New Rocket Powered Plane runs on Hydrogen Peroxide

[StarFoxAutobot]

How does that thing stop?

[Zoomer30]

Reno air racers? Like they will ever have them again.

[handiest1]

Amazing how consistant the exhaust flames are!

[IASOU2005]

Really, was this an amateur gay porn trailer?

[MrDesolate1]

More homosexual music. :/

[3habaneros]

change the title  , you have been corrected

[growingupisoptional]

Been waiting 4 years to see a rocket racing league race.

Seeing as the first race was scheduled for oct2008 I wonder if it will ever truely get off the ground?

Love the plane.

[380zeaiclies]

No peroxide was used, only liquid oxygen, isopropyl alcohol, and helium.

[RCAvhstape]

Cool. But what's with the high school band music? ;-)

[jakazza]

Rutan you ROCK . . et !

[thomasuras]

the germans did this 70 years ago with their jet rocket

[hybridpyrotech]

@thomasuras , was that the me163 komet?

[Alembic25]

Is this JUST Hydrogen Peroxide powering this plane? There is no Kerosene injection?

[Z1Z2Z5Z4]

If this technology is representative of the next generation of unlimited racers, I won't be watching. Without props? Like watching paint dry. Boorring!!

[af4k]

Sounds bloody dangerous!

[FlameYoshi1]

wow thats a long eazy with moter removed -__-

[josephdupont]

how high could this fly to?

[louswire]

depends on the size of the fuel tank, and pressure flask, and how thick the catalyst in the reaction chamber is...

[Alembic25]

When we Brits built rockets, we used this idea but added Kerosene to burn with the large ammount of free Oxygen generated by the catalysed reaction. More thrust is created but maybe the designers of this system want to reduce weight, by ditching the extra complexity. Look up our Black Arrow rocket to see more footage.

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[pete2778]

It's more a case that they are inefficient in terms of their performance rather than any consideration being given to wastefulness of resources. Rockets can fly faster and provide a lot of power but as a power source in an oxygen rich atmosphere they aren't as efficient as gas turbines, the weight of the fuel required to transport a given payload is far lower for a turbofan as used on conventional airliners than the fuel weight required for rocket motors.

[DrBuzz0]

It's cool and everything, but hardly cutting edge. Hydrogen peroxide rockets have been around since the 1930's if not earlier. They're very simple monofuel rockets. They were used on Mercury spacecraft but have since been replaced by more advanced rockets in spaceflight.

[defc0n005]

The Germans already did this in 1944...

[wolfekeeper]

LOL. There's a few problems with the explanation:

a) it's got nothing to do with NASA, it was funded by XCOR aerospace without any NASA funds

b) it doesn't run on peroxide, it uses LOX/kero

c) Rutan (Scaled composites) didn't have anything to do with it, XCOR took a Rutan plane that they already had that was missing an engine and retrofitted twin rocket engines to it

d) they did get Dick Rutan (brother of Burt Rutan) to test pilot it though, but it wasn't developed *by* him.

[Key2Be]

Is the cylinder under the plane the tank or the

jet motor of the flying-machine?

And how much of the sound can be heard from within , decibels ?

Nice plane! - -How do the extra frontal fins affect the flight?

[icefox00]

Look at the small flames from the back of the plane, they indicate that the cylinder is a fuel tank.

As for the front fins, I think they are for added stability in the absence of a tail.

[kirkmach32]

Also doubles as the ultimate welding torch

[ITSAJARED]

ooo Ive been in the hills in the background =D. THe exhaust on that looks wierd in flight.

[adam3176]

Well whatever its running on its Awsome.

I always wanted a long EZ. Plan on getting one. However now i want that rocket one.

I am begging santa. But im not sure he will come threw.

[cornflakes002]

hmmmmmmmm 1:23 shock diamonds

[krichekkkk]

Whats the range and top speed on this thing. Compare to Jim Bede's BD 5 microjet with a top speed of 325 mph and a range of 300+ miles how would the two aircraft rate. See I want to build one that is non air breathing so that I can fly it into space and back to earth again. I would like to have it as small as the BD 5. It would be nice to have something like a BD 5 become a personal transport, one could fly to work, maybe fly to the moon or the International Space Station and back.

Thanks

[datzfast]

i like the way you think.

[patrickrameau]

Unfortunately, this video pretty much demonstrates its maximum flight duration. Hard to compare this with the turbine BD-5 (apples nd oranges). BTW the BD-5's performance numbers tend to be quite exaggerated. Overall, a standard LongEZ is superior to the Bede jet in every way except top speed. This single-seat rocket EZ has greater speed and climb, but at the expense of everything else (ESPECIALLY range). Sorry, no chance of a spaceship version without "Unobtainium". Still, great job!!

[SmiertSpionem]

unobtanium lol, so true ;)

[rocketplumber]

I was the crew chief and engine designer for the XCOR Ez-Rocket. Let me correct some misinformation-

1) No peroxide was used, only liquid oxygen, isopropyl alcohol, and helium.

2) While Dick Rutan flew for us, his brother Burt had nothing to do with the project. Burt did design the airframe 20 years earlier.

3) Scaled Composites is our neighbor but had nothing to do with the project.

4) It was developed in 2001, retired in 2002, and flew in 2005 at the Xprize Cup.

[datzfast]

i met dick rutan 2o years ago in an oklahoma shopping mall. we talked for about an hour.

he was sanding on an aircraft just like the one

in this video. he was diong promotion work

scaled composites was the company.

[killroy7777]

Wow, Very cool, yet very dangerous, with all the compressed gasses, that things like a bomb lol

[SmiertSpionem]

Take off is way heavier and scarier than prop or jet planes. Once the fuel starts to bet burned up it gets lighter and easier to control.

[Membrane556]

Actually thats a bipropellant liquid oxygen alcohol rocket same fuels the German V2 used.

[scmcg]

Hydrogen Peroxide as rocket fuel is old as rocketry itself. It is not used widely, because H2O2 cannot be controled as savely as other fuels.

[drabshadspads]

very cool. but if the engine isn't as fuel efficent as a conventional jet engine or better, then you will never see it on our commercial planes because of the fat guy that sits on the top of the airline is to greedy.

[pete2778]

These experiments are being carried out with the intention of validating a practical alternative powerplant for the next generation of unlimited racing aircraft. They aren't performed with the intention of developing passenger aircraft propulsion. A lightweight racing aircraft powered by a rocket motor can devote a relatively large portion of its payload to fuel, airliners are bereft of this luxury!

[nutellajunkie]

sheer brilliance.. can someone please mail me the audio track name and creators please.

[rocketshadow]

The engines run on alcohol and liquid oxygen, not hydrogen peroxide. XCOR is not run by either Dick or Burt Rutan. XCOR is not part of Scaled Composites. We are competitors.

The EZ-Rocket is based on a fiberglass kit plane. We removed the piston engine and replaced it with two 400-lb thrust LOX/alcohol engines designed, built and tested by XCOR.

The plane is not a design for the next generation of Reno Racers.

[72jamminjimmy]

very awesome. Are you combusting the Hydrogen from the peroxide or using an aluminum reaction? Also I didn't hear any thrust when you landed it, are you running out of fuel and gliding in? At any rate looks like you are having a BLAST! AWESOME WORK AND VIDEO!! Thanks for posting it.

[261madmike]

Didn't the Germans in WWII use a similar fuel in thier rocket fighter plane.

[Florhusband]

Yes. The Me-163 used a bi-propellant engine with 80% H2O2 oxidizer and a mixture of methanol and other fuels. It was a dangerous plane to fly - read Wikipedia.

[eternalexpansion]

TOTALLY COOL!

[seacube3]

The EZ Rocket is based on a modified Long-Easy that was built in standard form with a reciprocating engine. It is standard GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) construction. While there is some Carbon Fiber in it, it is mostly aircraft grade "fiberglass." I don't remember the original owners name, but he then donated it to XCor Corporation for this proof-of-concept conversion. XCor then installed two of their 400 Lbs thrust Alcohol+LOX rocket engines into the airframe.

[Tpklmale]

I gotta get me one of THESE!

[samoht1977]

...so HHO gas is grabbing airplanes too... great thing, really.

[superhakujin]

Hydrogen Peroxide = H202; it's probably either a monopropellant being catalyzed by silver or platinum, or a bipropellant using kerosene or some other cheap hydrocarbon fuel.

[Fastcars56]

Top Speed

[magnetichaze]

cool

[TolgaSAN]

Great vehicle...

I always love rutan's this vari viggen...

Best light civil aeroplane ever-made!