the Gardena launcher.
Bread crumbs? I guess that's what Hansel and Gretel would use if they were to try launching rockets.
Reasonable question. The point of the demonstration was to show that you don't need a liquid specifically in a water rocket. The fine-grained material acts as a liquid when being ejected from the back of the rocket. The mass of the food material actually provides real thrust. Food was used because it is cheap and fun.
We spliced them together with glue. We have a full tutorial on our main website that shows you how. Look under construction/asymetric splice #5.
Do you mean what kind of launcher we used? We use a Gardena launcher with these rockets.
Flour works very well. It seems the finer the particles the better the performance. We've done flour on another video. These were some other "fuel" options.
You could try corn starch and have an ignition source beside the launch pad, that would be interesting to watch. :)
+Lachlan Hamilton Just add water and you can have pancakes !
@ GAME BUSTERS, no there was no water added (except for the noodles)
A good question. IIRC you only get 1/2 to 2/3 the altitude with air only.
I think these would work well, but we have resisted testing these due to potential repiratory issues in breathing this stuff in at the launch site.
Yes, depending on the rocket adding some weight to the nose can make it go higher. Each rocket has an optimal weight at a particular pressure, nozzle size and quantity of water. If you build the rocket lighter than the optimal weight then adding more weight can help. If it's over its optimal weight, adding more weight will cause the rocket to fly lower.
100's and 1000's : you created a new particle accellerator. Excellent experiments!
I was wondering, does the rocket have the blowthrough effect a few seconds in the launch like it always has with water? Nice stuff! Cheers Ruben
We had the original hand-pump water rockets in the '50's. Probably pretty dangerous.
We always experimented with different amounts of water and numbers of pumps. Never even thought later how cool large, high-pressure rockets could be...
Is there a formula for water volume/total volume and psi?
can u guys do a video on how to build the platform
@hitman62803 It is just a standard Gardena Launcher.
Yes you can use those, but from previous tests we haven't really seen any difference between pop and normal water.
@rlaan Thanks Ruben, That's a very good question, I suspect there might be something like that occurring, though under acceleration the particles are forced towards the back of the rocket that helps to prevent any open channels from forming.
Allowing for the mess, have you considered using flour, or icing sugar?
Please answer this question: Me and my friend are making a science project on rockets and I was wondering how you get your parachute to come out. Thanks it will help a lot.
We use a time based system. The rocket has an electronic timer that detects launch, and then waits a set amount of time before activating a small RC servo motor to open the parachute door and eject the parachute. We have full tutorials on our main website. You can substitute the electronic timer with a mechanical one like a 'Tomy Timer.'
Hi, Guys!
Congratulations for the Project and the fuels...awesome!!
Do you have the step-by-step vídeo showing the construction of this rocket. I 'll try to do something like this here in Brazil. Thanks!!
Have you ever tried it with some liquid with high viscosity instead of water? if so, what was the result?
I made one in high school. The class goal was time aloft (no parachutes) but I liked seeing it go high so I put some fishing weights on the top of the rocket...goes quite high with some extra weight. Have you guys tried anything of that sort for increased height?
You can fly the rockets with air only, but they don't perform as well as they do when they have some kind of reaction mass.
Have you tried to add water to the sugar?
what about putting fire in sawdust?
do you have any licks with your nozzle?
gotta see how do you do to keep the bottles together
We had rice ready to try but ran out of time on the launch day. I think it wouldn't be as effective because of the large gaps between the grains. The air can escape easier between them. We found with the 100's and 1000's they weren't as good as the "fuels" with finer grains. But would be a fun fuel to try.
Have you considered using Jell-O after it has hardened.
how do you fill it with air
oradaki karışım karpit tozuyla felan güçlendirilebilirmi acaba?
How did you join two PET bottles together end on end so as to hold the pressure?
I must also do for school but with water
how many liters is your rocket
and where is your platform made
how you fire it off
Do the noodles actually work better than water, or were they just the best out of the alternatives used in the video?
100's and 1000's are a little sugar spheres I'd say about 1mm in diameter and they come in a range of colours. They are used as decoration on food like cupcakes, fairy bread etc. Very yummy. :)
I am so enjoying watching these! Thanks! You're a great commentator too!
These rockets are sooo efficient! Youre gonna make the future!!!
How much noodles did you use and did you use baking soda?
2:20 did you say "this is what it s like inside a "party-cle accelerator"? cause of the jimmies?
@WaterRocketeer Thanks. The 100's and 1000s were definitely interesting to launch.
It's very cost effective to get started with simple water rockets. You may already have all the parts you need at home to build the rocket and launcher.
i love people who react on questions in the comments
Was this the rocket that was recovered almost a year later? :)
How did you guys get into this hobby? Just curious.
The problem with heavy fuels is that it also makes the rocket heavy and takes more energy to accelerate. Actually even water is too heavy for optimal performance.
How did you make the launching pad? PLEASE tell me !!!
We have used flour a number of times in the past, and definitely works great. Leaves a nice "smoke" trail. :)
Can you send the link on how to build the aluncher
How much air pressure did you use
What did you use to make it launch?
Amazing rocket!
could you make a video of how to make the rocket from scratch.
i assume u added water aswell?
How long did you put your timer on for?
Great picture! Already fabricated a rocket similar to what you have in this video. But the parachute system you use, I could not understand! Also what ever happened to me parachute did not fire, which broke my rocket. Congratulations, one day I'll post a video of my rocket in my channel.
Greetings from Brazil,
Leandro.
@MrJakeFehr Hee hee... didn't think of that one, but would be interesting. I wonder if you would let the Jello set in the rocket. Our fridge is not big enough to put the whole rocket in. :)
But what did you do with the fuel???
Did you put in on fire or what did you do with it, to make it work???
Compressed air pushes it out. The point of the experiment was to show you can use pretty much anything as a reactive mass as long as you can get it to flow out through the nozzle. It doesn't have to be a liquid, just something that acts as a liquid.
can you please explain the model and construction of the rocket?
Ha! I did that with my son for his elementary school science project. We tried milk, seltzer water, cola, and probably a few other fluids. Messy, but fun.
heyy , what is the trigger mechanism used here ?
I think it is a quick release valve similar to ones used on nail guns, only a little fatter than the standard nail gun fitting.
Straight water would probably work better than noodles and water. The noodles worked the best out of the alternative fuels because the water blocked any air from escaping. With the 100's and 1000's there were big air gaps between the particles and a lot of the pressure escaped between them before it had a chance to eject all of them.
i was wondering if u wood try jello instead of water bet it wood work really well
Thanks, we have full build tutorials available on our main website.
did you ever try carbonated water? or coke with mentos? :)
Yes we did try carbonated water. It made very little difference in thrust.
from where can we get these items?
If you look at the physics... the fuel should be as heavy as possible, and be pushed out as quickly as possible. Why don't you try iron fillings ?
+Rune Kromolty Not necessarily true. Have a look at this experiment where we try different density liquids: th-cam.com/video/Fu3rIiPy_18/w-d-xo.html
It is, it is the physics we calculated it in engineering class. But of course Im talking about an ideal liquid. Liquids has many properties that make it work worse or better. So a heavy liquid with low viscosity that you push out as fast as possible, should be best.
Reine Gill also, there is a sweet spot total, initial weight that has to be accelerated..... you need to calculate & optimize everything to achieve max altitude.
how do you get it out of the tree
Did u get it down from the tree
Wut happen if u dun fill anything? Can it still 'pump up' high?
yall might think im an idiot but i wanted to build one for class how do you get the rocket off the air nozle i know how to pump air into the bottles and all but now how to make it leave the nozle after air pumped in
What is the best fuel you've used?
Flour is a lot of fun. :)
AirCommandRockets I would have thought plain water, as it's dense and incompressible
Could u add stabilizers to the rocket
what camera was used for the slow motion?
How did u make it
Buy the rocket ot launcher?
Yup, that's the one. It was in really bad shape, but the electronics, tornado tube and nozzle were still good. :)
@TheSparcoss They are 2 minute noodles. Something similar to spaghetti. :)
you should definitely upload a 'how to make' video about both the missile and the launcher
Sorry. I'm being a bit thick here. I don't follow how you are propelling the rocket. Is the foodstuff just put in for effect at lift off or is it part of a tea rip
I'm no chemist , but would warm water work better ?
Good question.
was it hard to get the hobby started?
Did you get it back
Yes, it eventually fell out of the tree after about 392 days. :) Deploy electronics still worked fine with a fresh battery.
Howd did you put a chute
how do you mke that release system
You clearly need a light substance with a large surface area to colide with more of the air to generate thrust
Jello would sure be interesting, especially if you let it set in the rocket. This might be a good option for launching water rockets horizontally. :)
How will that help
what about powdered magnesium across a ignition source :D pressurize one chamber with o2 and the mag chamber with co2
mix the two in a rocket motor.
Easier said than done. They operate rockets that appear to have ~10L capacity. If you take a 0.5L one and use a weaker fuel of alcohol and even use a wrong mixture ratio, that's still enough to kill you bottle. Plastic bottles can handle pressure, but they die instantly to heat. That's why you really can't make proper bottle rockets with reactive fuels. Also, "mix the two in a rocket motor" ofc
Magnesium can burn with CO2, too.
And pressurizing the gas is not making it better..
Great shot of the 100's and 1000's when they bounce back off the launcher into the stream again!
can you tell me, How Can i buy it?
Well, what about nothing! What will be the thrust is just discharging the tanks only with the air inside? May be an smaller nozzle to achieve a bit of longer discharge time?
so like sprinkles?
How do you make it
did you guys use water with the bread crumbs?
No just dry.
No, it's still hanging there. It has now lost it's fin, but the whole rocket and parachute are still there. That tree has several pyro rockets hanging in it as well. :(