A lot of spewage from a two-foot tall, 1.5″-wide rocket with a golf ball for a nose and 3D-printed fins. The pad was destroyed from the whip vector on the rod.
Here’s the Video and photo sequence below.
2 responses to “Fire Fountain from the Supersonic 3D-Printed Rocket Test”
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Rocksim has it breaking Mach 1 in less than 2 seconds, pulling 69 g’s
With a peak speed of 1,286 MPH, and if it flew straight up, it would go to 7,642 ft.Launch control
The new Aerotech I280 Dark Matter single use motor:
Very cool shower of white-hot titanium sponge overhead
And look at the launch pad… the kick snapped two legs!
From the video forensics, I can see how the rail lugs need to be farther apart and beefier (this led to a lost fin at launch and a collapsed pad). I will use 1" square metal launch rail from now on.This morning, the nearby golf course called, having found our lawn dart:
From the remains, I now know that that I am using too much gunpowder to eject the golf ball and streamer. Even the steel wool did not protect the red Danger tape spool from melting together inside. The ballistic return jammed the motor up to the front of the tube on the right.Video
P.S. Happy Birthday Buzz Aldrin. =)
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