This is it! Big Bertha takes a flight along with a few other rockets. Buy an Estes rocket here: estesrockets.pxf.io/kj93mN
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@geraldscott43022 жыл бұрын
Been building and flying model rockets since 1972. I have never tested a model built from a kit. I always assumed the manufacturer of the kit did, and if it was properly built, it was already properly balanced and ready to fly. I now design and build my own rockets. I always put talcum powder on the parachute before putting it in the rocket, to prevent the plastic from sticking to itself.
@Patrician90002 жыл бұрын
HOLY CRAP, Didn't know you do rockets too! Awesome! Me too bro!
@nickjarman27832 жыл бұрын
Used to fly those back in the day. i had Big Bertha, sidewinders, and others. The Sidewinders were awesome doing their rotations as they ascended ! I still have a four place launch pad and firing box I built.
@Fezzler612 жыл бұрын
How high did Big Bertha go? When I was a boy, we would balance by hanging the rocket by a string at its COG and point into fan/blower of a wind air conditioner. But I thought we were testing if the fins where straight. This was 50 years ago.
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
About 800 feet.
@XindiS Жыл бұрын
We followed the part 1 and part 2 to build, but now we stacked to put the engine in because the medal hook in the engine mount block it
@tdumnxy2 жыл бұрын
Great - the Right Stuff. Really enjoyed this series of videos. 👍
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Planning on more rocket videos in the new year.
@glennmcclellan88532 жыл бұрын
Good job Doc Brown. We now know how craters are made on the moon.
@stemmentor9700 Жыл бұрын
🤣
@xyzconceptsYT2 жыл бұрын
Great fun to watch this adventure. Tinkering and learning about building my own rocket motors here Downunder. Fun little hobby I must say. 😉
@rexreynolds20756 ай бұрын
B Bertha can be built as a payload rocket. A 3.5 oz payload to roughly 1300' on a d12-5. For better results use a 15" chute.🙂
@brandonbentley54535 ай бұрын
I had a Big Bertha style rocket that had the clear payload tube section. It wasn't the Big Bertha, but the same design and size...little longer. Silly story, the kit came with an illustration of a child putting their pet Gerbal in. It read, "Turn your pet into a cosmonaut". I kid you not. So I put in some Gypsy moths from a nearby tree as a kid. They came back as green goo in the bottom of the payload tube. 😢
@petezereeeah5 ай бұрын
As a kid I had a two stage rocket. It was Estes, but I don't remember the rocket name. Anyway, I launched and it went sideways. It angled towards the ground when the second stage fired directly over a rural rd. Well, the rocket was obliterated. Stuff of life. And I always cut holes in my chutes. Used streamers sometimes.
@rodofiron59577 ай бұрын
Outstanding! I built one of these. CP! CG! Love it
@HackaweekTV7 ай бұрын
Right on!
@ercost602 жыл бұрын
Looking good, Dino. Keep on hackin'!
@rhinomechanics84232 жыл бұрын
Great fun, Looking forward to the Next video.
@sarathai28762 жыл бұрын
I think the last one needs a couple of those Mars rafter engines
@paint572 жыл бұрын
Very nice explanation of the CG/CP as related to stability. The Big Bertha is a great park flyer. The Proto is a nice looking rocket also. The X-15 seems like a tough one to fly correctly, you've done a very nice job 3d printing it. Did you make the decals on this one? Very nice job! Look forward to seeing to future rocket builds.🚀
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Yes I found a decal sheet image in Google then printed them out on some adhesive vinyl. Very pleased with the final result. I may try launching it again with a bit more nose weight and a higher thrust "A" engine.
@IchibanMoto2 жыл бұрын
professor dino, have you made a diy rocket engine ?
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Nope. Might try sugar rockets one day though. Could be BADASS!
@keithkrause3386 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't the x-15 nose heavy? More weight in the back?
@salvatore6539 Жыл бұрын
Fun videos looks like a good time 👍
@albert_vds2 жыл бұрын
X-15 is more of a glider so maybe an angled launch would be better. That might not be allowed? Or the rocket motor is too powerful?
@XindiS Жыл бұрын
Why I don’t see the engine mount with the medal hook when you insert the engine into the body tube?
@BillKurn11 ай бұрын
The engine mount simply works as a spring that bends out of the way and then snaps back when the engine is inserted.
@Davidjb377212 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your help
@4seasons4handlbars2 жыл бұрын
QUESTION! I just found your CB750videos, awesome!! The Hondabond you use- is it the high heat HT stuff or regular blue-and-white label stuff?
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Blue white as I recall.
@davidtappe53372 жыл бұрын
Hi Dino, thank you.
@4seasons4handlbars2 жыл бұрын
Any chance you still have your CB 750 carbs? I need a carb body for my 1973 Cb750.
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Nope
@TheJimyyy4 ай бұрын
How the parachute deploy itself ?
@HackaweekTV4 ай бұрын
At the end of the thrust burn there is a small explosive charge that ignites. When this happens it produces hot expanding gasses that propel the fire proof tissue, nose cone and parachute away from the rocket tube.
@ATS-9372 жыл бұрын
It's been a while since you had a motorcycle project. Are you gonna anytime soon?
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
No
@ATS-9372 жыл бұрын
@@HackaweekTV Don't be like that! Do it! Pretty please?
@lamarhardy57692 жыл бұрын
Too funny my 92 GMC van is named Big Bertha.
@lamarhardy57692 жыл бұрын
I’m thinking the stars may have lined themselves in our paths? Nah we just have a few things in common. Now if you have a BigRed or a Frankincense I’m gonna let you see who they are, I probably will anyways but any hoo, I have an 05 Ducati 999 I named Dukie and Frankenstein is my BMW so yeah creepy!
@lamarhardy57692 жыл бұрын
The Maine reason for my reaching out to you is dukie,that I kind of named in tribute to my ‘16KTM 1290 Superduke R and m Puppy is also named Dookie after th both vehicles but mostly because of the proximity devices that he drops wherever he is feeling an urge to play a sick joke on his Dad {me}. My boy!
@lamarhardy57692 жыл бұрын
Okay well Dukie was stolen and brought back two days later by a “trusted” friend, with the Ignition punched out and the steering dampener cut away and?
@lamarhardy57692 жыл бұрын
I also had a ‘78 Honda Elsinore when I was a young lad. I’d like to keep commenting but there’s got to be an easier way? You let me know if you have a mind to, I am on West coast time so don’t call after midnight or before noon as I am either stripping or making my rounds as we’re all vampires out here,thought we weren’t? Hope to hear something from you, don’t worry you won’t get any of this weirdness on you, however it my rub off on you?
@sarathai28762 жыл бұрын
Hey Dean anything new going on with you. Any new builds? I just finished up building an intergalactic supercomputer with blue LEDs. Of course it's just the movie prop. Just wondering what you're up to
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Been busy getting ready to move to Asheville NC. Packing up the workshop has been challenging.
@sarathai28762 жыл бұрын
@@HackaweekTV wow! How exciting for you. I remember way back in one of your videos you mentioned something about moving. Hope you bought a place with a big garage. I had to Google Asheville North Carolina. And from looking around at (street view ) from Google maps it looks like the kind of place I would like to live. I live in Central Florida on the East Coast. I can watch rockets go up from Cape Canaveral from my backyard all nice and all . But the Summers get a little too hot for me. I envy you, good luck with your move. Maybe you can do a video on your move. *Sarah*
@mguerramd2 жыл бұрын
Can you please show your tripod launcher setup?
@mguerramd2 жыл бұрын
Looks like a block of wood attached to a tripod plate, drilled out for the launch rod, and a deflector dropped on down. Quite simple. Is that it ?
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@mguerramd2 жыл бұрын
@@HackaweekTV Ok here’s a vid to show other folks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6PQn2Bqq6yUa6M
@samansanjeewa43402 жыл бұрын
long range gold detector circuit diagram
@mplsmark2225 ай бұрын
I had an Estes SR71 model, looked great but didn’t fly very well. Lesson learned, aircraft do not a rocket make.
@HackaweekTV4 ай бұрын
Nope.
@ohmslaw68562 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@sarathai28762 жыл бұрын
Hey Dean what's up, how's the new homestead ? I bet you're loving your electric car nowadays. Must be nice laughing at the gas station when you drive by.
@HackaweekTV2 жыл бұрын
Hey Sara. Actually sold the EV for what I paid for it. I miss it at times. Put the car payment into monthly rent cost. We love Asheville though. :) More videos soon. Still settling in.
@sarathai28762 жыл бұрын
@@HackaweekTV sorry to hear you sold the EV. Here in Florida I'm paying $4.60 a gallon for my fossil burner. I would like to visit West Virginia this year but I think it would break the bank. We'll see. I look forward to new videos, don't be a stranger keep in touch. Sarah
@TinyHouseHomestead2 жыл бұрын
Estes has a great X-15, but check out this channel - burkefj ! 😁👍✌