XCOR XR-4K14 "Rocket Racer" engine

[fusionstar916]

oo kerosene... thats what my lantern uses :D

[hogey74]

Cool - and its using almost the same fuel as jet aircraft? NIce!

[rocketplumber]

Nope, it's just straight kerosene fuel, no additives. The plume is so bright that it's painful to view it without sunglasses, a camera just doesn't capture the dynamic range. With sunglasses and two layers of tinted glass (looking through a car), you can see the shock diamonds clearly, but they are washed out in every video.

By the way, that's my voice doing the countdown, I was the console operator for the first series of tests on this engine.

[SmiertSpionem]

I read they add a certain extra ingredient to the alcohol powered engine so it glows yellow for effect, possibly sodium.

[crankyanker157]

sweet

[lovelaughcool]

weird