THE DEATH OF A V-2 ROCKET!

[PapaVic9758]

The next best thing to getting it all right is to blow shit up, so.... awesome!

[6669Anthrax]

acctully v2 rocket were in the size of 3 tiger tanks

[TheTruthHurtsYup]

Thank god it didn't have enough time to arm the nuke.......

[bearminator90]

Real v2 were much much muuuuuch bigger.

[pewtoobe]

It sure looked bigger on the launch pad.

[Jayc2592]

Damn who wanted to see an explosion at 0:48?

[TNMinuteMan]

"Vell, back to da drawing voard!" No in all seriousness, you guys did a good job, this is one of the better V-2 launch copies that ive seen and at the end of the day, nobody got hurt.

[kikflipguy101]

actually to those people who dont know why they were firing rockets at that event, it was a rocket competetion

[kingspunkbubble]

01:04 Holding back spectators fail

[mmaaxx1198]

WvB would be proud!

[basimpsn]

Question can a model turbine engine with a thrust rate of 5 to 1 use instead of rocket engine?, Because you really not going out of the earth atmosphere.

[guyfootballfan]

How in god name would fire a rocket with so many people that close?????

[kffive]

@guyfootballfan RIGHT! "Let's get real close" Rocket ROCK, but.....

[JTravis]

Guess somebody on the outskirts of the crowd was speaking with an English accent and it did what came naturally, eh?

[Fabianzandt]

Das passiert wenn Amis versuchen deutsche Qualität nachzubauen :D

[scoutforpenny]

Open ended eyebotls are a bad idea in hi power!!

[shumble32]

They are allowed to fire rockets of this size .at public events? - amazing

[sopues]

What were they thinking?

[fahrenheit455]

No doubt, the "Führer" took over.

[D4RKBRU73]

LMAO :P

[Ruychaven]

Why the hell was the countdown in German?

[JackDanielsFTW]

@Ruychaven maybe because it's a german rocket?

[MisterDanLorth]

@Ruychaven agreed. stupid.

[w5cdt]

Need to wear a hardhat to that event!

[2448damian]

thts got to suck

[SaleneDark]

aww, we missed london....

[bummwummn]

invented in 1944, and still hunting for Allies, even as a modell...

Don't think you can take a German death machine an turn it into a little toy, it's still thirsty for blood xD

[chopchop1980]

Was this made from a kit or homebuilt?

[EEEL123]

Looks a bit small for a V2.

[maurifuentescid]

still causing damage and terror xD

[Kreisliga1000]

damn parachute...lol

[Rocketryman]

No biggie. A little CA and you are back in business. :-)

[r0ckt3hc4sb4h]

I remember hearing a story once from a guy who was sitting on top of his RV filming this, directly under the flight path. He said through the viewfinder of his camera it looked like a black dot that just kept getting bigger...and bigger...and bigger...

[edwinshap1]

way too long of a burn. should've been an m2400 or so might've saved it :(

[zazfilm]

@edwinshap1 too bad you werent there to save the day

[poppopscarvinshop]

Dammit!

[DjAotaka]

poor v2... he was innocent :(

[JDrockerDUDE]

@jonalululy wrong.

[JimTLonW6]

"Once the rockets are up

Who cares where they come down?!"

...

Says Werner von Braun!

(Tom Lehrer)

[jennyjoans2]

SOOOOOOO COOOOL!!!! I wish my rockets left that much of a trail and didnt go so fast

[PushTheFat]

OH GOD THE HUMANITYYYYYYYYYY

[sadruberducky]

made in the usa ?

[7249xxl]

short range missile?

[treejerk]

A classic scud trajectory

[mrv2rocketman]

what is he counting down in german?

[Lodifice]

@mrv2rocketman numbers from 10 - 1^^

[aSneakyPairofPants]

if thats a reall v2 rocket that must be a prototype V2 were pretty big roughly the size of a small bus considering they were the germans version of our A bomb

[vlassakj]

@aSneakyPairofPants The germans version of our A bomb ? In what way ?

[nsawilla]

@vlassakj

no nuke at all! it was actually the first ballistic (and guided!) missile with larger range! but it was a conventional one, nothing nuclear

[rifleman1002]

@nsawilla Too bad back then it killed more Germans than the Allies.

[oper12m]

Looks like a V-2 in the early days!!

[cool5tuff]

i saw myself at 1:03 =D i was about 9 years old when that happened

[ParaglidingManiac]

V-2 just loves to get some revenge after all those years :)

[edwinshap1]

definitely a failed cluster launch. looked nice though while it was goin up

[fartanyone]

BEAUTIFUL LOOKING ROCKET! I was watching it, and at the beginning I was thinking to myself "Now that'd be a VERY cool Civil Air Patrol activity to go to, and sure enough right after I said that I saw 2 people in uniform!" HOORAH CAP, from Oregon Wing!

[101andrewj]

and thats why nasa uses the abort feature

[kasra111]

looks like it was aiming for England!:))

[pipercubsrcool]

wow that sucks cool looking rocket though (go Civil Air Patrol)

[temujin0911]

are model rockets allowed to have gyros? Not for guidance but just to make sure it stays upright during flight.

[jimmywrangles]

Extremely awesome work.

Thanks for the upload,I wash I had of been there as model rocketry is a hobby of mine.

[JDrockerDUDE]

two words. uner, powered!

[wdude100]

@JDrockerDUDE If i remember correctly, this was a cluster rocket, and one of the motors failed to ignite. That was probably why it went ballistic.

[LegacyBenJVEVO]

@wdude100 probably why. It was too heavy most likely and apogee was reached at a top speed soo yeah.

[4FunPlayin]

noobs

[kukubird92]

is v2 really beter than usa missile ?!?!? like jerico missile ?

[TheMariaQ]

Would that qualify as a scale flight?

[Topaz233]

Heh. Neat to find this video. I was there. The thing flew about 200 feet over my head about the time the nose cone came off. It's a 1/3rd-scale model V-2 (still BIG!). What happened (as was told at the time) was that the launch lugs caught on the launch tower rail. The motors were powerful enough to rip the launch tower off it's mount and that's what caused the rocket to tilt as it took off. At that point, it's pure ballistics. Ouchie.

[Mr41432]

@Topaz233 i think you're right it does seem that the rocket tilts toward the tower as it takes offf which suggests that the rocket did get caught on the rail

[battossai1]

next time hit the moon

[platterhof]

Looks like V-2 was doing a grrreat job hehe, he was searching for allies!

[Eleanorfan1992]

Please tell me this was NOT an original one from the World War two period.

[areafortyone]

All I heard was OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH Shit !

[skipstalforce]

very realistic!

[peekabooikillu]

well, it did what a v2 rocket was meant to do.

[mandomaniac99]

I remember this one. My 10 year son retrieved a 9 volt battery from the wreckage. It was completely ripped apart. He still has it. It was a close call for the spectators.

[thegafferlives]

Incredibly dangerous.

[mloula]

My 3 year old said "aww look at the doggies holding the rocket ship up" lol

[discrepancy666]

Why do they count in german?

[unclesara]

It's a model of a german rocket.

[nerys71]

@discrepancy666 because its a GERMAN ROCKET of course :-)

[ReliableSunPower]

I love the sheer panic and commotion. Awesome video.

[miniatureme95]

looks like it was tilted at launch

R.I.P.

[LegacyBenJVEVO]

@miniatureme95 doesent matter. It will still go straight its the fins and wind and stability and placement of the motor mounts and all that jazz that make it do that crazy stuff. Rocket science isnt that complicated.

[rocketman581]

This launch was at LDRS 20 around the year 2000 in California ... from what I understood, this was a cluster and one of the 4 or 5 engines did not fire. Without the last engine, the rocket did not have enough thrust to lift the rocket with stability (thrust to weight under 3).

There was a chance that the rocket could have stabilized once enough fuel was burned, (thereby reducing weight) but after the rocket reached a certain angle it was too late.

I think the rocket was nearly 300 lbs ..

[emj0001]

Looked way underpowered. Maybe it was a cluster and not all the motors lit?

[JDrockerDUDE]

why do people find explosions in rockets cool? rockets dont explode unless they cato people!!! and a missle, and rocket are different lol ok.

[nerys71]

@JDrockerDUDE for the same reason nascar fans love seeing the wrecks. :-)

[Omnigeek6]

A landshark and a stripped chute. Judging by how slowly it took off, the motor didn't have anywhere near enough thrust to lift the rocket safely.

[jmar1371]

Correct. That rocket was 300 pounds on the pad.

That bird had two M's and two K's. Only got one of the M's to light. Off axis thrust killed it. Accelerometers need to see a shift in the G's during flight. Doesn't happen with an elliptical flight trajectory like that.

Missed a $150,000 motor home by about 200 feet.

Calling London!

[BlueStateChronicle]

I love those rocket people. When I was a kid, I caught a field on fire with one lauch.

[guitarcapo]

"That thing blew up!"

LOL

[danielisgreat42]

it wouldve been funnier if a huge explosion rose over the tents

but still good vid :D

[ReliableSunPower]

It looked just like WWII footage.

[civildefense]

Very good video. What is the size of this model V2?

[andy187inc]

all you need is a explosion!!!

[zebilicious12]

take an eye out with that thing

[VMFA115Starloric]

An eye?

How bout a tank?

[dajgill]

v2 are stel trying to kill

[DTHRocket]

Hey, what kind of motor would you say that was? Looked like an N or O motor.

[vostok0457]

well it sure acted like a true german V2, even von broun lost many V2's that way...

[AerotechMan101]

electronic failure, the chute came out way early

[DNanook]

Absolutely incredible and positively scary.