Author Topic: Mini video cam + model rocket = Wow! (Read 659 times)

LePaul · « **on:** December 22, 2006, 08:27:11 PM »

Check out some of the video clips on this site...

http://www.boostervision.com/boostervision/video.asp

Cougar68 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2006, 08:32:37 PM »

Here's a link that works.

http://www.boostervision.com/boostervision/video.asp

LePaul · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2006, 08:46:04 PM »

LOL you win!

Halo · « **Reply #3 on:** December 22, 2006, 08:50:58 PM »

Fun stuff, thanks.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #4 on:** December 23, 2006, 07:10:32 AM »

Some of those vids are fascinating, Lepaul!
I don't know if you remember the rockets they used to make in the 1970's that had the small camera that would take photos when your rocket reached apogee, black and white crappy pics, but MAN that was technology!

Here I was at 13 sporting plaid pants and a couple small rockets..

LePaul · « **Reply #5 on:** December 23, 2006, 01:27:07 PM »

Don't those make you want to jump right back into rocketry?

I read that Estes has an "Oracle" rocket, with a built in camera. I haven't found one locally but maybe this spring.

Once I have this robot project completed, it might be time to get back into Estes, Aerotech and multistage rockets again

Roscoroo · « **Reply #6 on:** December 23, 2006, 02:15:47 PM »

i had one of those payloaders (one on the left) ... A little screamer , and a goblin (the "D" engine monster) . I saved up for a dual stage ,,,but it burned out its side on its second launch.

another year and i'll have a legit excuse to play with rockets again .
we can still get most of those rockets too . the estes are at toysRus ,kbee and Galaxy hobby in Lynnwood has a sweet collection .
Just dont drool over those 80 sec motors ... hell thats like stratosphere compared to our old 6-12 sec ones .

(notice Rips mum musta Really loved ya to make ya go "Plaid" ,,,, all I got was handme down levi's)

LePaul · « **Reply #7 on:** December 23, 2006, 07:59:47 PM »

Oh Ros...

I just found my Aerotech kit...I have the launcher and rocket....Initiator one. If I could hack into that thing with a mini camera, that would be cool.

I have this one

Thanks for posting that, I forgot I bought one of those kits from a Hobby Shop going out of business. I got the whole thing for $55

Estes · « **Reply #8 on:** December 23, 2006, 08:33:39 PM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
Don't those make you want to jump right back into rocketry?

I read that Estes has an "Oracle" rocket, with a built in camera. I haven't found one locally but maybe this spring.

Once I have this robot project completed, it might be time to get back into Estes, Aerotech and multistage rockets again

Wait a minute....Ahh nevermind. Merry Christmas!

nirvana · « **Reply #9 on:** December 23, 2006, 08:41:00 PM »

I recall seeing several rockets from Estes a few years back when my dad and myself were into it with the cameras. They also had one called shell shocked that you put an egg into and then launched it. One of our rockets had a burn through and it cut the parachute/nose cone line. After that we kind of gave up, kind of an expensive hobby I guess.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #10 on:** December 24, 2006, 05:58:02 AM »

Rockets are still fairly cheep to get into . I enjoyed them and our little rocket club all thru grade school and jr high .

We used to get the local Mason's lodge involved too and they'ed donate to our club so we always had good launch pads and spare motors .

LePaul · « **Reply #11 on:** December 24, 2006, 10:27:54 AM »

The trick is finding a good place to launch a rocket that exceeds 3,000ft. What goes up can't always be found when it comes down LOL

I'm on the approach end of a busy civilian/Air-Army Guard base...so it would be a really bad idea to launch here

eskimo2 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 24, 2006, 10:53:39 AM »

The last rocket I built used a G motor that I got from a guy I knew who had a license to buy them. The motor that I got had adamaged nozzle and he didn’t want to risk using it in an expensive rocket. I made a rocket as light as possible and glued the motor in. The payload was a 4’ parachute. It went up forever and the chute deployed well. 4’ of parachute with not much weight under it means a very slow decent. We watched that thing with binoculars for 15 or 20 minutes as it floated towards Big Lake from Houston, Alaska. A friend followed it in a car all the way to the end of the road at Big Lake; he said he still had to use binoculars to see it and it went beyond the lake and out of sight.

LePaul · « **Reply #13 on:** December 24, 2006, 11:14:03 AM »

My Aerotech came with 2 F motors

I can't imagine G's

The first flight worked flawlessly...I have no idea how high it went but we had to really force ourselves not to blink to follow it! When that big chute opened, the 5 of us fanned out to figure out where it would come down. Thankfully it was only a 1/2 mile from where we shot it off. But...it landed in an apple tree, 7 feet from the ground...just high enough where none of us could reach it. Then one of the guys put his dirt bike under it and stood on the bike to nab it.

What was funny was that all the paint on the nose cone had peeled off

I was looking at the Aerotech site and they have some refillable rocket motors available. I wonder how cost effective that is?

The funniest launch I saw was a guy trying to give his remote controlled glider a rocket acsent a-al-space shuttle style. He used a low powered rocket (A8-3) but just the sheer acceleration was too much....the wings were back at the pad while the fuselage tumbled along to 200ft.

Thrawn · « **Reply #14 on:** December 24, 2006, 11:45:45 AM »

I just had a geekgasm.