High Power Rocketry Fail Compilation | 2021 Edition

You all loved the fails video I posted in 2020, so much so it got over one million views! In honor, here are the fails I captured throughout 2021! Let's make 2022 even better!
Unfortunately, it isn't car, bike, skateboard etc fails, dash cam fails, or oddly satisfying, but it is a great compilation!
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[@RocketVlogs]

Thank you all for an awesome year! Please be sure to subscribe and live the video!

[@tetra3ne56scur3]

I just subscribed What does CATO stand for?

[@koczisek]

10:45 - the "Smashing Almost": almost launched, almost imminent, almost saved

[@neutronium9542]

I think that was the first time I've seen an Estes Dude fly. I remember seeing it in the Estes catalog as a kid.

[@vicroc4]

I had one as a teenager. My first 24mm motor. It was... kind of terrible. XD

[@ClayAutery]

Braden, If it ever crosses your mind to wonder, "Is it worth it?" to put in all the work required for this channel, I just wanted you to know this. I've been out of rocketry for better than 2 decades, but have always wanted to progress into HPR. Thanks to THIS channel, on which I have watched virtually every video in the last 2 weeks, I am now a TRA member, seeking contact with my state's Prefecture, a TRF Supporter. And thanks to your videos showing the Punishers 3, 4, &5, I have become enamored with the Punisher and HEDD. So much so, that I dropped an order with Wildman for the Punisher 3, 54mm AT motor hardware sufficient to fly ANY 54mm motor, et al; Avionics order with Altus Metrum, and am dropping my order with Rocketman tomorrow for chutes, nomex, et al. (also your video on Rocketman chute); and additional; orders at McMaster, West Systems, and other vendors to round out materials required. Planning to use this build for my Level 1 & 2 next Spring in Winnsboro, LA. It is ALL your fault! Thank you! I haven't had this much fun in a long time! Happy Thanksgiving! Be well and be safe! -Clay PS - I am "cautery" on TRF.

[@RocketVlogs]

Right on man! I'm glad you got back into it! I appreciate the kind words

[@ClayAutery]

@@RocketVlogs You earned them, for sure!

[@waltersistrunk4200]

Love to watch this stuff. I have a few suggestions though, to improve your videos and make them more enjoyable. Always put the camera on a tripod with a video head. Always turn off the automatic focus and set the focus to infinity. Always use a camera with a manual zoom. Turn the monitor display to be viewed from the side, and stand to the side of the camera. Adjust the tripod so the camera is face high. This will enable you to get great pictures of the launch. Just sayin’.

[@RocketVlogs]

I have addressed this many times, but people continue to suggest it. So, I'll go for it again. There is ZERO chance of tracking a rocket on a tripod no matter what ballhead you have it on. Especially when you aren't looking through the viewfinder in the sun in the middle of the desert. You don't see the screen. I don't shoot with autofocus and haven't for quite some time, this is footage from the past year where a lot of launches I was flying, too, so I didn't have a lot of time to setup and catch flights. I shoot with an A6300, which does not have a fold out monitor screen. I'm sure these tips would enable great pictures of the launch, like you said, but I'm not shooting pictures. I'm shooting videos. Just sayin'.

[@needleonthevinyl]

2:37 Wonder how far down range it went after it performed the gravity turn maneuver

[@RocketVlogs]

The what now?

[@needleonthevinyl]

@@RocketVlogs Gravity turn! That thing was ready to head off to orbit. A little short on delta-V though.

[@vicroc4]

​@@needleonthevinyl Just needed another stage or two.

[@kh40yr]

4:18- Some very slippery looking high-G maneuvering. The leaping spider,,I just might have to make one of those,,because they are so comical. Love the "mortar tube" fails ,,as the engine "roto-rooter's" the body tube inner diameter to a nice burnt charcoal paint tint,,,,,, AAAnd spits all your hard work out on the lawn for a Estes Yard Sale,,in a melting blob!!!!!!. Grr.

[@mercdragons]

The spider is Kansas. Same with inflatable

[@jnelson4765]

Fun seeing parts of the other hilariously nuts event in the Black Rock Desert.

[@miketay100]

Great video. Thanks for the effort.

[@hobie1dog]

I subscribed from your post on the rocketry Forum

[@earnestbunbury2103]

I'd love a fail compilation on the car channel but that would encompass most of the material already posted... 🤣

[@vicroc4]

"We need the fire people to go and play with fire."

[@estebanfrisch2536]

Will NEVER use Expedia or Yelp.

[@richardtozer3959]

good job

[@earnestbunbury2103]

LET'S GO BRADEN !!!

[@awesomeguygaming4702]

Maybe put a firework in the rocket in case it explodes in midair

[@stephenbillings]

There were a couple that looked like they had no problem. They were at 3:19 and 3:40. What was wrong with them?

[@RocketVlogs]

3:19 must have just been from clipping the footage and accidentally leaving it in. Whoops! 3:40 is undoubtedly a shred, though.

[@kurtanp]

I shudder as I watch

[@melplishka5978]

Awesome. Was that your rocket that went super ballistic?

[@RocketVlogs]

Unfortunately, it was, yes!

[@melplishka5978]

@@RocketVlogs shitty. Lol. I hope it wasn’t buried to deep lol.

[@jcota2003]

@@RocketVlogs Whistle-splat recovery is always the worst. Last rocket I built was for a High School rocketry competition in 2003. Got to go to Washington DC area for the national challenge, got to meet Homer Hickam, the highlight of the trip honestly as our rocket electronics messed up and we had a nasty delay on firing the second stage. As a result it was already nose down when the second stage fired and the chute deployed about 15 feet from the ground. I think that I might pick up some small kits for my kids Christmas presents this year, its been a long time since I built one so I might get me one too.

[@mercdragons]

18lb on a M motor

[@lucashughes8063]

@1:43 we need fire people to go and play with fire please 😂

[@sponger516]

what happened at 6:55?

[@RocketVlogs]

Overpressurized

[@karlrobinson4887]

Here's one you can add to your collection: Epic L2 cert fail with a CTI K675 (87% K) in a modified 3" LOC Iris. Folded in half like a taco as she approached Mach 1. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZjNhKytnqmJj5Y

[@MT-THNDR207]

Most of them were not even fails, but rather imbalances

[@mercdragons]

That is a fail. We have programs that tell us the CG to CP with any motor we put in. So that should not happen.

[@vicroc4]

Some of them were because they lost a fin or two.

[@MT-THNDR207]

@@vicroc4 Basically

[@vicroc4]

@@MT-THNDR207 That's a failure, then. Not always the most visually impressive, sure, but a part of the rocket did fail.

[@MT-THNDR207]

@@vicroc4 I guess some things can be subjective.