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[@robertzeurunkl8401]

3000+ feet? That's incredible! Well done, sugar rocket. No wonder my kids are bouncing around the room after drinking a lot of soda.

[@football-talk3602]

ahhahaha

[@dheeraj2947]

😆😆😆 They need Oxidizer too.

[@deei5130]

ok boomer

[@robertzeurunkl8401]

@@deei5130 Is that supposed to mean something?

[@mountainwobbles3568]

@@robertzeurunkl8401 It means hes a 25 year old single man who still lives with his parents, desperately clinging to his youth. I game online a lot, ive never met anyone who uses that term either A) appropriately or B) Without being a toxic d**khead

[@zaquedavis3391]

Just hit 4:53 I already vote sugar due to the way that dude looks. He knows rockets.

[@generalmax4252]

I give credit for both the sugar rocket and the pvc rocket. Great job guys!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aNOMaly_..]

*That guy from the sugar rocket team is crazy, I like that!*

[@ThePOSM]

This is whaat ive been lookin for lol, love the PVC concept, i didnt even think thatd be so effective !

[@thevampz8353]

This was AMAZING I really enjoyed this. I like how this vid got straight to the point and it was cool keep it going people.

[@Galaxius2117]

2:33 When NASA fails a rocket.

[@carl-ok9gn]

i absolutely love how this group of Americans with all the stereotypes of accents, remarks, looks etc fully in tact are doing something so amazing and the brits are watching it.

[@matija01]

Wtf are you talking about lol, is there any context?

[@robertdraxel7175]

-Did you get it from the hardware store? - No Sir, it's a little bit more complicated than that, BUT IT'S BASICALLY PVC PIPE :)))))

[@Cardboard_Man]

That got me as well, like he got it from NASA.

[@inwg8156]

Well, yes, but actually, no 😂😂

[@Beemer917]

Jimmy's kinda... different? Indeed!

[@woolfy02]

That was awesome. I miss the days of building rockets similar to this.

[@spencertapp9183]

You didn’t give any credit to the video by NightHawk during the acrylic video

[@zapfanzapfan]

"Sugar rush" is a really good name for a rocket candy driven rocket :-)

[@AngeliqueKaga]

Absolutely awesome!

[@Rocketpax]

Silly comparison. 38mm 4grain sugar motor, likely full "I" class(somewhere around 600Ns), vs a 29mm hybrid which likely came in at a "G" or "H" class(somewhere around 160-300Ns). They didn't really configure the competition to be highest altitude per motor volume, or propellant mass, or anything. They didn't use the same size rocket either. The Sugar motor was just plain bigger, and naturally if you compare a bigger motor and a smaller one, the bigger one will go higher.

[@MeepMu]

Hey, please credit nighthawkinlight for his video which you used at 1:15

[@asasnat342]

no they have the right to use any footage they want if they are lazy

[@infinitepower6780]

@@asasnat342 Not legally speaking.

[@uraninite8151]

I'm sure they asked for permission

[@itsjustme4026]

I like how the pvc rocket was tested first then the Sugar one that just blew everyone

[@daveslow84]

The sugar rocketeer is wonderfully flamboyant! Sweet guy! 😀

[@theone8308]

Or flamgirlant .😀

[@joesitter20101]

An enjoyable video. Thank you.

[@barbecuesquirrel2324]

“Thousand 15 hundred feet”🤣

[@letropchiant]

Both are really cool!

[@williamgottlieb8723]

5:59 Me on the can, a few hours after eating White Castles.

[@MadhukarSethi]

Superb... The power of Sugar

[@mojaverockets]

I agree not to mention so much easier to use than a nitrous hybrid.

[@velazquezarmouries]

Madhukar Sethi sugar rush of a rocket

[@lukedemaiter4496]

Indeed

[@martinscaune4165]

The sparks in sugar rocket is from added in Iron (III) oxide for better combustion. This can make the fuel 20% more energetic, by increasing the burn rate.

[@Frisso92_]

Hi, I'm doing research about rocket propellants and the use of iron oxide for better combustion is really interesting. Can you elaborate on how does it work? I thought that it was a little like the sulfur in gunpowder, but I'm really not sure And especially, in what proportion is better for the combustion?

[@inverse2k1]

the iron oxide is well known in the field to be a catalyst in sugar based propellants, it increases the burn rate by quite a bit. The 'why' it works requires an explanation way behind the scope of this place, in very short, it lowers the reaction activation energy. @@Frisso92_

[@TrueStrongNorth]

3:49 they made that veteran cover up what he was a veteran of...

[@matthewsequoyah2665]

Dextrose Jimmy aka “Sugar” is the winner ! ! 😆😆😆

[@gametrench1255]

they used nighthawkinlight's video!

[@SGprooo]

GameTrench what's that

[@myname-pe2pe]

+SG pro another KZbinr

[@sohamadhikari2550]

i was just going to say that!

[@dlam2864]

i know right

[@MrBartleby451]

That's very dodgy - not even to acknowledge thats he using another KZbinrs video. Very poor.

[@philkennedy342]

I love rocketeers there all mental great stuff 👍👍👍

[@dooleyfussle8634]

I tried to make one of these back in my grade school days using sugar and saltpetre as fuel in a tube made from aluminium foil wrapped around a pencil with cardboard fins. Big whoosh when ignited but failed to leave the ground because it blew out the nozzle I had fashioned in the Al. foil.

[@returnerreturner]

it looks so luxurious wow... I've just tried to make water rocket : )

[@returnerreturner]

@Alexander Chohan why are you so nervous? i was just trying to compliment them zzzz poor thing..

[@clintonhalunajan467]

Explosively Sweet!!!

[@ygyeh]

nice job

[@committedcoder3352]

Don't show this to North Korea, it will set them forward at least a year.

[@MB-to2wi]

They're too busy hacking South Korean crypto exchanges and making bulk $$$ for their god.

[@1takeroddy]

XxNexusxX a century

[@ralsei6279]

XxNexusxX lmao

[@userGGG702]

ww III, artificial sugar could save your life

[@football-talk3602]

haha

[@coriscotupi]

Back in the 60s, the kids down the street were making rockets using sugar + potassium nitrate as a propellent. All went well until one of the kids had a few fingers torn off when the rocket motor exploded on him, as he prepared to launch. I was still too young at the time to mess with any of that, but just a few years later I briefly experimented with rockets (but I used commercially available rocket motors). Then I moved on to RC airplanes, gliders and helicopters.

[@WNActivist88]

People had to learn that you cannot be next to it when it ignites, which is why we use electronic ignition systems now

[@coriscotupi]

@@WNActivist88 Oh yes, back when I played with rockets (1975) I also used electric ignition, keeping a safe distance away from the rocket. The commercially available motors came with igniters.

[@inverse2k1]

Kids. That is the main problem, although it's fun and a good learning experience, kids should benefit from the assistance of someone with actual experience in the field.

[@bradhilton2283]

Wow ,one I never knew Angela landsberry was into model rocketry and two this would be a good place too start for ion propulsion rockets .

[@ziongite]

This is what Hamas use in their Qassam rockets BTW, a sugar plus potassium nitrate mix. You can use fertiliser to get the potassium nitrate, which is probably where they get it. Once you pack enough in there, they are able to get their homemade rockets to go up to 30km in distance, which is pretty impressive, it also carries a 10kg explosive head.

[@piyush9555]

Now I see this, I wanna build it myself

[@friedrichbahk5675]

Does pbc act as a nozzle? How can I prevent the heat from ignition is moving to the fuel tank?

[@ruthmoreton6975]

Sweet!

[@briancavanagh7048]

Was the weight of the propellant the same for both fuel types?

[@GRHmedia]

First, thing I noticed was the difference in size of engines. Sugar was a lot larger.

[@tommyzhao6600]

1:25 thats nighthawk in light

[@PapiDoesIt]

That was a sweet flight, James Yawn!

[@safetydave720]

Wow!

[@bktvlogs1996]

Thanks sir 😊

[@obeyconformtoday829]

Sweet and low works crazy good

[@tompere96]

Indeed

[@smudgepost]

Really interested in the hybrid mix ratios, would like to know if there are books or forums on this specifically?

[@inverse2k1]

hybrids are NOT mixed.

[@Octopussyist]

This IS rocket science!

[@jaakkooksa5374]

When I was a kid (I am fifty-one now) I used to make smoke bombs out of potassium nitrate and sugar. I do not remember the mixing ratio but a kilo of the stuff in an open container created a hell of a lot of smoke.

[@vic8717]

www.nakka-rocketry.net/smoke.html

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

65% KNO3 to 35% sugar. You can add in 1-2% iron oxide for a faster burn too, it creates a much denser smoke.

[@jamieanderson6786]

The hybrid with PVC lost a whole lot of Nitrous Oxide venting outside of the motor when fill tube stayed attached all the way up the tower. U/C valves are terrible for this, especially in such small motor.

[@rock3tcatU233]

When your rocket competition looks like the dude in pink, you know you've already lost before it even started.

[@strykeback24]

Awesome

[@gzuzsavz]

it's be cool to have a blk powder motor powered rocket as a control, but these both are quite impressive!

[@anthonyfernandes8683]

i love it

[@Samvip00]

Holy crap. I go to that rocket club. It’s called NEFAR rocketry.

[@ianbuilder]

night hawk in light

[@omkhandke8949]

sick

[@campbellparminter158]

Whaaaat? I have been in the plastics industry for longer than a decade and I've always known PVC as a self extinguishing material. That got me Stuffed.

[@orangebluberry9647]

*indeed*

[@Alexagrigorieff]

"Sugar is a great fuel because it has so much Hydrogen in it". Nope. There is a reason they're called Carbohydrates. For every two atoms of Hydrogen in a carbohydrate molecule, there is an atom of Oxygen. The Hydrogen already wasted its energy. The only energy left to burn is from Carbon. This is also why alcohol is not as good fuel as gasoline.

[@hunterwheeler5510]

They’re not saying it’s better than other fuels, but for being sugar, a common household item that isn’t dangerous then it’s a good fuel

[@alonewalker7480]

Ture

[@seanhartman6496]

True. And sugar is also a very unstable molecule with a low burning temperature and lots of carbon so if you likened this sugar/potassium nitrate fuel to the more common black powder rocket motors, the sugar takes the place of both the carbon and sulphur in a common black powder mixture.

[@thespacecowboy420]

How about Pentane and Phosphotungstic acid for a fuel and oxidizer?

[@ChuckBeefOG]

You can make more power on alcohol than on gasoline in a blown big block V8

[@muhittinselcukgoksu1327]

çok güzel. very well.

[@jdjds1]

Pretty cool. We should of done this in science

[@brownsamurai3070]

Yay for sugar! That's sweet.

[@davidlalramsanpulamte3925]

Sugar is sweeter, hence will go higher? Very good answer.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@peterhilhorst8826]

What a nice thing

[@kevinspaceprogressrocketry5590]

Yeah

[@abdelazizghouili7350]

انت رهيب

[@Diegot9]

Nasa: Hold My Beer

[@smallenginemst3450]

Jimmy James Yawn a true R-candy legend. His website is amazing!! Tought me everything I know. Safety number 1!!

[@Riskybiscuitstrading]

Indeed.

[@aamd4907]

WOW

[@gabriellogdonio9161]

Nice

[@njlauren]

We used to caramelize sugar and mix on saltpeter ( potassium nitrate), it made on hell of a smoke bomb but also would have made great rocket fuel. It isn't the hydrogen it is the hydrocarbon burning in the presence of the oxidizer.

[@stux2421]

Super

[@youshaarif4253]

Wow

[@ebenlaltaika1260]

That's so cool he just made a rocket fueled by pvc !

[@muhammadhassanmuhammadrafi1766]

Good

[@omkhandke8949]

@discovery you shoud make a mini one

[@aas-dc4ly]

Sweet.

[@crazymemeheros2755]

3:20 the smoke is going round and round on the flame

[@ronfullerton3162]

I believe that was the nitrous oxide fueling line.

[@hajunyoon6336]

Cool

[@register1430]

so is the PVC tube a one time use?

[@billzjr222]

Regular sugar and potassium nitrate can also make a very powerful thrust.

[@onisim6844]

It's a verry good rocket!

[@Lux158]

Did you ask #NightHawkInLight to use his video? 1:13 to 1:30

[@JetStream_RPL]

nice

[@erykbing3587]

In the hybrid rocket, Solid Parafine fuel would have a bit more of a kick

[@prithvibansal0709]

I need the process and parts of rocket you have used. I also wanna to make a rocket and launch it.

[@kiethomastephen2206]

Go to the king of random KZbin channel.

[@Razor-gx2dq]

Oxidizer is kno3

[@alextalkov8304]

Don't make mistake with sugar and dicstroze! C6H12O6 is glucose. Sugar is C12H22O11.Pirochemical.

[@wolflahti412]

Monosaccharides (dextrose, glucose, fructose, galactose) are C6H12O6, disaccharides (sucrose, maltose, lactose) are C12H22O11. All are "sugar".

[@ianjulius5185]

theyre both sugar

[@dcs002]

Dextrose = glucose. Just a different name.

[@OlaNordmann123]

Dextrose is glucose monohydrate. Basically glucose + water.

[@AndrewAgastusL]

Glucose and dextrose have same molecular formula but they differ in 3d arrangements

[@majkidpstwest]

funny how they covered their caps :P

[@tonymcwhirter]

what was the ratio used for fuel ?

[@dennisjacob1081]

Is there a rocket club in banting ??

[@michaeldilger9582]

What if your KNO3 and sugar rocket is in a PVC tube?!

[@kalleklp7291]

You will essentially get a boosted rocket motor using solid fuel.Another take on it is to use PVC granulate mixed in with the sugar and the KNO3, which works quite well too. A little rocket I made once ended flight at 556 m..

[@diogoppereira]

But what kind of pvc do they use?

[@Mrcatpants56]

Nasa wants to know your location

[@michaelgeorge4780]

No need to yell

[@dannydetonator]

@Light Maestro You never use plastic containment for a burning chamber, loco o que?

[@jeffmullinix7916]

After watching this . I do believe that I will pick the sugar rocket to go the highest .

[@TheBrendonKasa]

From: Spoon Car You didn’t give any credit to the video by NightHawk during the acrylic video

[@zahir2023]

very impressive rockets gone in the sky

[@SUPERSONICCULEBRA]

... indeed...

[@billybobjohn8955]

Sweet ;-)