Great concept. A few more tweaks and weight in the nose and it'll fly better. I used to have a space shuttle model that would launch using those Estes rocket engines, had a lot of fun with it till I launched it one day and wind carried it out to the highway where it got hit by a semi-truck and poof it was gone LOL. Something like this would be a good father/son shop time experience for many I think. I have a CO2 bicycle tire inflator, they pack quite the power...enough to fully inflate both tires on my bicycle.

A lot of labor for a few seconds of pure joy. But, I would say it was worth it! Terrific! Thank you for sharing!

tbh I'm surprised you did not get more likes.

I like the launching mechanism and the co2 cartridge usage, the rest could easily be improved but i like the approach very much!!!!

That was truly amazing you were really creative in building your Saturn V thanks for sharing this with us

Napoleon once said "Imagination rules the world." Just amazing! Big congrats! Thank you for sharing!

I was thinking about making a rocket and thought co2 would be a great fuel source so I searched it up and saw this video it's a good build and an amazing video thanks for letting me know it's possible as well.

Nice try. As an advice I'd recommend balsa wood for the wings. #3 wings will work fine. Make them a bit taller so their base so they are standing out a bit further. Light weight and thin so it does not have so much resistance and does not make it go in all directions instead of straight up. Also I should make the tube some what longer. Just a straight cilindrical one with pointy head will do fine.

Fun fact: the Saturn V was designed, and manufactured in the Great State of Alabama! My State. I'm 19, from B'ham, AL. Cheers, Buddy! Nice work. 🇺🇸

Genius! I might do this cuz i saw co2 canisters in a baking shop and i did not know it was that cheap.

pro tip from airsoft ,Co2 gas blow back airsoft guns lose pressure in winter due to the fact that Co2 loses pressure in colder environments ,do this same test in the dead of summer and the results will be way better.

Hi Drew. I'd like to share why this rocket design tumbles out of control rather than fly in a straight trajectory. It has to do with the center of gravity and center of pressure. The way that this rocket is designed, the CG is behind the CP, which causes the rocket to want to spin around the CG as it is propelled. For a rocket to be stable, the CG should be in front of the CP by a distance larger than the diameter of the body at its largest diameter. The simplest way to move the CG forward is to add weight to the nose cone. The simplest way to move the CP backward is to have fins with larger surface area. Besides these recommendations, I'd suggest using a single CO2 cartridge to start with, and then experiment with clusters of two and three. Best wishes, John.

You are so talented I love watching your videos!

As everyone is saying - you need some nose weight. Just adding some modelling clay might be enough. You could probably cut quite a bit of weight by only having the engine mount and nose foam, and using cardboard body tubes. But I do get that you were going for the aesthetic look and foam would make it practically indestructible! Nice build!

You can improve max. altitude by adding some nose weight. Notice that the center of gravity is too close to the tail fins. You can see it when landing, vehicle touches the ground with it's tail, when its soposed to fall nose diveing. Nice experiment.

Nice build, I made a water rocket launcher with the same amount of fun factor, yet (as suggested before) look into COG and Pont of attack for wind resistance of your build, The COG should be ahead of the wind resistance attack point to fly straight (but then It‘ll land nose first, maybe this isn‘t too much appreciated…)

Amazing work my friend

that is so cool! thums up!

You are sick dude 🥰 , I love all what you have build, I'm your new fans from Indonesia 🇮🇩

This is awesome! Do you have building instructions for the launchpad assembly?

With conventional model rockets we always attempt to have the center of gravity at least one body diameter in front of the center of pressure. You need nose weight or bigger fins.

Cool rocket🚀

I remember working with my dad and while using one of those canisters for a blowout gun I had this idea

Great stuff

good rocket!

Nice video 👍🏻

awesome sauce

That was fun

Hi ! What is that pink foam called ? What type of foam is it ?

Put some thrust limiting nozzles on those things, and put in some nitrogen (maybe through the straw) to really make it go boom.

WAIT! Improper CG and NO PARACHUTE! 😁😱🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇸

trim your fins to be more aerodynamic and give one side of each fin just a bit more girth. You want the rocket to spin to take advantage of centripetal force

You have to lower the nails I. The first 2 punctures so that all 4 puncture at the same time that’s why it’s curving

WOW !!! That was a brilliant design, the rocket & the launcher. One of your fellow Canadians will be giving you a call, REAL SOON, his first name is Elon. Thanks for the interesting video.

Needs way more nose weight to get the cg in front of the cp and achieve stable flight.

awesome I was wondering how you would puncture them

Youre like Elon Musk. He also reuses his rockets. Happy to subscribe. This looks like fun.

nuild an ironman suite from a box of scraps. lol

Should go on the Safety Third podcast for sure

just foun you buy accident . love your stuff mate

Should have painted it to look like a Black Brant. Only indigenous Canadian space agency rocket.

Would if fly better with weight in the front?

I built a similar rocket using an aluminum tube with a "dip tube" held 1/4" away from the inside of the tip cone, 1/2-filled with liquid propane and held against a rubber seal with a yoke, which was attached to a "launch" string. It had 3 aluminum fins heliarced to the base and went up about a mile, but DON'T try this, because radar picks it up as a possible weapon.

CENTER OF GRAVITY IS TO FAR BACK, THATS WHY AFTER LIFT OFF IT STARTS CART WHEELING ITS ASS HEAY FIND THE CENTER OF GRAVITY AN SHE'LL DO WAY BETTER!. COOL VIDEO EITHER WAY!. .L.O.L..

Not showing how you released the pressure to lift off

If you launched it in the summertime The CO2 canisters would have more power.

NASA has their eye on you 😂

front head is so light

Add nose weight...not a lot a little will do....it will go high and straight

GENIUS

2 grand!? 🤯

maybe its way too lite

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What don’t you do?!

6:35 Better than spacex! hahahahahahahaha

Just think of how much CO2 you just released into the environment!! It was trapped in the cartridges and away from the environment and you let it into the atmosphere to pollute!!!

Why not try filling those cartridges with sugar rocket fuel instead of using c O2. Another thing why did you do this in the winter time when you need the warm CO2 cartridges to work more efficiently

Ok so you won’t win any rocketry contest with that but it was a lot of fun. Maybe stick to dog houses where you really shine! Thumbs up!