Dr. Pepper Can Two-Staged Rocket launch

My dad built this Dr. Pepper can rocket using the two engines that didn't light in the Trifecta. (I had to forcibly remove them with pliers since the glue dried and we didn't trust them in a real rocket.)

The engines were 2x A8-3.

It launched but obviously wasn't stable -- flipping end-over-end in the air. At the time we thought the second stage ignited, but that was just the ejection charge of the first stage.

Also we know a staged rocket should have a 0 second delay but we were mainly just using up the rockets we didn't trust.

So sorry about my daughter crying in the background -- she wanted to climb down to me but it wasn't safe.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• model
• rocket
• staged
• fail
• failure
• estes
• dr
• pepper
• soda
• can

[torofighter]

you should have fashioned a nose cone for that, and attached the can rocket to a long stick, and launch it out of a steel pipe. I still loved it though :)

[blakejr]

A stick would have been a good idea, though it probably could've done without the nose cone (or with a stick wouldn't need the can!) Alas, I was not the rocket engineer for this project. Still fun!

[BaddaBigBoom]

Yes! -advanced littering !

[TheArmyKid999]

thats kool

[CarbineBrothers]

And we have spalsh down....

[rEdf196]

Staging and Ignition.........Neil Armstrong.

[tubefed420]

Thats looks like a fun project. 

[maxerik9901]

fail

[tehw000000t]

THAT'S KERBAL

[rdfox76]

Good safe way to dispose of the failed motors!

[Postie218]

now go get it

[JustinBlottin]

OH! Why couldn't I have thought of that in my chemistry class in highschool!

[2011MusicProduction]

is that Oregon? I recognize that place...

[SniperPIKACHU]

More like dual stage mortar......