Skittles in Microgravity

[@a.cd.c7893]

Watching from Brazil! :-)

[@GobaldoGamer]

tbm

[@keshawkumar4473]

amazing experiment . always eagerly wait for your rocket experiment

[@AirCommandRockets]

Cheers Keshaw. :)

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

im impressed... how hi did yall go.. .doc johnny

[@herzigfrancois5444]

Hello George, Your experience is very well done. We had realized the same thing with Tic Tac candy installed in a large nosecone. The camera was placed horizontally in the bottom of the nosecone and filmed the sweets that were in weightlessness (zero G) for a few seconds. Each candy had a mass of 1 gram. Unfortunately, I do not find the video we had realized ... Good continuation, friendships. Francis.

[@AirCommandRockets]

Thank you Francois, We had lots of fun doing this experiment. Especially at the end when we got to eat the payload. :)

[@herzigfrancois5444]

ah ah ah !!

[@Muckytuja]

That wasn't in zero G, the TicTac was freefloating from it's container, but the candy, the container, the rocket, was in the influence of gravity! The ISS isn't in zero G. Heck even the Moon isn't in zero G! If it would be, it would have already gone, isn't it?

[@teamlucrockets]

Great idea. Still a few seconds off microgravity. well done.

[@AirCommandRockets]

Cheers Luc :)

[@Basrockets]

Cool experiment! I followed you from the beginning so i do know this experiment.

[@AirCommandRockets]

Thanks Basrockets! I can't believe that it's already been 10 years since we flew it.

[@TheNateTake]

Man I really need to get back into water rockets! I never found a new launch site since I moved to a different state.

[@AirCommandRockets]

They can be hard to find. Good luck. :)

[@WATERROCKETSCLUB]

Great! Cheerful experiment;). The experimental rocket compartment and camera mount look very cool! Made on a 3-d printer?

[@AirCommandRockets]

Thanks water rockets club. Yes they are 3D printed. Sure makes making these things easier. :)

[@thorinti]

Great George !!, me pregunto por qué algunas Rocklets no flotan como los otros?. Felicitaciones por el experimento !!

[@AirCommandRockets]

Thanks Thorinti. I think that the Skittles higher up in the payload bay are 'weighed down' by the ones lower down and so don't move as much. The ones at the very bottom are more free to move.

[@RaketfuedrocketsDeutschland]

Very nice experiment! I wonder how the results would look like when testing it on a Shadow rocket. ;) Keep the great work up! :) Julian

[@AirCommandRockets]

Thanks Julian. It was fun because we got to eat all the Skittles afterwards. I suspect the experiment would be very similar on the Shadow. I think if the rocket had a much higher ballistic coefficient then drag is going to be less of an issue and you would get perhaps lower microgravity.

[@MultiSegelflieger]

Nice Video as always!

[@jackhydrazine1376]

What is the keychain camera that you used to video the Skittles?

[@AirCommandRockets]

It's the 808 #16 V3 with the wide angle lens. Here it is on ebay: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mini-DVR-808-Micro-Camera-16-V3-D-HD-720P-H-264-Pocket-Camcorder-Video-Recorder-/160874297245?hash=item2574daf79d:g:8g4AAMXQVERS01aB

[@KerbalChris]

What about nuts