You can secure the angle aluminum to the air frame tube with rubber bands to keep it tightly in position to act as a cutting guide while you score the tube for the fin slots with your blade.

i don't get it. shouldn't it blow off after you turn the vacuum off?

Hope all is well havent seen a new video in some time now

any updates?

I've seen you fly it at several club launches, and it flies beautifully! Great job!

Nicely done, Ryan!

you forgot to wipe off the oil from the balls :)

Hi Ryan. You have some of the best amateur launch videos I’ve seen, it’s not easy keeping a rocket in center of frame. Your build videos are great too, and the build quality shows on your particular rockets as well… straight up and intact! BTW, do you have any basic camera recommendations? I want to record my flights with more than just an iPhone, whose screen I can’t see in the Florida sunshine anyway… kinda point and hope it’s somewhere in the field of view.

Mine was the (Levi's rocket) that went past the star orbiter on accident. It was actually kind of cool!

Quit huffing the rocket!

I find myself using BP motors less and less; except for 2 stage rockets.

This was so lame. It bummed me out. I do not recommend.

I have been online with models about a year now do not know how I have missed your site, I am looking and learning how too ! you have got me wanting to use your set up on the Level Two set up. I am thinking a 3" Rocket for that hope it will work well.. Thank you for your info...

How much black powder do you use for the main charge in the nosecone?

Looking forward to the next video. This is the plane that I thought, 15 years ago, would be my first plane… but it might end up being my 3rd.

Did you use the stock Estes body tube? Did you fiberglass over the body tube. Did you have to reinforce the Nose cone? Thank You

Hey! Great flight. Do you by chance have a final weight on the little Punisher?

How did you attach the metal tip?

Cool video..

High-Power???

Hey, can you tell a little about the specs of the rocket

Well done!

Awesome, I'd so love to see an event like this in person some day!

What a fun looking hobby! And so close to where I live! Looks expensive though...

Hey thanks for this video. I tried adjusting the guide screw under that plastic and like you I wasn’t able to get the right result. I also spent an hour trying various power settings, and I also looked closely at the shooter fork to make sure it was moving smoothly and making even contact with the ball. Nothing helped. I’m definitely trying your solution next and I am sure it’ll work. Thank you again!

Fun times. Excellent videography.

Have you gotten any further along on the Tiger Moth?

He's headed back into the toolbox! 🐍

Buddy & I launched a homemade rocket, with a mustard container cap as nosecone, back in the 70’s. Had ridden our bikes to a local park, but forgot the launchpad guide rod. Laid the rocket on it’s side and lit the fuse, figuring the rocket would scoot along the parking lot and crash into the curb on the other side. Darn thing was about 5 ft off the ground when it cleared that curb… flew out of the park, across a street and that hard plastic nosecone embedded into the aluminum siding of a house. Few seconds later, ejection charge goes off. Smoking rocket stuck into the side of a house. We did what any 16-yr old would do… yelled “oh shit”, hopped on our bikes, and scrammed! 🤣

You have to POWDER your chute and PACK right before launch. that plastic chute sticks together

My boys were so excited just now to see their rockets "on TV!" @ 9:21. Thanks Ryan!

Thanks for sharing. Looked like a good time.

Why does the rocket have to break apart into three pieces? Can’t you just pop the nose cone and deploy the main?

Uhh, what happened to the Tiger Moth???

The saddest one i witnessed was in about 1989, in an elective high school rocketry class... My friend built the large Estes 1380 Phoenix model; he put so much work into it and it turned out beautiful... But on class launch day, when it was time for it to make its maiden flight, it suffered a catastrophic engine failure when the presumably defective Estes D engine exploded instead of properly igniting. I think it only made it partway up the launch rail when the motor blew up, completely shredding half of the lower section of the rocket (it blew the whole side out).

Forgot about the mini Honest John should have picked up one to go with my full size one. It now sits on a shelf, and needs minor repairs since last flown in 1976.

the whole lawn dart thing hits real close to me. Last summer, I built this rocket glider based off some plans I found on the internet. Ironically I called it lawn dart, and on it's first flight it did just that

One of my earliest memories was in 1959 or 1960 where my father flew the family from Ellsworth AFB to T.E. Green Airport in Providence, R.I. We fell out of the skies in a downdraft that the anemic Franklin engine couldn't compensate for. We were evidently close to a rural airstrip and landed in ground effect at a small rural airport in the mountains of Pennsylvania, allowing me to eventually into the senior citizen I am today.

😍👍👍👍

When do you show connecting the shock cord and parachute protector? Looking for the best way to do that since the engine mount has already been glued in. If you don’t have that on this video, do you have it on another?

Love the classics. 🎉

When you said you got the fin guide from payload bay. It appeared to be think but I can't find it. Is there a place to purchase one? I'm starting my build on this rocket. Thanks!

I like how you show the motor for each flight. I’m sure it’s a bit of work to do that, but it adds a lot to your videos. 😊

Mine is opposite and hits the left upper flipper tip. I definitely need to get it corrected. It’s killing the rubber

Great contest. If only we had such a nice launch site in SoCal.

Have you considered more build videos and such? Your video on building the Drago 4XL was awesome. Especially breaking them up into usable chunks so one can focus on an Avionics Bay build or Booster Build. Any more of these types of videos coming?

Adjust the power of your auto plunger setting.Goto adj>game>feature adjustment #78

Thanks! Mine has been doing the same since some time now. Gonna try the fix this week! Cheers

11:20 hey that's my rocket! love your videos!!

Lots of nice launches.