DIY Rocket Powered Plane!
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Ive always wanted to attach rocket engines to a styrofoam plane, so I went to the hobby shop and bought all kinds of rocket engines! They come in sizes A, B, C, D, and E. Each step up is 2x as powerfull as the last. I also made my own F class sugar rockets based on Grant Thompsons design, but I must have done something wrong because they kept exploding :(
Music: Halcyon Days- Mokhov - Zábava
For some reason, the entire atmosphere of this video is so iconic to me. Everything about it just yells old CZcams now a days, and I love it.
This video was only a few years back...
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@@Maffoo just because a video is new doesn't mean it's can't be old youtube
Me too
2:47 "maybe this will provide more lift"
Rocket: bye
i read your comment before i saw the video and i DIED
Lol
😂 LOL
@@kvl3r 2
Andrew Reyes I started dying
2:51
I don’t think anyone was expecting that at all.....
IT'S A JAVELIN MISSILE
@@xdragclick2074 gonna take out the cope cages
2:51 Plane:Ight imma head out
Plane:i must go,my people need me
*flashes out of existence*
Hazem Nassar Clever joke
For those bigger rockets your issue was not predictability or lift but the pitching moment induced on the CG due to the fact that your thrust line isn't centered. For the smaller motors the horizontal stabilizer is able to counteract the pitch well enough but at the higher thrusts the force turning the aircraft's pitch was too great. This is why when the larger motors were on top the aircraft pitched down rapidly and why when they were below the aircraft pitched up and looped! I think you should give it another shot with the big motors (maybe not the homemade sugar bomb-- I mean motors) but put the motors closer to the center of gravity and they might do better, or maybe the thrust is just too great even without the pitching moment. Either way, there is a lot to learn and science to do for a video! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the insightful comment! Remember, I was still trying to use a camera, that makes balancing the plane a little bit trickier. As the Rockets burned they would lose mass altering the center of gravity. I totally agree about the angle of thrust though, but duct taped wasn't enough to perfectly aligned the engines, they had so much force they could stretch the table just a few degrees and that would cause erratic behavior of the plane :/
ps LOL about the sugar bombs! I made my motors based on the king of random's tutorial, maybe he was just trying to eliminate the competition ;)
TheBackyardScientist song ??
2:39 lv. 1 Crook
2:51 lv. 100 boss
Mafia city, play now
@@trollfacegaming1111 ur not funny
@@bordisbordboi3337 stfu
@i don’t know what to do here I dunno what to do here either
I remember this meme so well. 2 years was a short time ago... right?
3:47 this flight looked almost rc controlled
Model RC Shhhh din’t let them know shhhhhhh
4:22 I don't know why but this scene is very calming and is incredible, it's either the time of day, the music, or the orange exhaust. Or maybe all three.
You were aiming at the water! Of course it's going to go in the water!
Right?
I believe the plane setup should be flying in to circle, if without the rocket.....
This video is great
Nah that should increase the flight due to the thermals coming off the sea
Bish
2:51 that was freaking amazing. Best video i've ever seen
4:24 I can't see anything Kevin.
2:30 Me everytime I throws a paper plane
Lol
Hows that funny exactly?
PewDiePie's lost son lol
Everytime i try making a tutorial plane
@@sonofanarchy6254 because its a joke,c'mon
4:16 Stuka dive bombers over Dunkirk, 1940, colorized
Hello there, dooku
@The Xenomorphian should you say... V1 flying bombs?
didn't know that you had a beach in your backyard
Leeuwarden The whole point of the name "backyard scientist" is to show that you could do these in your backyard if you wanted.
He's rich lol
I thought that meant there was a scientist living in his backyard
There isn't. he just went there
Leeuwarden lol
2:36 it looks like the missile from cod
Yes
@@unbreakablediamond6982 hunter drone right?
The Hunter Killer or The Warthog
@@bounty123 wasnt warthog from halo
Pretty sure its tritney rocket
3:12 **Rare footage of North Korea's Space program**
This had me dying for a while.
Hahahahahaha lol
you hope .. they made the same mistake with japan
XD
4:39 that was one of the funniest things I have seen all day!
Yes lol
2:27 >>> Hunter Killer Drone Ready For Deployment
Is this call of duty mobile???
Cod mobile
Yep call of duty mobile thanks
Lol
Just slams to the ground
I can already see the headline- "Florida man decapitates beach goer with rocket-powered toy airplane"
“So I got a whole box of rocket engines...” 0:28
The coolest sentence ever
I want to see another one of these tbh
+Aj Kamaxim I have so much more footage from this
Maybe I'll make a directors cut.
What part of Florida do you live in? I would like to meet you, I live in Fort lauderdale.
yass
yes please do :D
4:10 rare footage of German Stuka dive bomber crashing after getting shot down (CIRCA 1944)
Im German and that Joke you made was funny ;)
They hit the Bomb bay
Lol
3:28 gets me every time. The "Where is it?" With it crashing in the background and Kevin's face just makes me laugh everytime
3:12 rare footage of the world’s first spaceship
???
@@zacharydeanworrell8599 cause it didnt work
And THey ExPlOdEd AlL oF ThEm
r/cursedcomments
That’s my favorite r/cursed comment
2:51 *Rare footage of Elon Musk trying to go to Mars*
I saw that
ILoveWindows95 w
ILoveWindows95 I
Nah rather Blue origin.
Tiket Underwater World
4:04 nuclear drop
Probably no one understanded why.
yup
North Korea
that’s North Korea’s tinfoil nuke
It failed
The plane just went
Plane: nope you guys suck *goes into a nose dive*
Pilots: NOOOOO DAM YOU PLANE!!!
Bomb: oh hey 👋 * explodes*
Alright I know this video came out like 3 years ago but can I just say the transition at 1:12 is perfect.
Ikr
Ikr
3 years is not much -__-
IKR by the way I’m 100th like owo
@@proxyhx2075 your brain isn’t much
1:04 The way that perfectly curves and lands in the grass though.
Very convenient indeed
2:51 it just was like *I'm gonna get some food bye*
R u my fbi agent
Oh Yeah Yeah
1:58 WHERE LANDING IN THE HUTSON
XD
We’re
John TeDesco Oh wow lmao. Let’s try and land at LaGuardia
It is Houston.
*we're *Hudson
1:11 Ryanair wants to know your location
So original
Lol
2:35 so that's the perspective of someone who suffers a plane accident ✈
Sebastian Ortiz that looks way specific
*737 max intensifies*
737 max
2:32 lol, it's a fucking hunter killer drone from BO2!
Swarm
just about to comment that. kill me this always happens.
yes it is
hunter killer incomming
OMG 😂😂😂😂
put remote control long distance propellers on it and maybe steel wool on the back
like if it must happen
It's a fuse...
+Richard Lane Then it's just a RC plane with rockets strapped on...
4:43
Him “dont ask, just go”
Her:
3:15 footage of the vanguard probe attempting to take off. Literally the space probe rose 3 feet off the ground and sank back down and exploded
2:36 Japanese kamikaze pilot fails to hit target (1943, colorized)
Lmaoo
Let me fix that: 2:36 american crazy crazy pilot fails to hit target (2016)
Lmao 😂
Lmaoo
I literally came down here to comment that
2:04
*this is going to dangerous we’re going to the park*
2:38
*plane crushes harder*
Getting* Too* Crashes*
"At least I'm not the only one with rocket problems
Everyone at NASA: I spent 5 years in college to be compared to a dude with a $2 Styrofoam plane
It's not a hate comment, it was meant as a joke
not a great joke but LOL
nasa = not always so awesome (joke)
kjk
3:47 wow that's a cool throw😍😍😍
0:47 sand = water
Grass = Island
It landed on the grass!
wut
What
???
I know what you mean the plane is a normal plane going to an island
Haha I get it
*Rare footage of V1 Rocket firing into London*
XD
DER ENGLISCH MAN HAD IT COMING*
Rare footage of the Me 163 (1944, colorised)
Yes do you play bf5 and on xbox
3:49
Duolingo Owl coming to your house after you miss a lesson.
Then it get shot out of the air
I missed like 34 lessons and me and my family are all alive.
Duolingo intercontinental ballistic missile
@@icbm1206 r u sure I think they r fake
@@thegaminglechonk9211 Yes they're fak- **gets sniped by Duolingo owl**
4:23 what my toilet sees after Taco Bell
Funny, best joke I’ve heard
Nice joke but disgusting
Lmaoo
for about 10 years i never ate fast food, then one day i bought a 12 pack of regular tacos, of course i ate them all at once bc they were soo "good." two days later i got the shits and it lasted for hours
Stolen comment
2:45 “puts rocket on front”
2:51 *lift*
Thegaminguy 1724 it just takes off like a rocket
you should have put one on each wing
they won't react at the same time
he could ignite them electronically
Milky Muscle or have his girlfriend light the second at the same time. Although electronically is more interesting.
Edit- Girlfriend* because apparently, it matters in this context.
are you sure its his sister?
its his girlfreind
even after 6 years this vid is still amazing, i miss the old youtube days, keep up the good work and great content!
we need a longer version of the planes flying, it's really satisfying for some reason
I laughed so hard at 2:51 it was just normal then flew straight up super fast
YOU WANT LIFT IMA GIVE YA LIFT
Random Plus
Looks like a Javelin rocket on mwr 😂
YEET
You probably figured this out already, but when the engines ejected from the housing, it threw off the center of gravity. You could fix this by using booster engines (no ejection charge). Also, as the engines get bigger, the tolerances get smaller, making it difficult to build good F and higher engines at home. I finally got some Gs to work after blowing many of them up, but I had to mix epoxy into the nozzles and end caps (clay alone wouldn't work--I don't have an arbor press) and experiment with half a dozen nozzle diameters (even a 64th of an inch can make a big difference).
Great comment. The center of gravity issue goes beyond the ejection charge. Half of my b and c engines were boosters. The Rockets also lose mass as they burn changing the center of gravity, and in the case of a D or E engine that could be a couple ounces lost. The sugar rockets I made were built to F class specs, and I totally agree that the clay nozzles have to be absolutely perfect or you can blow them out from overpressure (or sub par thrust). I thought about making epoxy end caps, but then the motor failure might be an actual explosion rather than just blowing out the end cap. I stuck with Clay nozzles because I don't have that much experience building rocket engines. I've had good success with sugar rockets in the past, but maybe I didn't hammer them enough, or there was something wrong with my mixture or clay, because literally all 12 Rockets failed.
Yeah, I blew up several engine casings in testing. Another problem is that as the PVC heats up under pressure, the epoxy end cap or nozzle can shoot out like a large, soft, but nonetheless destructive bullet. So you really have to scour some deep grooves into the PVC where it contacts the end cap, or find some other secure way of attaching it all together. I also found out the hard way that small differences in the moisture content of the rocket fuel effect the burn rate significantly. So if you build an engine using certain specs and let it sit for a couple of days, and it works fine, and then you build another using the same specs and launch it on the same day, it may blow out the end cap.
Thanks for the great video!
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Basement Lab Productions The.
the planes rocketing into the ground, and completely breaking.... is great XD
Petition To Make A Part Two Of This
4:10-4:20 Such a Ryanair landing.
Llama Disco Piggy agreed xd
stxxry But the problem is that have you ever sat on RyanAir?
wut
Rotfl.
more like 2:32
I have to say this is my own personal favorite video. It was just so much fun I was so happy when they worked!
TheBackyardScientist COOL!!!!
TheBackyardScientist 💯/100
TheBackyardScientist can you please do more of these
TheBackyardScientist true
keep up the great work! really loved this one.
This video never gets old
i LOVE how theres a gopro so you can see
More rockets!~
Rockets rock ;D
You guys are rock
Yeah it's rockets
MORE!!!!
rockets make everything better
2:33 When the pilot hates his life
Master 07 lmao
Master 07 I’m going on. A trip later hope. Y pilot doesn’t hate his life
Master 07 lol
Silk air 185
2:32 when a japanese pilots ammo runs out
KAMIKAZE BONZAI!
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ시밬
Lol
Colossal Zombie Platoon Leader I was about to reply kamikazeze
This video is so cozy with the atmosphere and the music, I would love to see another rocket plane video again :)
4:23 a way to lose a Go-Pro.
More like distroy
Destroy
I think I burnt the camera lense
rip
Oh you dont know until you own a gopro but those things are literally invincible. mine has fallen of a cliff and survived. Plus thats only really charr from the rocket getting sprayed onto the lens so only some temporary cosmetic damage.
if possible I would like to see this again but applying cut out trimmers for the plane correcting the flight trajectory and making it more predictable.
that's basically the concept behind rocket powered gliders. It's a proven concept, and a lot of people do that, but it's beyond the realm of most people. Too much upfront money and time . I just wanted to make something simple anybody can try.
was that girl your girlfriend
Actually rocket gliders can be very inexpensive. If you search around on ebay you can still find the Estes Eagle boost glider for a reasonable price, and it flies great (almost no assembly required). Estes is still selling the Tercel kits for less than $15, and Semroc sells a kit for the Hawk, which is another easy to build design that flies extremely well.
They're doing it for the heck of it, nerd.
+Bob Cota So it's nerdy to help people actually achieve their goal? Good to know. Sorry for being helpful.
I remember watching this video the week it came out, time passes by so fast.
This may be one of my favorite vids on CZcams and I have no idea why
this guy and demolitionranch should do a collab!
I FREAKIN WISH!!
TheBackyardScientist I mean you would stay in their sick apartment room and blow stuff up in the backyard... just a bigger backyard.
P
RJ Wilson
RJ Wilson no
3:12 North Korea tested another missile
Lol
True
Lol
LoL
D
Florida Man: “So i have a box of rocket engines...”
😐
3:30 like if you see a plane on a tree
2:31 Houston, we have a problem.
You should find the center of mass, lift and trust. This way the plane won't be unstable in flight
You're assuming those are even remotely constant on a styrofoam glider? This isn't KSP, it's not that simple
YEAH, try play some Kerbal Space Program, you'll get used to it
There is a reason real airplanes have control surfaces.
Centre of lift is 1/3 back from the leading edge of the wing. Centre of mass should be just in front of COL and thrust can be done by eye and common sense
Yeah this is more like backyard bored dude with too much time+money on his hands. Zero science (or engineering which would be more useful in this case). Kind of disappointing, I'm sure he could have gotten some good airtime with a little more research and planning.
3:40 * Insert guy dancing on tree while singing a banana song here*
2:51 mask company stonks
stick the rocket engine under the wings of the plane so that it is balanced
+Sandro Kapellen but then the camera
True.
Also I think it would go too far up, or too far down
But he would need a fair amount of fiuse
Why not cut out a hole in the tails section of the fuselage and have the camera towards the nose?
2:32 Jake Paul view decline [(2019) colorized]
Floridian Railfan lol
LOL XD
2019 is colorized
MY FAVOURITE!
are you so smart callen or is it opposite day
2:30 I can’t stop watching this.
Or this 4:39
2:38 self-destruct activated
You mean 3:53
At 3:29 you can see the plane come out of the trees.
Trico Turkey bacon is the only thing that would make it a lot of fun to use the term of office of a sudden urge to the point of of view is that the a team good luck to for to with the same time as I have to no avail the same time and I money the only first government and the its not that I good to me and that he was had a dream great good to be able to see the first half of and I have no to a I don't know think I can get it to right field goal
No shiD
Havish Dhanasekar Was was the way I can do this again and again this is my best app ever for a real game play and I have to get it started with it haha was a great day to get it to the next week or next year lol I don't think it is the same thing but it's just a good idea for you to the game you can get a good year and play with a little one and a little while playing it for the next week and a lot more than you play with the other one is the time
4:03 did anyone noticed something
Rocket fell off
i did
Rip rockect 2016-2016
Nuke fell
I did The rocket fell off
2:37 rare footage of kamikaze pilots vaporizing them selves colorized
We've gotta see 1 rocket under the plane and 1 above the plane so it doesn't just go straight up, oh and with rockets at the edges of both wings so the plane doesn't bank to a side
Imagine the speed of it falling down though one gust sends it to hell
1:09 Emergency engine failure requesting crash landing and being picked up by people please
"requesting crash landing"
requesting clearance for emergency landing.
Theofficialcraigsmith AHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHA
Mayday mayday mayday callsign .... Request emergency landing ASAP
@@theofficialcraigsmith23 ROFL
That was awsome its like it where to go 2:55
I like the moment, the lady's cheering "you can do it!" -- so true!
2:31 self destruct mode laughing out lol 😂
Try to install two rockets in both wings，it would be more stable.
+飞龙在天 hard to ignite both at the same time
make the fuse meet somewhere
use an electronic igniter. or better yet, make a cavity in the rear of the plane and insert the rocket there.
飞龙在天 I don't think that would work because rocket motors might burn the wings
but not the body?
3:00
"totally unpredictable"
Yeah... no. If the centre of thrust goes over the centre of mass, it faceplants. If it goes under the centre of mass, it starts doing loops. Drill a hole in the plane's ass and add an equal amount of torque in the opposite direction by placing a mass on the nose, and you're good to go.
You'd think that he would be able to figure this out himself. I was pretty disappointed seeing the opposite.
I agree with your statement but need to add that their are many more variables involved. I still agree with what your saying I just think it's a bit more complex then how you made it seem.
nick mundekis Eh, there's always more.
nick mundekis In such a simple model as this, CoT, CoM, and CoL are really the only variables worth considering unless this is for a competition or something and you need absolute peak performance.
Sean James
This video by far is my favourite. So thank you m8 to you and your partner for making this video
This is so relaxing. With the music and everything
4:15 perfect landing
2:28 That airplane wasn't the only thing that got thrusted by a d rocket that day.
Thinkin’ dirty I see.
Smooth as butta
😏😏😏😏
Straight in. Smooth brotha’.
Shut up.
Airplane: aboard Mayday Mayday!
Thebackyardscientist: There you go
what
Seeing this, is making me wanna go get one, and just fly one for hours XP
Cool video, but I have a few suggestions for a possible re-do.
1.) It looks like the engine mount on top of the plane is pointed at a downward angle with respect to the body line. This is why the planes tend to nose-dive as soon as the engine goes off. Vice versa for why it flew upward once you moved the mount from the top to the bottom.
2.) Your sugar engines seemed to be an incorrect mixture. There's no way they should have been that weak.
3.) Instead of throwing the planes, why not use the rocket launch stand at an angle? That would allow for a more consistent launch to compare to rather than adding a human element. This would also allow you to hook up the electronic ignitions rather than using those fuses. Additionally, you could even try mounting an engine under each wing and re-wiring the launch controller to ignite both simultaneously for an extra experiment.
This is the first video I've seen of yours and you've got a new sub! Pretty excited to see what else you've got!
For 1) It doesn't have to be mounted on a down/upward angle. Mounting in a way such that the thrust vector is not going through the center of mass is enough to make it nosedive or loop.
blizzy1978
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we're both saying the same thing here. I was pointing out that it was mounted on an angle when it shouldn't be, and should be mounted parallel to the body line (so it would thrust through the center of mass). Cheers!
blizzy1978 -
Since the thrust line is counter to the natural angle of attack of the wing the aircraft behaves initially nose heavy when the rocket fires. However, with increased speed the minor correctiveness of the fixed elevator becomes more influential on the aircraft attitude and thus counters the down thrust.
Balance
i wish you wouldve done one with a rocket on the top and bottom to balance it out
never get them to light at the same time. what he needs to do is attach "fins" to the rocket engine. balance the glider without the engine for proper glide. now adding the rocket motor will make it nose heavy (a good thing actually) also add some "wings" to the rocket motor to try and force the glider to pull up to counter the rocket engine trying to force the nose down.
once it burns out the ejection charge will kick the motor free BOTH restoring proper glide CG (balance) AND removing the added up force of the add on fins. with a little trial and error you should be able to get it to work.
also quest has some D2 motors. really "weak" but long burn d engines. idea for gliders. you probably won't even need to add up force fins with that little thrust.
even if they didn't ignite at the exact same time itd still be more balanced
+JD Felder maybe weight wise balanced but you would have asymmetric thrust. when which ever one fired first changed the attitude of the glider the second one to fire would either compound the attitude change or violently oppose it and prolly cause a catastrophic departure of control,or structural integrity.
+squach623 !!!!! i didnt mean weight wise balanced.. i meant thrust and i still think it'd work much better
2:32 Ganondorf's meteor
“We’re not aiming for the truck”
I got chills after seeing the first rocket sent the plane flying for a longer time. And I’m a huge space fan and I love rocket science so that would make sense.
Such a peaceful video
Delta 657 hi delta
That’s what I was thinking
First flight was gud
4:21 legit looks like an interstellar scene, Such as reentry!
Thank you for the video. We enjoyed watching your rockets. You should make a sequel.