Home-Made Rocket Reaches 121,000 Ft. In Less Than 120 Seconds

[kpete]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f87_1377124843
(mr. pete TOLD me to share)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

1. thanks, mr pete.

[yourout]

2. Awesome...

[Ptah]

3. Outstanding!

http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html

[City Lights]

4. That was freakin' awesome!

Thanks, Mr. Pete!

[Aerows]

5. Very cool! n/t

[longship]

6. OMFG! That is one incredible video.

The real time view from the rocket is astounding. Especially the sounds. Especially when the rocket shuts down.

Amazing! Somebody's going to quickly hire these people.
R&K

[ljm2002]

7. Wow!!!

That was well worth watching! Thanks to you and Mr. Pete for sharing this!

[Brother Buzz]

8. A link to the backstory on this cool device

http://www.space.com/13245-amateur-rocket-qu8k-carmack-prize.html

[think4yourself]

9. So cool!

Thanks for sharing. The real time video was thrilling, to say the least!

[Demo_Chris]

10. Fantastic! REC!

[Skeeter Barnes]

11. Onboard footage is amazing. Thanks for posting.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Where does it come down?

[Brother Buzz]

13. Three mile from launch site

http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Not bad. It went up almost 23 miles.

[Brother Buzz]

22. I'd say damn good considering they launched it from that cheesy Unistrut® thingy

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Considering it didn't have a guidance system either.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

33. I thought for sure somebody in El Segundo would be in for a shock when it landed on their car.

[Brother Buzz]

34. That was the MythBusters' errant Cannonball

[Hassin Bin Sober]

35. LOL

[Skeeter Barnes]

28. Wow. At top speed it is literally as fast as a bullet. 900 FPS.

[Brother Buzz]

29. Yes, faster then most common rounds - 3400 fps

That 900 fps was the maximum speed coming down with a drogue parachute attached, screaming through some pretty thin atmosphere (or the lack of it).

[Skeeter Barnes]

36. lol I'll catch on eventually

Thanks for pointing that out!

[GliderGuider]

37. Where does it come down?

"Who cares? That's not my department..."

[Hassin Bin Sober]

38. I would think someone with your user name would care.

[GliderGuider]

40. Oh, I do.

But Werner Von Braun didn't...

By the way, this is me on the right, a rocketboi in the spring of 1965. The rocket was no 100,000 foot monster, but we did get 4,000 feet out of it using a zinc-sulphur propellant.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

41. Wow! Very cool!

I've never seen that Tom Lehrer bit. LOL

Are you a glider pilot?

[GliderGuider]

42. Yes, I am. Currently inactive due to the economy, though...

I never wanted to fly power, it was too noisy and goal-oriented - too much like just driving around. I wanted to get as close as I could to feeling wings growing out of my shoulders Longest duration flight was 7.5 hours, longest distance 350 km. All flatland thermal flying in Ontario, Canada.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Can't wait for the multi-stage version....

Reentry could be tricky.

[LVdem]

16. Very, very cool...

Forwarded to friends and relatives...

Thanks for the post.

[Fuddnik]

18. How cool is that!?!

[hibbing]

19. wow

Hi kpete,
Thanks for posting that, incredible. Brought me back to my days of launching Estes rockets, this went a bit higher than my triple stage D engine one though.

Peace

[TeamPooka]

20. K&R!

[JohnnyRingo]

21. K&R

...for Kool Rocket!
The onboard camera footage was especially good.

Thanx for posting!

[Warren DeMontague]

24. K&R

[Hekate]

25. Zowie!

[hunter]

26. Derek Deville Answers Your Questions on Rocketry -- Slashdot

http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/11/07/1710219/derek-deville-answers-your-questions-on-rocketry

[Recursion]

27. Don't tell North Korea (nt)

[B Calm]

30. LOL

[Duckhunter935]

31. cool but

it should be banned. It can shoot down a plane. At least ban it in New Jersey.

[randome]

32. This isn't just the mechanics of rocketry, although that's impressive on its own.

It's also the ubiquitous nature of the Internet that makes this information easy to find and collate.

Amazing.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[Octafish]

39. The onboard camera catches the sky going from blue to black as it climbs.

Incredible rocket and rocketeers!

Thanks to Mr. pete and kpete!

[IDemo]

43. Do they have to get a clearance from the FAA, the USAF, Homeland Security?

A local rocket club used to call in launch times to the Air Force base 40 miles south of here, or so the rocketeer president told me. They built some impressive rockets but were definitely not in this league, though.