DIY Rocket Powered Plane!

hey guys backyard scientist here these styrofoam airplanes are super fun and if we put a GoPro camera on it we can get some really cool shots but you know what makes everything else better rockets all right before we start duct taping rocket engines to styrofoam airplanes throw it around first without any way down and see how it flies it should fly in a nice straight line parallel to the ground if the plane is too nose-heavy they'll just do dive bombs into the ground and if there's too much weight on the back it'll only do flips so I got a whole box of rocket engines everything from the smallest a size all the way up to huge homemade sugar rockets and we're going to see which rocket works the best by the time that the plane is able to flying the air for alright so I think we'll try the a motor first all right I'm gonna wait till this is almost done but I'm just gonna throw it here we go [Music] yes [Music] all right now we're going to be trying a B sized engine so I'm just going to load it up on in there and let's do this [Music] alright you know I think we got to do definitely a bigger one [Music] [Music] all right this is getting too dangerous to do at the beach because I almost lost my GoPro and the plane on that last one because that rocket engine shot it into the water so we're going to go to a park where we have a lot more room to test out the d e and home-made have rocket engines before we drove out to the park we decided to stop and get some more planes and trust me these things came in handy later here we go it's time for a de rocket engine the rocket loader didn't ignite until the plane was past its Apogee so it just rocketed straight into the ground and I'm going to try to fix this maybe by putting a rocket engine under the nose of the plane maybe this will provide more lift oh yeah it got lift alright I'm beginning to notice a trend in these bigger rockets they're totally unpredictable and what will happen our example here's an app engine it's too heavy to throw so I decided to try to launch it that did not work next I tried my homemade sugar rockets on a launch Pole and they just exploded all of them these big rocket engines are just way too much trouble the small ones are much more you see it it's right above me in a tree that tell us some sick forest oh no what was that [Music] so as you might have guessed from watching my video I'm not a rocket scientist you could do it don't ask just go but that doesn't mean I can't learn the great courses plus comm is a subscription-based on-demand video service with lectures from top-notch professors and Ivy League universities and experts in fields like National Geographic and Smithsonian they have a library of over 7,000 video lectures to choose from so you can learn about anything that interests you personally I love thinking about in learning about anything space related that's why my favorite course is the one called life in our universe by professor close it goes over all of our efforts to explore the universe and find life now my favorite lecture in the course is the one about space travel it goes over all the technical difficulties we face before we can explore the universe and it kind of makes me feel better that I'm not the only one with rocket problems anyway the great courses plus is giving away a free one-month trial to you my viewers and players start as low as $14.99 per month show your support to my channel by subscribing to the great courses plus please go to the great courses plus comm slash backyard and please click on the link below to start your free one-month trial today see ya you

Channel: TheBackyardScientist

Views: 8,800,000

Rating: 4.8574395 out of 5

Keywords: Model rocket, rocket plane, Rocket engine on plane, toy plane, rocket engine, styrofoam plane, DIY plane

Id: xaWWZEDjMW0

Length: 5min 55sec (355 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 19 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/Drak3]

looks like the issue was the engine was offset too much. i'd bet if he hollowed out a space in the tail, or if he changed the angle it was mounted, that it would work better, especially with the bigger engines.

[u/ProStrat]

I would definitely buy a kit for something like this.