Water Rocket and RC Plane
Hi everyone. I haven't made a vlog post for a while. Yesturday my friend from Canada, my dad, and I went to our water rocket launch site and launched off our water rocket, and flew a remote control plane. We fly the remote control plane first. The wing had been previously damaged and we had tried to fix it with duc tape. Unfortunatly this didn't work and when I tried turning the plane the force on the wing was too much and the plane lost control. After this we decided to try the water rocket. At first the water rocket didn't work. The rocket bound on the launch tube and couldn't take off. We decided that my dad should go home and get some oil so the rocket wouldn't bind on the launch tube and buy a new wing from the hobby shop for the rc plane. When he got back we launched the rocket. We were having trouble pumping up the rocket and were only able to get it to about 40 psi. The rocket launch and went about 200ft. in the air and backglided. Backgliding is when the rocket floats slowly down on it's side. After launching we figured out that one of the fittings on our launcher wasn't screwd in all the way and that's why we could get a very high pressure. On our second launch we fixed this problem and took the rocket to 60 psi. The rocket fly about 300ft. The rocket took off at an angle and began to backglide. Then when it was about 100ft off the ground it nose-dived into the earth. The rocket was damaged from the impact, however we put the rocket on the launcher and popped out the nose-cone, which had been crushed. We decided to do one more launch with only air and this time the rocket backglided. After this my friend and I took turns flying the rc plane. I flew it once then gave the controls to my friend. He flew the rocket with full throttle into the ground and the wing broke in two. On the way home we purchased a new wing. A video will be coming soon.





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