Water Rocket flies to 1752 feet (534m)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- This is a highlights video of our high pressure water rocket called Dark Shadow flown at "Thunda Down Under" in Westmar, Queensland on 13th and 15th March 2015.
The video shows the 3 flights flown over that weekend as we progressively increased the pressure.
For a full flight report please visit:
www.AirCommandRockets.com/day1...
For a detailed build log of this rocket please see:
www.AirCommandRockets.com/dark...
For more info on the event please see:
thunda.com.au - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
5:30 those clouds were beautiful
It is the launch amazing .
I was overwhelmed by the grandeur of the technical capabilities and results .
Oh Wow that was so cool,those camera shots going up are incredible.Good on you blokes for doing a good job.
These are pretty much the grown-up version of the hydro rockets everyone played with as kids. Looks like a helluva lot of fun!
Never thought a water rocket could go so high!
Amazing rocket and amazing flights! Good job guys!
Wow, did not expect a Water/Air powered rocket to leave the launch pad that fast. That thing really moves!! Impressive flights guys.
Loved this, not sure how I found it because I was looking at rocket explosions than this. I used to use distress flare motors as rockets back when the biggest motor was a D. But sadly these days laws have really tightened up in relation to expire distress flares. The good old fun days are now over. Having fun now is a criminal activity. I was worried your first flight day was Friday 13!
Be careful with pressure vessels, sadly I know a few people in my line of work who have nearly been killed by them failing. There is absolutely no warning of failure.
+leokimvideo Thanks. We thought Friday the 13th was more than appropriate to try something new :) I couldn't agree more about the dangers of pressure chambers. They look so innocent just sitting there, but they are very dangerous especially at these pressures. This is why we stand a long way back and can depressurise them remotely if needed. We have had quite a few fail over the years. th-cam.com/video/cROVwjIZa1Q/w-d-xo.html
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Wow, you got to meet Homer Hickam too! Brilliant! Rocket Boys is one of my favourite books.
An impressive result! Exciting video of the flight! Definitely something to strive for!
Much discipline and attention to detail. Great Video!
Your rockets always fly so stable. Its incredible. Not a hint of spin on em and always straight vertical launch.
That is awesome!! And a lot cheaper to fly than solid fuel rockets. Great video footage.
Impressive. :) Beautiful demonstration of physics!
I am impressed by the spin stabilization. Usually the thing spins so fast, it renders the video useless. Great job!
Awesome rocket! I love it when people take a basic principle to its extreme with modern materials, equipment, and engineering. Very cool project!
a water rocket bazooka would be really cool. keep up the good work!
Very well done guys! Inspiring.
Thank you for the video. Good job on your rocket.
These are actually one of the most impressive onboard footages I've ever seen.
The height looks almost incredible. You did a really good job at your build log, I just scrolled through it and was impressed by the level of detail. I'll definitely read the two pages tomorrow.
It would be awesome if you could place the onboard camera in another angle so that it films a bit of the rocket itself at your next launch. Keep up your work, your rockets are getting better and better and it's truly stunning with how much precision you work. Also very good video editing. :)
Cheers
Julian
RaketfuedRockets Thank you Julian, we were happy with how little spin there was on the rocket. The new fin alignment jig worked really well. The angle of the video camera was intentional so it would film the horizon near the top of the frame as most of the interesting things to see are on the ground. Because the camera is in the nosecone (that's where there was room) we had limited capability of looking down the rocket without extending the lens/mirror further out into the air stream and causing more drag. I'm happy to answer questions about the build if I missed something in the build log. :)
Great Build !!! Pretty darn impressive to get a water rocket to that altitude especially when you were only expecting 1400 ft ! Keep up the great work !
Cheers Roger. Here is a video of our latest rocket that has managed to get over 3,100 feet. th-cam.com/video/OTArDzG2veg/w-d-xo.html
Very impressive build and performance! Enjoyed your video very much!
Thanks Migsterification :)
This is the best rocket ever I see I can see when it goes up
Great as always!
Cool, from Arizona, great work keep reaching higher
Amazing! Congratulations
Remarkable engineering , well done you guys !!!
Brilliant footage from the on board camera.
Amazing :) Especially the nice vids showing a nice earth look high up in the sky as if you were on a mountain!
+Wim Hamhuis Thanks Wim :)
Wonderful stable onboard camera footage with very little spin! Very impressive acceleration. Great engineering and build guys.
Cheers Mike. :)
Wow! Great rocket, great video! Thanks.
Impressive flight! Congratulations on 534m
Wow! Incredible.... I need to make one of these.
Don't we all! I think I have spare parts kicking around to build 3 or 4, maybe 5.
@Zbynek Valek: We bought the AltimeterOne from JollyLogic but they are available through a number of distributors. The zLog Mod 6 altimeters we bought from Hexpert Systems direct.
Hi AirCommand Rockets, as always, great launches and great presentation, you guys are second to none in the world when it comes to Water Rockets. It was great to catch up and witness the flights first hand at THUNDA Down Under 2015.
David Bell Thanks Dave, it was great catching up with you at Thunda. :) Your flights at Thunda weren't too shabby either. How many thousands of Ns did you end up burning again!?! And that L3 flight was done in awesome style! :)
AirCommandRockets Hi mate, thanks, only 30,483 Ns (49% O), I had planned on upwards of 85,000 Ns but just ran out of time, next time I will bring along a support team :-) My major issue was that when launching the Patriot on a cluster (which i did twice, I had planned to launch a total of 5 clustered flights), the central inboard motor's exhaust would melt the outboard motors plastic thrust rings (CTI 38mm) resulting in a 6 hr turn around time between flights as the melted thrust rings would mold themselves to the threads of the GLR Slimline Retainers and had to be mechanically removed... :-(
Amazing work!
Flew higher than North Korea's nuclear missiles...
undefined not anymore lol
hey at least these dont fall apart like their ICBMs do !!! lol !!! 😂😂😂
And less inflated than the US Dollar...
Actually, no
Boring. Every rocket on TH-cam has same Kim Yong crappy joke
Sensacional!!! Matias - Uberaba - Brasil.
Wow awesome! Didn't even know you could do this with water pressure alone, very cool. Thanks for the video!
Fantastic application of water thrust!
very nice rocket!😃
Not so much bottle rockets anymore :-) Awesome flights!
AirCommandRockets Great work. Beautiful footage on the ascent.
Cheers ***** , we were happy with the fin alignment on this rocket. :)
U have been doing this for 5 years now this thing is amazing
2 seconds = more than 500feet = wow
500 METERS. So like, 3x wow.
METERS AND LITERS ! ! ! I UNDERSTAND THAT ! ! !
i think US should start to use metric system instead
Brilliant work!
Meters and liters and grams, oh my! Sorry, couldn't resist :-P
Aussies even adopted the kW instead of BHP/HP/PS and so on... which is more then most metric countries... but then again PSI is not metric is it? BAR should be more correct.. and the announcer tells the pressure in PSI... so they are almost there :-)
Btw 500 PSI is around 34 BAR which is enormous pressure... lol made this comment before the "conversion" came up in the picture... ah well...
@Alexander A better choice, only based on which one is "more metric", I would ague would be Pascal, since it is approved by the SI.
Idk why but the hole video feels like a message of hope
Very cool that Homer Hickam was there. I love his story. Watching the Falcon Heavy flight today made me think of him.
If you are seeing this comment, Space X has made thier first manned mission to the ISS
If you are seeing this comment, spacex starship orbital test blew up 4 minutes from launch. ( ik its late )
They have done like 8 now
If you use redbull instead of water you can go higher
If you use alcohol and light it up, you will actually go higher
+leteveryoneknow great idea as they launch the rocket the alcohol exiting through the valve will be ignited by a electronic ignition system
but redbull gives you wings
Kamelito Toe yeah sure but rocket does not need wings
not with that attitude
Cool! Amazing acceleration! Greetings from Poland
Fantastic work!
so fun watching the on board camera
bro i did one of these in 7th grade mine went 400m and everyone else was using just regular bottles so they couldn't even measure mine :(
Awesome job.
You are prob all very proud, which you should be.!!
Thank you for sharing.
love water rockets! as kids we would get those plastic toy water rockets, and pump up the pressure as high as we could get it...had a few "failures" (explosions!), but we finally got a pressure that wouldn't blow up the plastic rocket, but which would REALLY make it take off and soar MUCH higher than the "instructions" said it would go...
Love the fish eye lens. Peace
It gives a wider view?
You should install a G-Meter on the rocket so you know how much vertical forces are on the rocket at liftoff etc etc.
I don't think that you would get any
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I was surprised at how limited the electronics package was. Accelerometers at least. And I didn’t see max speed achieved.
Use maths to find out.
@@IrishNational can't use math to get precise results
@@tennicktenstyl you can how you think Quantum Physics works... You do velocity of the size of the tip of Rockett against the gravity and air/atmospheric pressure acting against it.
AMAZING VIDEO!
That was a great video! Thanks for the upload. I'd like to visit there someday. Greetings from Arizona.
+Thema inproblem Cheers :)
That is some serious water bottle...
@Bowan Whalley Do you mean model/HPR rocketry events? Look up the Tripoli guys in Victoria, they do hold HPR launches on a regular basis.
+Dad OF Four. Yes, the movie is about Homer's life. :) He's been a great inspiration for many rocketeers.
+Dad OF Four October Sky is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys'
+Dad OF Four The movie stinks. Read the book, it's great.
This clip gets better every time l watch it.
Love your work.
+Nathan Trigg "good choice of music."
Old video, but man that thing takes off like a...well...a rocket... Amazing.
Sempre se superando.
Um hobby fantástico!
Sorocaba - Brasil.
Holy shit! This is just incredible i am very proud of you guys! 534 meter is just a altitude where you can dream of with a water rocket. I am working on a fiber glass rocket too and i want to thank you guys for the big inspiration ;) Uswaterrocket got a new opponent haha. Keep up the good work and just enjoy this wonderful hobby!
Basrockets Thank you for the nice words Basrockets. :) It was a little higher than we were initially expecting, but happy that it stayed together at that pressure. It gets a little scary at these pressures so we extended the hose to almost double to what we normally use. Good luck with the fiberglass rocket, I'm looking forward to the launch reports.
Theoretically, keep on increasing the pressure and eventually send astronauts to the moon
I have a sense someone will get wooshed
MAPP Gaming yeh true
Nop, problems with the g-force. Maybe if there is such a strong valve... and storage too -> equals much more weight
@@1080pixel he get wooshed
@@adly.prastya no
congratz !!
nice flight
hugs from brazil
Nice rocket,and thanks for sharing it with us!.
+jamie geen No Worries, thanks for dropping by. :)
I wonder if making the water slipperier (detergent) would you get fast exhaust flow.?
And/or more dense buy adding salt?
0:22 in the nose cone we have nuclear warhead
AWESOME! Homer Hickam there in Australia, that was awesome too.
Some of the greatest roll stability that I have ever seen in amateur / high power rocketry. Great looking air frame as well.
Thanks Manning Machine, we were happy how that turned out. We used a different fin alignment jig this time, and it looks like it did the job. :)
It's a bird, It's a plane, nope, It's a water rocket !
Super nice work guys !
600psi! Holy moly! As much as I'd hate to see it fail I'd be interested to know how much it could take before exploding.
StarlightVisual That's the big question. We first made a test chamber that was about 70cm long and it was still holding 650psi. We wanted to burst it, but we were also getting close to the safe limit for the hose and so we aborted the test. We're not sure how much more it will hold, but intend to find out at the next launch. :)
Best of luck! Keep safe though :)
Do you did a static teste with water instead of compressed air?
Great launch George. That is an amazing water rocket.
Rhys's Rocket Project Thanks Rhys, It's a little too big to bring to Whalan :)
This is cool. When I was younger I had one of the little red plastic water rockets.
3:40 flat earthers-i pretend that i didnt see that one🤣😂
Congratulations George, and the hole team ! Your achievement is really really amazing.
Beautiful flight and video. You have now less than 100m to gain ;)) and you can do it!
Marius Dinescu Cheers Marius :), we think the rocket still has a little more up its sleeve, but I think we are close to the pressure limit with this one. We can now model this rocket a bit better in the simulator since we know a little more about its actual performance.
Servo deployment? Here I've been using BP which at extreme altitudes often fails miserably. That's a great idea.
Having grown up building (and destroying) Estes model rockets, and sneering at the silly US$8.00 water rockets one got at a department store, I am now chagrined.
Thanks for showing us this, great stuff!
The guy said 3, 2, 1, Ignition ????
Wow, zero emissions as well!
Really good footage!
Excellent!!
Congrats.
They flew on Friday 13th 🤦♂️
107 people were traumatized by water-bottle rockets flying into their eyeball.
Jason Axford
Hundreds of thousands of people are traumatized/ killed in car crashes.
Bungee jumping? Wing suit base jumping?
How many were traumatized by burning solid fuel rockets?
Your point?
Point: they disliked the video.
r/wooosh
Larry Scott r/wooosh
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Fantastic flight !
Congratulations, beautiful releases, beautiful images, perfect.
Vicente Garcia de Magalhães Junior Thanks Vicente, we had fun launching this rocket, although it was a little scary because we didn't know what may happen. :)
AirCommandRockets Sure, 500 psi leaves the most exciting play hehehe. But once again congratulate you for contemplating us with all these innovations, which always result in beautiful releases.
That's awesome you got Homer to sign it!
FRIDAY THE 13th!?
Really impressive, what blows my mind is the explosive acceleration. I didn't know that acceleration like that was even possible. Could it be even faster using a gas instead of a liquid, but then I guess it would be a lot more dangerous in case of an accidental explosion. Fantastic work!
Congratulations! Great flights, and a beautiful rocket.
bugwubber Thank you bugwubber. :)
Awesome Love This, If you are ever in Texas, please let us know ! Thank you #concretesoundmirrors
Wow George, that is an incredible rocket. I could only dream of getting back off the ground, let alone such amazing heights. Fantastic job guys, and I'm looking forward to seeing what else you guys have to show us in the future.
ReptiglorandRockets Thanks Randy, good to hear from you. :) We'll send this one up again and its slightly bigger twin to see how far we can push the pressure with this airframe, though I think we are fairly close to its limit.
You guys never cease to amaze! I'm going to have to watch this video a few more times to try and absorb it all. ;) Cheers, b.
biggles1024 Thanks Biggles. :)
That's nothin, I've got much higher than that with a water bong!
Phill Huddleston hydro I suspect.
Phill Huddleston
Yeah, but this rocket doesnt demand pizza.
Phill Huddleston nice one
Noice!!! Perfect remark!! Hydro-Powered!!!
How do you make bottle rockets easily?
Esse video prova que a terra não é plana!!!!
Beautiful job and beautiful rocket. Congratulations on a great accomplishment. I didn't realize that water rockets could go that high.
Cheers. :) Here is another video where we push the altitude a little further... th-cam.com/video/OTArDzG2veg/w-d-xo.html
Heat the water up to boiling and then try it with a tiny electrolysis device in the exhaust to ignite and catalyze the propellant in flight.
Should just keep increasing the pressure till it blows up.
+TheYobbo71 That's the plan. :) ... we've had it up to 700psi now ... next will be 730psi
+AirCommandRockets So far what is the highest it has gotten since this video? :)