Rippin' The Fins Off A Rocket

The Fins Shred off a 12 foot tall high power rocket flying on an N motor. It exceeds the fins ability to hold up. The fins waive at you, bend around and then fly off in real time as the rocket continues to thrust away.

From BoosterVision

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• crash
• shred
• rocket
• air
• mach
• high
• speed

[journeyquest1]

Should have made the fins more rigid and secure. Ive seen this happen before. Nice video.

[aaupton]

Hi, Originally it was not designed to exceed mach and that is the reason tip-to-tip was not done on the fins. See comments from a few years ago. The motor did better then expected so this was the result.. Have fun !

[53rockets]

cool! so did u do this with a video-camera submitting LIVE video feed to the ground or is this camera different??

[aaupton]

@53rockets Hi,

This camera is one of our live feeds.

Art

[WHFilmsAndProduction]

The aerodynamic term is 'flutter'. Nice example of transonic effect.

[aaupton]

Yes correct Flutter,

But flutter does not work on youtube search as well as "rippin' fins" ;)

[tjthev]

Enjoyed watching the launch but not the disasterous end.

[Geoffr524]

Right after I saw what looked like sky writing, by the out-of-control rocket, it said "Enter your Text here". Funny stuff.

[mugsytop]

that was nice fin flutter.

[shollys9]

Yep, Core Samples SUCK!

[viperf50]

To Bad it didnt spell, ILL GET YOU MY PRETTY!

lol

[n7275]

Max Q

[rebsunrise]

Excellent