Rocketry Videos

150 mm (6") sugar rocket CATO (2018-04-24)

150 mm KNSU sucrose rocket motor launch. Motor failed at the bulkhead resulting in a CATO. Friends of Amateur Rocketry test facility, Mojave Desert. [View]

2012 3-3 FAR Activities: Sugar motors, Recovery ejection test and a CATO (2012-03-05)

Paul Avery static tested three 38mm single use sugar motors, all successful. Hal Duffy did the first test of the drogue chute piston ejection as part of the recovery system being designed for the ... [View]

DoubleSShot BPS rocket motor test (2012-05-08)

Static test of the Aft section of the DoubleSShot BPS rocket motor on May 5th, 2012 at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in the Mojave Desert of California. Approximately 85 pounds (38 kg) of ... [View]

Experimental Rocket Guidance, Paul Breed (2013-02-05)

Paul Breed's experimental guidance project. Three Cesaroni K-motors were set in gimbals for vertical stabilization guidance control. Control ended when motor burn out complete. Test conducted at the ... [View]

FAR rocket testing hybrid and sugar motors (2010-12-05)

Hybrid and sugar rocket motors tested at the FAR facilities, Mojave Desert, California, 12-04-2010 [View]

Friends of Amateur Rocketry May 19, 2012 (2012-05-21)

Activities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site on Saturday, May 19, 2012. N2O nitrous oxide hybrid flight by CAL-POLY San Luis Obispo, a drogue deployment charge test by Hal Duffy for the ... [View]

Hybrid rocket motor 4-4-09 Rick Maschek & Jeff Jakob (2009-04-06)

Two hybrid motor tests, the first one using a "secret formula" fuel grain made by Jeff and a graphite/phenolic nozzle and the second test using the prototype motor we built in February and first ... [View]

Jeff Jakob 4" hybrid rocket motor test 12-04-2010 (2010-12-10)

Video of 4" hybrid rocket motor test at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) site in the Mojave Desert of California. Rocket used HTPB for fuel and nitrous oxide for the oxidizer. [View]

LDRS 29 'Odd Rocket' (2010-06-18)

This was my entry in the LDRS 29 "Odd Rocket" competition including slow motion. The 'rocket' was found along the road on my way home from the previous month's rocket launch. [View]

Mad Cow Super dx3 launch at FAR (2017-11-03)

Frank Pitoniak successful launch and recovery of a 4" Mad Cow Super dx3 rocket on a Cesaroni 38mm motor at the FAR facility October 7, 2017. [View]

NAR Level-II Cert Flight ROC Lucerne Valley 2012-08-11 (2012-08-12)

One of the students I am mentoring at Citrus College, Andrew Ferguson, Level-II NAR certification flight at Lucerne Valley during Rocketry Organization of California's monthly event. Our thanks to ... [View]

Separation of solid rocket boosters using exploding bolts on HPR (2010-12-12)

Demonstration of using 'explosive bolts' for the separation of solid rocket boosters (SRB) by Richard Dierking on high power rockets at the December 2010 monthly meeting of the Rocketry Organization ... [View]

Sugar Shot to Space DoubleSShot BP static test video cam #5 (2011-09-14)

This was the first test of the DoubleSShot motor in the Sugar Shot to Space project. The motor contained 160+ pounds of sugar/KNO3 rocket propellant with over 2,000 pounds of thrust, making it the ... [View]

Tripoli LDRS 29 odd rocket competition "My Spare Rocket" (2010-11-24)

I built this rocket for the Discovery Odd Rocket competition. It started with a much larger motor but I was trying to go to 100' to win the contest and went with a "H" motor that proved too small. ... [View]