Videos

This is an edited version of a video I posted a while back of the Estes Big Bertha. I shot this video with an Insta360 Go 2 action camera attached to my hat, and wanted to see if I could get stable video with the entire flight just by watching…

National Association of Rocketry club launch - CMASS, in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The first launch of the season was short. I didn't even launch anything myself, but I did get a few good shots of rockets lifting off. Here we see 1) an Estes Mega Der Red Max flying on an…

On June 11, 2008, a Delta II rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying with it a gamma ray space telescope. The scope was called GLAST - the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope. It has since been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, or FGST for short. Its main…

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off for the International Space Station early morning February 8, 2010, bringing the cupola to the ISS. This was the final night launch of the Space Shuttle program, and the second to last mission for Endeavour. #shorts #spaceshuttle #iss

If you're new to model rocketry, and need to know where to buy model rockets, this video is for you. Many people start searching for products they're looking for on Amazon, and there are model rockets to be found there. But there are a lot of good model rocket suppliers…

Spinning Flying Saucer model rocket in slow motion, filmed in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 2016. Not a UFO, this gorgeous scratch built model flew on 6 Estes model rocket D11-P engines. It continues spinning creating lift until it settles down for a gentle landing. You can just see that it's equipped…

Some of my camp students launching the rockets they built. Model rocketry is a fun, safe STEM hobby practiced by adults and children worldwide. The models depicted include the Avion by Apogee Components as well as the Alpha III by Estes. I'm experimenting with uploading YouTube Shorts. If people like…

Glazing and Spot Putty can fix a lot of flaws in a model rocket. From balsa wood grain in fins, to seams in plastic parts, to spiral grooves in the body tube, putty has a lot of uses. The most commonly used Glazing and Spot Putty is by Bondo, Number…

I strapped the Insta360 Go 2 action camera to my head and launched the Big Bertha model rocket, to see if I could get good launch footage with my head. It's a very wide angle camera, and I only got one good test launch in, but I can see some…

I got the new Insta360 Go 2 action cam. A lot of photography and filmmaking YouTubers I follow got these recently, and they look like they have some exciting possibilities. I'm wondering how I can incorporate it into my rocketry YouTube channel. I've played around with it a bit, shooting…

Just a quick launch of the SA-14 Archer mid power model rocket on an Estes F26-6 motor.

Airframe mounted camera POV of an Estes Partizon model rocket flying on a G40-7 motor, November 21, 2020

Magnificent, closeup, slow motion launch views of Apollo 8, Apollo 11, and Apollo 12

eRockets.biz gave away a new Sabre Parasite Glider kit from Semroc at NARCON 2019. It's an easy, fun build and can be flown on most model rockets without modifying the way they're built.

I used the PVC tubing from my indoor spray paint booth to build a simple, downward-facing camera rig for making videos. There are tons of tutorials on YouTube on how to build these, so this isn't a how-to. Look around and you'll get some ideas, if you want to make…

Scott Binder of SBR sent me a Diablo high power rocket kit so I could check it out. This 4 inch diameter rocket is short and fat, great for smaller high power fields, and with its 38mm motor mount, it can fly on anything from an F or G motor…

To read more detail about what I'm up to in this video, check out my blog post "Messing Around With Glue - Strength, Flexibility, Et Cetera." The post can be found here: http://rocketn00b.blogspot.com/2018/05/messing-around-with-glue-strength.html

Joe Barnard sent me Signal Alpha, the first generation of the Signal Avionics thrust vectoring kit! Barnard Propulsion Systems: https://bps.space/ Joe's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXIe2svjHhg Assembly video, Part 1: https://youtu.be/6Y8QiqOZZ3g Part 2: https://youtu.be/LcszVaBPc0I Part 3: https://youtu.be/iSJoDuZdcOU Part 4: https://youtu.be/0ykvmCi_UXs

A slow motion illustration of a gap staged model rocket's failure to ignite the upper stage. This can happen if the booster motor pressurizes the booster body tube when the motor's propellant burns through. There is a fraction of a second delay between the burnthrough of the lower stage motor…

Making a balsa bulkhead for the payload section on the Quest Superbird model rocket. The coupler/bulkhead from the kit wasn't great, so I made my own.

A very short clip, shot by Joe Barnard, from my upcoming, end-of-the-year slow motion launch compilation. Joe Barnard's rocketry website is Barnard Propulsion Systems, and can be found here: http://www.bps.space/

Cutting a tube coupler and centering ring shims, then gluing the shims onto the centering rings. The website for North Coast Rocketry, who makes a Kuhn Tube Cutter kit: http://northcoastrocketry.com/ The Kuhn Tube Cutter can be purchased either here: https://www.apogeerockets.com/Building_Supplies/Tools/Kuhn_Tube_Cutter Or here: http://www.erockets.biz/north-coast-rocketry-accessory-kuhn-tube-cutter-kit-800/ The BT-55 tube and the brown tube…

I figured out how to fix the centering ring problem on the Superbird model rocket, and realized I could easily convert it to a D-powered vehicle.

The centering rings for the Quest Superbird were way too small! Instead of 35mm rings, my kit included 30mm rings.