Visiting with Huell Howser: Roton Rocket
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in California as Huell visits the Roton Rocket, an unsuccessful yet imaginative attempt by a private company to create the first single stage to orbit space vehicle. Theoretically, it could deliver cargo and people to space at a dramatically reduced cost as compared to today’s vehicles with its unique design allowing the rocket to take off and land vertically by using helicopter-type blades, or rotors.
I love the traffic jam at 12:59 from all the people stopping to watch like "look that grain silo is flying away"
This design was originally supposed to use a proprietary high performance rotating engine. But to simplify the design, the company eventually opted for an off-the shelf Fastrac engine designed by NASA. The is the same engine that served as the starting point for the design of the SpaceX Merlin engine used on the Falcon 9.
This would be really neat as the second stage of a Falcon 9, of course with the Merlin engine. Two stage to orbit but fully reusable. But how would you put the engine underneath and still retain the heat shield?
Having been a avionics tech at Edwards AFB, and living in N. Edwards, I had a few visites to Mojave Airport.
This is the first airport to be designated as a civilian Space Port.
This was where the Voyager, the aircraft that went around the wirld on one tank of fuel in 1986.
This was where Spaceship One was built, that one the X-Prize in 2004.
Look up Scaled Components. That is where both above aircraft were built. They are very nice about visiting their lobby and getting business cards of the engeneers.
I did some illustrations of this thing for wired magazine back then, and it seemed like a pretty interesting idea that solved a lot of the difficulties with SSO landings.
he should have given Binnie credit for being a commercial astronaut. Binnie flew SpaceShipOne into space during the X Prize. RIP.
If man can think it...he can probably build it. Absolutely amazing.
I remember when Huell Howser visited Springfield and gave it only two stars.
great documentation I always wondered about it, this is way better than the wikipedia article.
A good show! Learned a lot.
excellant job.
What a great show....I NEVER knew the Rotor Rocket existed or was successfully prototyped...to what we have now in 2021 - commercial space flight in orbit: Richard Branson's, "Virgin Galactic" spacecraft and Jeff Bezos, "Blue Origins" spacecraft. Hats off and Godspeed to all test pilots, everywhere.
THANK YOU
It just needed to swap a helicopt blade for twin/quadra o-ring propells around the neck area of the craft to modernize as a part blade v-flight drone, a long with suspention land gears, possibly even gyrosoptic balance if successfuly use like a lunar lander for Moon/Mars, or a jumbo version of the SpaceX "Starship" top stage canister.
Inspired by the Rotary Rocket, I've built my Rocket Drone. 🚀
MINIONS to SPACE Space space! 🤪🤣👍🇺🇸
Very coOL.
Like Hugh hausner would say amazing!
It's still in Mojave to this day, never made it to the Ramona Museum
Cool!
BTW, the FAA (helicopter) registration is N99ORR.
And SpaceX proved that this concept could work, and does work!
I remember reading (and laughing) about this sometime around the year 2000, I can't believe that it still exists. Was this filmed recently?
Edit: I guess this was filmed sometime in 2003? It looks like the relocation of the Roton failed and it's still in Mojave.
I saw it there a few years ago. It doesn't have the rotor system on it. The rotor head can be seen at the Classic Rotors museum in Ramona, Ca. By the way, test
pilot Brian Binnie made space flight history in 2004 in SpaceShipOne.
@@philipmartin708 Hardly history, spaceplane pilots were achieving FAR greater things, long before SpaceShipOne ever flew. Private spaceflight is a sick joke, not historically significant.
No wonder this is in standard definition and it’s upscaled
thanks to him. many people claim UFO
NO! leave it where it was used (in context)
Was this shot before or after Huell broke up with Louie ?
Pretty cool but probably not going to make it to space.
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Interesting that it ended up in mojave at a little museum. What is the hangar being used for?
The "national test pilot school"
Ку!
WHY?
The start of ufos
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SN#11 just crashed and burned on 3/30/21.🤷♂️
SpaceX destroyed that project.
the mic guy is totally annoying. what a peasant
Agreed