Viewing a rocket launch from a Quadcopter
An onboard video made by a quadcopter of Dan Welling’s M powered “Bits ‘n’ Pieces” rocket at a St. Louis Rocketry launch. The motor was a CTI M1790 skidmark motor (98mm 4 grain) and reached an...
View ArticleInside the Cockpit: Freedom 7
This an amazing real-time inside the cockpit view of the entire Freedom 7 flight of Alan Shepard as he becomes the first American in space. I suggest watching this in full screen! This compilation of...
View ArticleRocket’s sonic boom made visible by ice crystals
This Solar Dynamics Observatory Atlas V rocket launch in February 2010 exceeded the speed of sound in a layer of ice crystals, making the shock wave visible from the ground. This occurs around 1:53 in...
View ArticleSpaceX’s Grasshopper 744 meter Test
Latest and highest flight from point of view of the Hexacopter
View ArticleEarly 1960s documentary on Model Rocketry
The film was commissioned by National Association of Rocketry and is narrated by G. Harry Stine.
View ArticleVideo Hacking: All Saturn V’s launched at once
That’s 99,424,000 pounds-force or 442,260,000 newtons! …and for a little science -a newton explained: N: newton kg: kilogram m: metre s: second.
View ArticleFlight of the MegaGyroc
I have always been a fan of the Gyroc. If you see me at a launch at some point in the day I was likely to fly one. Back in the first year of this blog I wrote a post about the Gyroc with a little...
View ArticleArmstrong Flight Research Center historic videos now on Youtube
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (formerly Dryden) has placed a huge catalog of research and flight videos to a Youtube channel. Check out this great playlist on Lifting Bodies.
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