Imagine if the blades of the spinner had some pitch to them and the bearing wasn't being held in place.
Can you say gyro copter?
Can you say gyro copter?
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A couple things. After the rocket goes out it shoots something out the front. Pretty sure that is either to ignite the second stage and seperate and/or push the nose cone off to deploy the parachute.
next he guessed a rpm of 5280. Now can you even imagine a V8 crankshaft at 8250 (Shelby Gt350R redline) a 11500 rpm (F1 car).
I'm tempted to start telling any fidget spinner guy over 18 to lock himself in a small room and drop a block of magnesium in a bowl of HCL and watch the pretty smoke.
Okay, that's a joke people. NO ONE try that at home.
Those rocket motors (I shot a ton of them off as a kid) thrust for 3 - 4 seconds. have a brief pause. Then blow a 'popper' out the top to push of nose-cone and blow out the parachute on the Estes Rocket. I had all kinds of Estes rockets as a kid.
The last time I got a rear-end-tanning at about 12.... was when my best friend and I discovered (after I read a book about WW2 bombing in Europe) that strips of tinfoil would cause a radar return. So, we put strips of tinfoil in our rockets instead of parachutes and fired them over the local golf course. And after the rocket went up to 1000 feet or more and blew out all the tinfoil, a pair of F4 Phantoms from Plattsburgh would come buzzing over. Which was awesome! We could see low level Phantoms any time we wanted? Well that was great fun as far as we we were concerned. Until we told his dad, who was in the Civil Air Patrol, about how we were getting Phantoms to fly over. He was not amused. In fact, he was really not amused. And we both got 'tannings. And stopped putting tinfoil in rockets.
A few years later, we discovered motorcycles and girls. And that was it for rockets. Though there was this bazooka we built in High School.... but that's another story.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Great story! Sounds a bit like some of the fun things we did, that were not appreciated by those in authority. Sigh...things that would get us a record nowadays.
BUMP this bitch up. It's good for my post count
"Your generation is too reliant on technology" said my grandpa. "No, your generation is too reliant on technology" I retorted as I pulled the plug on his life support to further prove my point.
B.A.M. Big Ass Midget hee hee hee
This thing was 70% Badonkadonk. I'm not kidding. Her 'girlfriend' damn near cold busted me...........
And you sitting there with your camera just 'hopin that she's gonna come over and start pole-dancing on that handicap sign... weren't you?
Tip: If you start playing music and wave dollar bills out your truck window... she'll come running.
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Cheers,
Sirhr
Just in case you are missing work, AJ....
Cheers,
Sirhr