High Power Rocketry FAIL COMPILATION (CATO, Shred, Chuffs and More) 2022 Edition | Part 1

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[@keyogen]

My first rocket total flight time was 31sec. The parachute deploy at 30sec.

[@nereanim]

"Expect the unexpected... and bring your fire extinguisher!" - Best line in there.

[@leokimvideo]

"Expect the Unexpected" understatement of the century

[@benjaminnevins5211]

Love your videos!

[@iitzfizz]

You're everywhere I am

[@pastorjerrykliner3162]

"...and bring a fire extinguisher."

[@terrytreadway9645]

My first rocket was a baking soda vinegar propelled plastic....such fun! Finally moved into Estes rockets when I got my first paper route and could pay for my hobby....I fell in love but have not launched one in over 50 years. Thanks to ALL of you I can still enjoy the thrill vicariously so a BIG THANKS!

[@Wings_of_foam]

It's not too late for you to pick it up again :) Well I hope you can.

[@ljre3397]

Same here but I walked dogs back in the ‘60s.

[@MuzixMaker]

Likewise!

[@majorhavoc9693]

I think there's a saboteur loose in the rocket club...

[@jayjarrett732]

That 500 pound rocket was just amazing. The sound was awesome!

[@StreuB1]

An extremely troubling number of failures at the MDRA launch.

[@coastermania17]

Very low compared to the number of successes

[@RocketVlogs]

To be fair, there are a TON of flights at Red Glare. There's a lot more failures at Airfest and LDRS generally, but I didn't get as many clips because I was flying at both those launches.

[@RocketVlogs]

That being said, there was no shortage of recovery issues out there.

[@7wt]

It’s the east coast attention span

[@lukebaker1167]

@@RocketVlogs so what!!?? If they fail they fail, if not they go up n come back reusable!! Simple as that!!!

[@painmt651]

Love watching rocket launches.

[@marinegunny826]

I'm glad these guys never packed MY chute 😂

[@roberts.8430]

Pretty good editing on this one! I like how you cut straight to each launch and whoever was filming it kept a pretty steady frame. Thank you, good job.

[@andymaczak5]

Lol sarcasm

[@roberts.8430]

@@andymaczak5 No, I actually liked it. You're mean.

[@wiredforstereo]

Best rocket show I ever saw, was for a birthday party, guy built a bunch of rockets to explode. They all exploded. Two on the launch bad. Great show.

[@defective6811]

'oh, it's a static test'

[@gsxrsquid]

Reminds me when I built an Estes Mean Machine. For some dumb reason I did not glue the motor mount to the body. It launched and flew beautifully,arched over and while still horizontal the ejection charge went of and blew the motor mount out of the back and the rocket went ballistic. It came in in soft sod and stuck about 6 inches in the ground. About 12" of the tube crushed but everything else was intact. I cut out the damaged section, glued in a motor mount and flew that rocket for a long time without any more problems.

[@EleanorPeterson]

I appreciate that this video only features a compilation of the day's launches that didn't go as planned, but rocketry still looks like a mighty expensive way to spend your time to me. (I'm based in the UK and used to fly RC model gliders.) In terms of commitment, rocketry reminds me of a description I saw of Class-1 offshore powerboat racing: it's like standing under a waterfall, tearing up £50 notes... 😁

[@bunnykiller]

its called " the worlds fastest hobby" for a reason you get to watch 100+$ burn up in seconds

[@vicroc4]

Even low-power rocketry can be absurdly expensive. I recently bought a pair of motors for almost $13 (£10.68). And then flame-retardant wadding to protect the parachutes, $7.99 for three flights' worth (£6.56). Plus spare igniters, $6.99 for a pack of six (£5.74). And that's not counting the new kit I bought along with them, or the batteries to replace the dead ones in my launch controller. But even all that is peanuts to what the high-power guys are paying for their motors. $50 for a H-class motor? No thanks!

[@williamstrachan]

@@vicroc4 I had a look at the motor Xyla Foxlin used in her Spite rocket, something like $600 😬very rapidly made me a perfectly content spectator!

[@vicroc4]

@@williamstrachan Yeah, that Level 3 stuff is ridiculous. And the carbon fiber she built the thing out of can't be cheap either.

[@williamstrachan]

@@vicroc4 I think at one point she says the whole thing is about $3k. Still, to be getting Mach 2 and 20k+ feet altitude... can't think of many cheaper ways! Were Concorde tickets that cheap even?

[@marcellorossini5822]

"Don't try to catch it" "Boing" This is much better than comedy show

[@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami]

There is a wholesome charm to amateur rocket meetups. ❤

[@SKYWURX]

Really excellent tracking shots! Well done with the camera work.

[@Thedude2283]

I’ll say with 100% confidence I find this video satisfying solely due to steady camera work, good job 👍

[@dang48]

These are great. Time 13:17 could be best described as "Bouncy, bouncy bouncy". Sorry for laughing but that was hilarious.

[@neutronium9542]

You did a great job tracking mine at 15:08. I did manage to get my L3 last month on a fresh Motor Eater kit and with the M1297 I got as the warranty replacement for the M1780 in this video.

[@lavafootpodcast1147]

Man I hurt just from watching that

[@paulannable3734]

Can I ask what it is that you’re doing? I get that you’re trying to successfully launch a rocket, but what would a success look like?

[@noka1979]

@@paulannable3734 landing intact

[@paulannable3734]

@@noka1979 aaaaaaaaaaaah. Thank you. You must deploy chutes?

[@user-ev4pb9xj7e]

What would be really cool is someone building a Patriot missile, complete with warhead. Intercepting someone’s SU-35, blowing it out of the sky.🤔

[@Chris-of6xm]

Haha "this won't end well". Great video thanks!

[@catchthewind8563]

"Are we good with this thing?" is not what I want to hear when attempting to launch oversized lawn darts into the stratosphere. 🤣🤣

[@richardmessenger9474]

Great video....must be a very expensive way of playing lawn darts..😆😆

[@juliogonzo2718]

Wow that is good camera work to keep a rocket in frame!

[@Sailor376also]

Excellent footage !! Very talented camera work ! I too have launched a 'failure'. First launch of the day was a resounding success, calculated 6,000 foot max altitude. Wind took it far down range,, corn,, ah well. BUT !! Someone looking for theirs found mine. So,, from the supplier on site, I bought the biggest engine that would fit. Huge, friend with license had to buy it. Ignition,, was not so smooth. Rocket sputtered to 40 vertical feet, angled over about 45 degrees,, and then fully ignited for its planned 6.5 second burn. By calculation,, should have hit Mach 2 and distance based upon artillery ballistics,, should have traveled 7 miles,,,,, or so,,, into the next state I hope no cow was hurt,,, but we laughed until our sides ached. Complete success.

[@Cre8tvMG]

Isn't launching rockets into another state considered an act of war?? ;-)

[@raptormaxx]

love model rockets but this shows me that you should bring a shovel lol

[@arctan64]

I built a 7 foot tall rocket in 2010 that failed to eject the parachute, I forget how high apogee was but because the rocket was essentially a large pencil it took a shovel to get the disfigured nose cone out of the ground. Everyone at the airstrip was very nice about it, I was just glad I didn't hit a car. My other shorter but much fatter rocket which was a couple engine grades above the previous rocket did well on several launches that day luckily.

[@Cre8tvMG]

12:23. I don't know what they used for fuel but its the coolest one by far!

[@jwrockets]

All of these motors are Amonium Perclorate Composite Propellant (APCP). That rocket flew on what is called a "sparky" motor. There is some extremely fine titanium dust mixed into the propellant.

[@pbreezy870]

The announcer at @2:00 had no faith in the rockets haha

[@rover6843]

Wow I’m “glad” I’m not the only one who ate a box of catos for breakfast 2 days ago. I over drilled the dms motor (rookie mistake) bc I was in a hurry to catch an opening in the clouds and things got too spicy 🥵 😅 in the middle of my Zephyr.

[@DrDeuteron]

0:47. major flashback. I was putting passive NASA equipment on dry lake beds in Ft Irwin, and we had to watch UXO training vids before we went out. So it's hot af and the mirage effect would prevent you from seeing the lake bed past 100 feet. All of a sudden a tail fin would appear sticking out of the hardened mud...like all the time. They were unexploded mortar rounds launched when the lake was wet. It took a looooooong time drive across that lake bed.

[@usware5240]

Ladies and gentleman expect the unexpected. That's our motto cuz you never know what the fucks gunna happen or what's gunna catch on fire.

[@altemose_prime]

Very cool. Can’t believe how big the yellow and blue rocket was. Wish it had gone all the way.

[@alitlweird]

You could make a hilarious mockumentary on this subject! 🚀

[@joshkadosh5636]

I competed in TARC and that was a major headache lol

[@andrewbranch4075]

"It's going to be loud and reach 3000ft!" Asthma attack, followed by thud. I love watching other people's money go "boom!"

[@crazyfroggie6546]

It reached 3000 centipedes feet ..

[@obscurity3027]

That big Bertha double O-7 motor rocket was pretty badass. I wish it would’ve flown straighter!

[@RocketVlogs]

It did last time! One of the motors blew the nozzle out this year, unfortunately. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJCzqKOYq5hml6c

[@steveb9151]

0:45 Time for a drink at the Auger Inn.

[@Shabaka87]

I used to love buying the model rockets when I was a kid. Always got stuck in the tree in our yard.

[@keiths1]

Who was the range master at that launch? Who was inspecting the rockets before launch? A separation with parts coming down without parachutes should rarely happen. Troubling to see so many at the same event.

[@timgriffith5293]

Like the fail compilation.

[@nathandodge665]

Love the yellow one!

[@Andrew-13579]

At 15:45. I’m thinking that one was just a bit aerodynamically unstable, initially. It wanted to do loops. As propellant burned off, the CG moved forward and it became stable…although on a horizontal path. Now that’s a fun rocket! You never know which way it will go! Heads-up!! 😂. They should load it again, the same, and see if it repeats that behavior…but without spectators around.

[@NeoRipshaft]

Props to the dude who glued all the chutes 🤣

[@stanleybest8833]

Good photography tracking.

[@Andrew-13579]

At 15:20. That one made an awesome sound! Like it had a gas issue. 😂

[@dontroutman8232]

When your Estes rocket hobby becomes an obsession...

[@numbersabcdefg]

I know they are all different. But, how fast are some of them going?

[@RocketVlogs]

Well north of the speed of sound!

[@MyNomDePlume]

3:28 Wile E Coyote assembled this kit that was made in China.

[@williampollock1274]

The last part of the video looks like it's just outside of Boulder city Nevada!

[@eldritchshiner]

Undoubtedly more fun than when everything goes right.

[@RocketVlogs]

Easy to say when it wasn't your money and time spent lol

[@eldritchshiner]

@@RocketVlogs Hey, I'll say it again lol. I flew R/C for 30 years and I get that these mini-disasters do provide spectacular entertainment for all- at the sad expense of the builder/pilot, of course. But every failure seeds progress, right?

[@TedTucholski]

I love how all of the 5...4...3...2...1's are all different

[@danielfloyd9742]

"don't worry about it" lol😂

[@Renard380]

Never thought i'd see a rocket twerk 😂

[@williampollock1274]

Damn, I had better luck with Estes rockets as a kid!😂

[@sunnyscott4876]

Well, the big blue and yellow one was very impressive sitting on the launch pad. That was all she wrote! Bye-bye rocket 🚀!

[@brianb8060]

"Expect the unexpected.. and bring a fire extinguisher."

[@frostyfrost4094]

Very true and lots of friends to stamp out the fire

[@brianb8060]

@@frostyfrost4094 OOOH WEEE!!! We got us a fire stompin' boys. LET'S GO!!!

[@machoneboard]

I stayed for the commentator - brilliant! ‘So much for saving money!’

[@jwrockets]

Yeah, a six inch HPR with a 3 inch point of failure. No one could have predicted that one. My largest build was 4 inches.

[@jimm8246]

Reminds me of October Sky when Homer and his buddies were experimenting with their rockets on the slag dump.

[@Lesardah]

"Don't try to catch it!"

[@petercaroline4855]

The US military was looking for the best rocket designers and of course none were found here... Though many of the candidates have now qualified for the home land terrorist watch list... Great job guy's 😊

[@Andrew-13579]

At 13:23 I think that was a “pogo” problem. But I didn’t think that was possible with solid propellant. 😆. Maybe the propellants weren’t mixed thoroughly when it was being made?

[@briananderson8733]

Looks like a lot of them are what we used to in the late 60s,early 70s as core samplers.

[@painmt651]

Just before 11:00 the rocket was cool. Serious altitude!

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Model rocketry seems fun on the surface. But most of the flights are too short to appreciate it. Then at events you don't even get to launch your own model. Many modelers don't take enough precautions. I once lived in a fairly dense apartment complex. Someone down the street irresponsibly launched a model rocket. I had never seen one before and watched what little there was of the flight with interest. When it was too high to see I continued working under the hood of my vehicle. No sooner did i pick up a tool again when I heard "thunk" right next to me in the spot I was standing in a moment before. To this day I feel like I could have actually been killed. I'm not really volatile, but in a case like this I might easily have responded in a most unpleasant way. The only thing that saved the guy who launched the rocket was that I was in shock and went inside for a drink to calm down. I left my tools where they were for hours before I could go outside again. Keys were in the ignition too. Good thing it was otherwise a good neighborhood or I could have taken some losses. I'll never forget that occurrence and to this day won't go out of my way to see one ever again. Whenever I go into a hobby shop (I am enthusiastic about other kinds of models) and see a display of rockets, I immediately pucker up and and get very tense for a while.

[@Freedom1776usa]

Crazy. But even worse are the golf balls landing next to me while working on car. I found kids down the road. I let them know what they did. You know they were laughing their asses off though. 😜

[@joewoodchuck3824]

@@Freedom1776usa I hope you at least kept the balls.

[@shable1436]

I remember my Estes kits, I built hundreds of them, and boats too, I actually had it down to a science, unfortunately I never took notes

[@maxmyzer9172]

thank you

[@timescales]

Reminds me of the terms tumble recovery and the big one. Gravity.

[@SirCavemaninthewest]

5:02 hey hey hey who brought that Silver commodore!

[@terranovarain2183]

Static test he says Got jokes 😂😅

[@RoadWarrior-lo9vt]

Must have been lawn dart day!

[@LiveFastRaceHard]

The one @9:35, I mixed and poured my own engine, had air pockets in it (didn't pack or seat properly) it did exactly that flight too. It's wild fun and scary at the same time! If I was standing 180° opposite, it would have impacted my chest! Adrenaline Rush yeah buddy!!! I have some fuel tests and what not on my amature youtube page 😂. More to come this winter!

[@kaelandin]

Almost all of them went smoothly but for the parachute. It's a hard thing, even NASA had several failures only due to parachutes.

[@markmarsh27]

The water rockets I had in the '70's went higher than some of these.

[@illinoisvisuals]

"Boink" my favorite line 🤣

[@_JoyKiller]

I built and launched a rocket when i was a kid. It was exhilarating watching it go up, and that's all i can say because i never saw it again. :)

[@FAMEforM]

3:57 trying to restart the podracer

[@stevemarshall3481]

Watching something like this for the first time and all I can think is, how difficult it is to get a successful launch and a successful landing, gotta hand it to the guys and gal's who make the rockets that go into space carrying people and cargo, I'd be crapping myself lol

[@vicroc4]

To be fair, this isn't really representative of the success rate of model or high-power rockets. The motors, airframes, and recovery systems have all been under constant development since the late '50s and are usually pretty damn reliable. Most failures are because of the guy or gal that built the rocket or put it together at the range. It's only every once in a blue moon you get a failure that can't be traced to human error. Usually a catastrophic failure of the motor (CATO in rocketry lingo), due to undetectable flaws in the propellant grain. Or a machine failing to put an ejection charge in the motor, as happened with my recent Estes Show Stopper flight that came down the same way it went up and ended up disassembling itself on impact. Full-scale rockets have a much higher failure rate in proportion to the number of launches that occur each year - and yet, SpaceX recently completed 61 launches without a single failure, so the odds are changing on that one as well.

[@richardbrill2807]

That's a lot of words to blame your failure on an engine lol

[@The_Vaporizer]

NO actually I'm NOT a rocket scientist 😂

[@shawnathon60]

Pretty Expensive,, still would love to strap a go pro to a few!

[@BenBartlow]

Thanks for this would love to see a compilation of successes or just all of them to be honest. I love rockets

[@RocketVlogs]

You came to the right channel! All of these are from full-length videos of coverage of high power events that are all on my channel. You can see them in my playlists.

[@cannedlaughter2535]

Many of these rocket chutes weren't 4 imprint certain.

[@mitchfountain6523]

Are there no standards for model rocketry in the US? As a teenager, I went to scores of rocket meets (50 years ago) and I remember one or two going wrong at each meet but this looks like the wild west to me? Any fatalities, am I missing something? A lot of these look like they came from the same meet?

[@dennisgreiwe2078]

I'm not sure but I think these are the "outtakes" for lack of a better way to put it. Appears as if there are thousands of launches at these events. Some are experimental/custom... Which is why you hear the announcer(s) saying things like "MDRA events need visitors to bring fire extinguishers too". And, "Are we good with this thing?" When referring to a 300 lb fire propelled dart pointed skyward. You see there are people very far away from the launch pads for a reason... Failure happens. Especially in model rocketry fabrications/experimentals. This is just a bunch of failures in one video.

[@mitchfountain6523]

@@dennisgreiwe2078 Understood, thx

[@shatner99]

Iron dome picked you up immediately. A tad out of range. Lucky for you.

[@Wildstar40]

That announcer launching the rockets is so excited he does a 5 second countdown in 2.7 seconds🤣

[@alexharshman7025]

Last one I built when I was a kid and there was a place to get engines was made from a nose cone, salvaged fins and body, with a d engine and all contact cemented together. The body was so short there was only a half inch from the nose cone to the engine and my brother said it would only get a few feet off the ground before it went 💥….. so I never launched it. Then I’ve tried match stick rockets… they didn’t work, then I tried using a Soviet engineering method 😢 it just popped. So I guess I got it right 😅

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Skidmark is a classic name for a rocket.

[@CASA-dy4vs]

What we think we are doing when we play with toy rockets:

[@square7935]

thats really cool tbh i wish i had a hobby like this but i hope this is just the fails cause if not thats kinda sad

[@RocketVlogs]

Check out my channel for all the rest! It CAN be your hobby, too!

[@Sailor376also]

The 'fails' are not fails. You learn from them. Learning and a day out with friends,,, golden. Musk blew up a bunch of Falcon Nines,, Bezos blew up new Shepherd. You learn more from a 'failure' than you will from a success. And it is fun. Go do it.

[@sixstringedthing]

The best part of this video is the fact that I didn't spend a single dollar on any of these wayward rockets, other fools did that. I salute them. edit: new subscriber here, thanks for the most entertaining compilation :)

[@GeneralSorrow]

Heads up!

[@macfletcherhotmail]

I couldnt help but chuckle at the motorcycle comment at 15:30 and i apologize as i can only imagine the money in these and they have that type of flight

[@johnholmes6897]

Did any of these rockets succeed with "re-entry" ?

[@FrankBoston]

My Mosquito performed flawlessly.

[@irwinjimenez]

Is there a rocket club in SoCal?

[@RocketVlogs]

several!

[@shipofthesun]

0:49 "Well, at least we can find it."

[@AlphaAquilae]

12:03 some Kerbal thing

[@alexandertsanga]

That is Near Buildings and Roads, it looks like a Mile away is Not Enough to be launching Rockets

[@AndreLuiz-gk1mf]

Perfeito iguais da NASA 😄

[@hillbilly4christ638]

My big Bertha went higher than these rockets. The chute opened too. Looks like we have gone backwards over the years.

[@RocketVlogs]

I can assure you it did not lol. The only thing that's gone backwards is the ability of old folks who don't know anything but still comment like they do not learning how to use the internet 😉

[@donm1612]

I didn't see any failures here. I saw people trying out stuff and I bet these same rocketeers are right back sketching out the next project soon afterwards.

[@RocketVlogs]

I get what you're saying, but they're still failures. I've had my fair share of them, too. We DO learn from them, though!

[@donm1612]

@@RocketVlogs I get what you are saying too 🙂 I admire that bit of America that still tinkers with stuff especially the kind that scorches the desert sands and can be unpredictable.