500lbf Rocket Engine Testing

[karrar272]

Put in this on Ferarri

[TheDragonoxx]

Im assuming it isnt just the average store bought isopropyl alcohol, the 70% kind.

[bbrockert]

@TheDragonoxx It's 99.9% anhydrous isopropyl. Still the same chemical, and the engine would run on 70%, though at a lower level of performance.

[JuryDutySummons]

@bbrockert You can buy 99% stuff at the store... does that extra .9% make that much of a difference?

[JuryDutySummons]

@bbrockert I guess it hardly matters... if your buying liquid Oxygen... might as well go all-out with 99.9% alcohol!

[roygbiv330]

how much did it cost per 1 test?

[viperdude281]

OMG i turned the volume up because i thought that i just could hear the sound and them PPHHEEEWWWWWWW blown speakers...

[bannanaz1997]

how hot??

[Leutchik]

What was the delivered specific impulse here?

[MUSTPLAYIT]

thats a good soldering iron

[josephdupont]

So how many pounds would the total unit weigh? I'd love to make my own x-1

[DemonHunter2k7]

it's that the sound isnt sync or your are recording very far away

[rainerfilm]

sync your sound.

[kobasica]

do you work with solid rocket motors also?

[IGOR025007]

LOLOL



[ManOfMeans]

Looks like a miniature

[xxckwxx]

There is something about this video that looks like stop animation.

[ethergear]

pound foot, a unit of energy or work

the equivalent SI unit is the newton meter aka joule

[dragsster31]

deu um aroto no final kkk.

[syafiqdell]

thats fake...

[hboy007]

I'd really like to hear your arguments for this unfunded statement ;-)

[ChesterDoraemon]

pretty sad that with all that fire and smoke i can squat more than that rocket engine lol!!!

[JaycubL]

I think that's per square foot not 240 lb total.

[monimstarfox]

lol than maybe you want to be the new propulsion system for the space shuttle?

[RathaSlayer]

I believe it stands for pund force(discription)

[Thefirstspectra]

That was fucking incredible!!!!!!turn your sound up

that's pretty close too?

[shizlnit]

TO MARS!!!

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

Do you work on these rockets and what are these going to be used for?Cool video.I hope you guys are making commercial space travel soon lol :)

[bbrockert]

Yep, rocket science is my day job. We're working first toward launching suborbital payloads into space (100kg to 100km) and possibly flying people later.

[TheCHUCKY1992]

@bbrockert thats so cool bring me just kidding but sounds really awesome I only launch model rockets

[2004acurarsx]

poor metal plate

[bbrockert]

It's actually concrete blocks that are getting toasted. The engine will burn through a metal plate much faster.

[jeetendrag10]

@bbrockert the support for the concrete plate looks unsteady..the place where the diagonal plate joins the I beam support structure.

it looks quite flimsy.

[scasey1960]

Great!! Thanks for sharing!