Biggest Explosions in Amateur Rocketry!!

Why are there never fins towards the front of rockets ? Wouldn't this help with stabilization?

Lots of “actually”, but no big explosions.

talk only ! not create

Don't use stainless steel bolts for high strength applications, LOL. Wow, kind of a basic ME fail on that Balerion test.

Am still waiting for the Biggest Explosions OOPS Sorry I just figured it out, you are a Clickbait Title Specialist.

That was a beautiful explosion! Very nice!

would be better if you could Speake more consisely

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that rolling moment is a dutch roll that can happen to aircraft to.

1) There is no such term as "solid rocket". Perhaps you want to say "solid fuel" rocket. 2) Your frequency vs roll graph is wrong: the rocket's natural frequency doesn't change. And many other errors in your script. You might want to make sure you really know the terms, where and how they apply, otherwise you'll be misguiding people.

Actually,actually actually I think you show your face tooooo much, are you in love with yourself?

Ammmmm Mr. Manbun. NO EXPLOSIONS HAPPEN WHEN "EVERYTHING WAS DONE ABSOLUTLY RIGHT".

shit thats done absolutly right go 100% right.

I am good.

Why did I watch this? Searching for rocket explosions. Few and far between, and not very spectacular.

Keep safe

biggest explosions?? where? maybe some fubars but not really explosions...

15 minutes in and only a minor pop no explosion yet

5 minutes in and no explosion

Slow down and _phonate_... we know you're excited but we'd also like to hear what you have to say!

Love the shout-out for Obsidian! (Also the rocket that failed was copperhead)

Hi, former USC Rocket Propulsion Lab team historian here. This is a really cool video! It's nice to see some background on all the progress that rocket teams have made in the last decade or two, and all the setbacks that they've had to deal with. Anyway, couple minor things to note:

1. We believe that Traveler 1 actually failed due to an issue with the propellant mix -- a process step was missed which led to the outsides of the fuel grains beginning to burn during flight. This likely caused an exponential increase in pressure inside the motorcase, leading to kaboom. That said, we figured out in later launches and static fires that the case design used on this rocket was flawed as well, and there's a good chance it would have failed in another couple seconds anyway.

2. You're pretty much bang on correct about the Traveler 3 situation, I'm afraid. It was really a pileup of bad stuff: there was procedure chaos on launch day due to things like our trailer losing a wheel and putting us 12 hrs behind schedule, our igniter cable not being long enough to go from base camp to the pad, dust storms, etc. Then there was a radio miscommunication between the team at the ignition box and the avionics operators: we on avionics told them we were disarming it to check out a sensor reading, and they didn't hear us. Then they launched it, not realizing we weren't ready. Though in some ways that day was a success (first time we had an 8" full size vehicle not blow up), it was incredibly facepalm-worthy and we had to think long and hard about how to make sure it couldn't happen again.

3. The first two of the recent static fire failures were attributed to problems with the carbon fiber motor-case, yeah, but not to mistakes in manufacturing it. Rather, Earthshaker and Earshakiier used different carbon fiber designs that reduced the number of layers in an attempt to make the case lighter. After a ton of simulations and math, many tests with strain gauges, and two failed motors, we finally realized that the original Traveler 3/4 design was in fact better, though now we have a much better idea of what makes it work. For the third one, Earthshakiiest, we switched back to the original case design but tried a new propellant formulation, which turned out to have issues with cracking. We suspect that the propellant grains broke into pieces on ignition which caused a huge increase in burning rate and a big boom.

All in all, thanks for making this video and glad to see my team get some love!

I remember very well seeing Aris launch teil rocket Euler at EuRoC 2021. Unfortunately their solid motor (which actually was COTS!) started spewing flames from both ends, and ended up being quite a spetacular failiure.

I like you added bbc top gear rocket that was a cool episode

Cool Explosions!