X Port Rocket Launcher Test

I hacked the X Port on the HobbyZone Firebird Freedom. I plan on using it to launch a model rocket instead of some lame plastic bomb with a streamer.

More info at http://www.pasqualy.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Hobbyzone
• X
• Port
• RC
• airplane
• rocket
• hack

[spoiledworm]

just wondering,

would magnesium work??

[cybrown]

Magnesium has to get pretty hot to ignite, I'm not sure how much current it would take for what gauge wire etc.

I think hobby igniters use nichrome wire with some other combustible material surrounding it. Magnesium might be part of that mix.

Steel wool works great too.

[downwith]

would this work on other Xport equiped hobbyzone planes?

[cybrown]

as far as I know yes, all of the Xport equiped aircraft use the same waveform.

[OriMedian]

is the thing that exploded the rocket that should be launched or does the burst shoot the rocket forward?

[cybrown]

Oh its just a firecracker. I didn't want to waste a rocket fuse, but I wanted to scare the crap out of my wife, and it worked. :)

[ponchoyo]

enjoyed your evil laugh

[cptInternet]

The manic laugh of a mad genius.

[a100nick]

hay you can make money by making them for the standerd reciver but use the element form the toaster

[Hampalainen96]

How have you built the ignition?

[glenncol55]

That was one psycho laugh dude

[justgorun123]

Can i buy from you ?

[MrPyroman96]

evil laugh :D

[Starr8492DS]

What the point in xport what does it do ?

[mattbiker78]

mad man! I like it!!!

[skinengine]

That was great!

[kinc128]

wow what a laught..