Brushless R/C ROCKET Vertical Landing SpaceX Style

Brushless R/C ROCKET Vertical Landing SpaceX Style - RCTESTFLIGHT

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5 жыл бұрын

Video #2 of this project: • Brushless R/C ROCKET V...
Its hard not to be inspired by seeing a giant rocket fall out of space and land gently on the ground. I wanted to achieve the same thing with small scale, and using a brushless motor in place of a pyrotechnic rocket motor makes it much easier.
My longer-term goal with this project is to make a rocket capable of carrying a GoPro type camera to high altitudes, falling back to earth, then landing in a controlled fashion. The rocket in this video could carry a camera and preform perfect landings but it wasn't efficient enough to reach high altitudes.
I'm already working on the next version, so stay tuned and subscribe!

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@TomStantonEngineering 5 жыл бұрын

Nice one Daniel! Cool to see the small props in the top working so well to simulate the gas thrusters. It will be interesting to see how grid fins would work with this design, if you choose to test them. Just a shame these mini quad motors/props hate to be ducted. I think the setup I used was measured at 1.5kg of thrust, but could only just lift the 400g 'rocket' at full throttle. Look forward to the next one!!

@rctestflight 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom! And thanks for the inspiration! My next design uses a gimbaling motor on the top for attitude control, but I would like to experiment with grid fins/thruster motors again in the future. The duct inefficiency is indeed a bummer. I might try a profile body with my next one. Won't look amazing but oh well.

@RCLoversan 5 жыл бұрын

Ducting those propellers is not a great idea, because the motor loses a lot of thrust. Using this design you can't even add a proper solid fuel model rocket engine. As a result, you create something that is definitely not a rocket. Please take a look at my Rocket Drone... ready to be 3D printed (having some funds).

@Specter0420 5 жыл бұрын

Did you guys ever consider using a proper Electric Ducted Fan? I know they are heavier, require more RPMs, and may provide less static thrust than a naked prop but, you are putting a prop in a tube on an electric motor. That is what they are designed for. Something the size you will need is 3D printable. There is plenty online about making them. Incorporating a proper airfoil duct could help with natural stability too.

@RCLoversan 5 жыл бұрын

@@Specter0420 Being a "rocket" (even if in this case there isn't any combustion of its content), I believe that keeping an eye on weight, should be a priority. Therefore, the ducted fan motors are not the best choise (in my humble opinion).

@rctestflight 5 жыл бұрын

@@Specter0420 I think there would still be a large efficiency loss from sucking a ton of air through a tube with lots of drag in it (batteries, servos, wires, structure, etc).

@Chevan2008 5 жыл бұрын

You definetelly one of the best RC-engineering pioneer on the youtube!!

@TobiasLeininger 5 жыл бұрын

The pioneering work has been done by flight control software programmers during the last 15 years ... now it's easy to just use that.

@nicolegardner1710 5 жыл бұрын

Go look up Peter Stripol.

@heyitsmejm4792 5 жыл бұрын

@Pretty fly for a WiFi NO U

@amachalaamachalpu9366 3 жыл бұрын

it still just a multirotor with beta flight nothing special

@Bermudakid 4 жыл бұрын

Should launch it with two solid stage model boosters on the side. Then recover it landing!

@MrLiquimatter 5 жыл бұрын

Lol, Clipped in a space X crash with your sound!

@redsquirrelftw 5 жыл бұрын

That was great lol.

@dylanw.4533 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve watched it 15 times

@MikeAlano 2 жыл бұрын

Daniel is the best kind of nerd that I want to be friends with for the rest of my life

@thesnitch7 5 жыл бұрын

It’s facinating ? To hear someone talk ? In the form of questions ? All the time ? Fun project as usual!

@AClarke2007 5 жыл бұрын

Try having two thrust motors in the Tube (one at each end), but at the top use Ducts to control the vacuum entering. Similar to having Thrusters, just in reverse (hopefully, no one will notice the direction of air). Possibly use compressed air too, initially, to save on Battery. Also, make a shroud out of thin batteries to go around the main tube.

@ericdamexican 5 жыл бұрын

Yes please! More of this intriguing project!!

@rahul53885 4 жыл бұрын

This is by far the best self landing homemade rocket I've seen

@JakeBiddlecome 5 жыл бұрын

This is the most stable prop 'rocket' i've seen yet. At first I thought there must be a string running up through the tube in the first trials. Really nice work.

@lasersbee 5 жыл бұрын

Great results... That's the best flying R/C Rocket attempt I've seen to date.

@paulwinterscheidt 3 жыл бұрын

I love it. RC has come a long way in the past 30 years. It's truly amazing!

@autisticguitar666 5 жыл бұрын

This is the rctestflight I subscribed to a few years ago.

@ronbradshaw7404 4 жыл бұрын

Out of everyone trying to do this cheaply and nicely, you are the one my money was on!. Daniel could fly a Juke Box if he wanted to!.

@jwtfpv8957 5 жыл бұрын

Try retractable landing gear for the next one. :)

@privatebubba8876 5 жыл бұрын

Static landing gear to save weight.

@scottsarchitecturehildebra1761 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic, thanks!!!

@youngmiko7944 5 жыл бұрын

Man that second run really was perfect. Very cool project. Would love to see bigger and better versions. Nice job 👍

@davidGrainger 2 жыл бұрын

That's funny with the tiny electric motor sound on the big rocket crash and burn!

@harryhathaway1086 5 жыл бұрын

What a brain. I messed around with RC when I was younger but I do not have the mentality or brains to do stuff like this guy. A huge sums up for your ingenuity👍

@gilperon 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Simply amazing. Congrats!

@oldflyingman7581 5 жыл бұрын

Great result! What a pleasure to see you improve this each in his own way. Congratulations!

@goofyfoot2001 5 жыл бұрын

I wasn't the least bit impressed that a Space-x rocket could land vertical. I am more impressed that it didn't run out of fuel.

@wsc112782 5 жыл бұрын

One thing your design has going for it is mass up high, kind of like balancing a broom on the palm of your hand. That's why it was able to fly so well with just the bottom motor. The top thrusters do help it pull out of the fall once it's gone sideways, but it would still be cool to try gridfins.

@19rocket64 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic stability..cool to see it correcting for torque n p-factor

@Name-js5uq 4 жыл бұрын

Wow man your videos are really really awesome! I love the fact that you pack in a lot of different trials so we can really see the difference! That is extremely helpful. Anyway I just wanted to tell you I love your videos and all your hard work that you put into making them.I know through editing and everything else setting up the cameras etc it must take you a long long time to produce these. Anyway just letting you know that people do notice your hard work.

@jaycustom2179 5 жыл бұрын

Watch out for this dude in the future. The next rocket Genius....

@alanmcrae8594 5 жыл бұрын

Nice build! Enjoyed watching her fly.

@M4T1J4P0 5 жыл бұрын

Oh my gawd, fingers and open props, moving so fast, sooo cloooose. Great rocket and video.

@rarbiart 5 жыл бұрын

the crash with the low batteries looked astonishing realistic.

@AddyOverbeeke 4 жыл бұрын

Try replacing the prop/motors with EDFs that have outlet nozzle flush to the outside diameter of the fuselage and inlet ducts flush-mounted with openings in the nose cone. You could also use a gyro to stabilize the flight, not the sensor gyros but and actual gyro that has mass enough to keep the fuselage fixed once up to speed before take-off.

@mattfranks4335 5 жыл бұрын

Flying cars can't be too far off now . You build one !!! Yeah come on flying car next please .

@ohutchie 3 жыл бұрын

Damn dude it's crazy how similar this looks to the Starship hops!

@superwelder24 5 жыл бұрын

Who else when clicking the video expected it to be a real SpaceX project?

@ToddLarsen 5 жыл бұрын

This is really amazing what you did! I can see this leading to something even cooler in the future great job! Thanks for sharing and as always Keep Building👍

@greg0063 5 жыл бұрын

Great project, I would really like to see a basic single copter design. What components, FC, servos, etc and what program to use. That seemed to hover great on the lower part alone, and yes to bumble around the yard would be pretty fun.

@dorsai 5 жыл бұрын

Looked pretty cool, thanks for sharing with the rest of us.

@MichaelVanBladel 4 жыл бұрын

make it autonomous! I'd love to see that thing fly waypoint missions somehow :D

@luongmaihunggia 5 жыл бұрын

*Tom Staton wants to know your location*

@merxellus1456 5 жыл бұрын

BPS too

@janeEriley Жыл бұрын

Park City, UT

@andreferro4618 3 жыл бұрын

You have my respect! Greetings from Brazil.

@harshavardhan2168 5 жыл бұрын

Buld spaceshuttle style virtical takoff and glide back safely..or simply tilt rotor crafts...you are dam good at these builds.

@QuickCookie 5 жыл бұрын

The snow geese in the background are beautiful!

@MarcStollmeyer 5 жыл бұрын

If you add a separating payload at the top you can have a high CG for accent and a low CG for decent. I’d recommend adding a second (counter-rotating) motor at the bottom so the fins can focus just on pitch and yaw, plus that gives you a higher thrust to weight and you can put higher pitch props on it.

@Benth3rdoneth4t 5 жыл бұрын

You should make a hybrid rocket next. Make it go up using an E or G size model rocket motor, and come down using the stabilizing propellers with an A size model rocket motor to slow it down :)

@toddanonymous5295 4 жыл бұрын

NASA will be calling this lad

@Theycallmeernie88 5 жыл бұрын

This was amazing! Great job! What if you 3d print the shroud with ports for the air to have a specific flow? First from the nose to the side props and then out the side. Then the main one at the bottom have it's own intakes and main output down the bottom.

@ShawnsPlace 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent work Daniel! Love the warehouse. I like your idea of removing the top props and relying just on the bottom hardware to control the craft. The plastic cone like you said added too much weight. Am excited to see the next one. Another idea is you could mount the top motors flush out the sides so the props are flush with the outer tube. 2 blade props would probably be more efficient than the 3 blade ones. You would only need 3 motors to keep the top of the rocket stable.

@Randomname183 5 жыл бұрын

Where are you working? Looks like a cool place!

@MrZomhad 5 жыл бұрын

Think he works at Freeflight (indeed looks freaking cool!)

@David.-_- 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is legit. Love it

@Clegg. 5 жыл бұрын

That was fascinating as hell, great job dude!

@stevenclarke804 5 жыл бұрын

Ive been watching you make and fly stuff for many years, you are a smart young man, its refreshing to see young minds working, and experimenting, and having fun with Imagineering, keep it up you'll go far in life!

@QImpact 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice test flight. Looking forward to seeing you test out grid fins (hint, hint). What would be really interesting to see is a conventional chemical first stage, and then landing with your thruster motor.

@MarkHahn 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool video. Some ppl dont understand the technical challenges here. Awesome! Kinda gives you a view into the future of RC capabilities.

@stantrucker1150 5 жыл бұрын

exceptionally stable! Great job.

@davidebo7151 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing the rocket without the nosecone remind me of SNs 5 & 6 150m hop. Great content! Subbed.

@Jeffe46M 5 жыл бұрын

I love watching your project videos... you truly are a mad RC scientist haha

@bobhawkey3783 4 жыл бұрын

Just a thought - and trust me, I have no idea what I'm talking about - what if you had a threaded rod with a weight on it that could be moved up and down to change the cg just by spinning the rod. This stuff is so cool. Love your videos, great work.

@AlymerKiteboy 4 жыл бұрын

That workshop!!! 😳😍

@5c0u53 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome project you have going :) looks like its going to be tons of fun hammering out the tiny issues. Maybe use two motors for thrust that counter rotate and then use the vectoring for stability.

@LA6UOA 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing, Daniel!

@petepete2284 3 жыл бұрын

Ya can,t beat the rocketness of rockets. This is flying a tube upright. still cool.

@lukekimble715 5 жыл бұрын

I lost this channel and just found it again. Avoiding the same mistake by remembering to subscribe! Any time I'm having an engineering "writer's block" of sorts, I come here. Always innovative, always inspiring. Keep the content coming, the buffet line's only getting longer.

@mrfourtysevenman 5 жыл бұрын

Very respectable results. You should be surprised

@VTOLKits 3 жыл бұрын

Great project! Thumb up!

@mccc4559 5 жыл бұрын

You're a little older now than years ago when I first started learning from your wisdom, but I am still very proud of you as all your viewers should be.

@AtlantaTerry 5 жыл бұрын

Why would a person's age matter?

@mccc4559 5 жыл бұрын

@@AtlantaTerry My apologies.....it was not my intention to make it an "age thing." I received your message and read my comment again......now it is obvious how my original comment can be misunderstood. Please allow me to explain for my sake and out of respect for you. You see, I've been fortunate to have been learning from this young man since he was just a young boy. Over the years he has matured into quite a gentleman with an incredible future. My message above was meant as a compliment (for example "I am proud of you) but I didn't want to make it sound like I am writing to a little boy....so I stated "you're older...." The point is that I should have clarified and written something along the lines of "you have aged quickly yet gracefully over the years with such wisdom and sincerity....if I say I am proud of you then it is intended in a very mature way" instead of when you say it to a very young person...where it is intended more as a "good job kiddo".....I hope this clarified things a little for you.....maybe you're his dad or uncle or relative..... I hope you will reply.

@brianclose8636 4 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend putting the upper motors on the outside and putting in air channels with intakes near the middle for the lower motor.

@rcexpfpv481 5 жыл бұрын

Hey I've been planning a similar project but with actual motor rockets ! Cool to see more things like this

@NickSmith-hv9zi 3 жыл бұрын

I would put rocket fins. Wouldn't do much but at least I'll look more like a rocket. Very well done. Congrats..

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome project Daniel. Interesting to hear about your experiences with the body shroud inefficiencies.

@jeffreyjuliano2835 5 жыл бұрын

9:00 minutes

@Objectivityiskey 5 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! I can't wait to see where this goes. Do you have a 360 cam to mount on top? Could you adapt the gps fly home in betaflight to get your rocket back to the starting location?

@FAA-DPE 5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding man! you have renewed my hopes in the young Generations that are coming up...

@cosmefulanito5933 2 жыл бұрын

Cute drone in the form of a rocket.

@Aeroworks540 5 жыл бұрын

seems like you could use much small motors horizontally on the top just for the inital kick to straight. then figure out how to get more power out of the bottom one. I wonder if you could stack 2 on top or if it would be to heavy.

@OldCaliboy 5 жыл бұрын

i just got a matekf411-wind fc board and was wondering if you can do a config settings video of your set up. What was your mixing setting to get the servos to function the way yours do? Thanks for your awesome work.

@LEGOBubuS 5 жыл бұрын

Well done, best hovering quad Space-X thingy!

@pdtech4524 5 жыл бұрын

Nice work! Next stop, The Moon!! 👍😁😎 I fly quadcopters so I can completely understand your passion! 👍😎

@johnpossum556 5 жыл бұрын

That's very impressive. You should try increasing the size of the vectoring fins by say 25% for more control authority. Also maybe program the FCer to react quicker. BTW the control grids on the spacex rocket are from a single billet of titanium & very spendy to manufacture. You could probably get away with some sheet aluminum and JB weld. You don't need to worry about the heat like they do.

@electrified9297 5 жыл бұрын

Great engineering and design

@doverivermedia3937 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic 👏 project ! Thank you for sharing. The next might be an autonomous floating raft for it out on the lake ? Haha. 🇬🇧

@NateSpring 2 жыл бұрын

A single foam tube chassis would be interesting. The flying pencil lol

@edidiongekpo 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you I looked up Tom Stanton. I learnt a lot interesting videos.

@blizzardfpv9584 5 жыл бұрын

can you add a smoke canister at the bottom .lol good show nice work

@nimaatashi7281 5 жыл бұрын

nice job! one question though! how did you manage to provide vertical stability? with CG being in the middle and the thrust vector at the very bottom, one would expect to see it turn and flip over as soon as it lifts off. thanks!

@Jasonoid 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome project, love you tubers being super creative. Just build one with the bottom half vectoring section and enjoy more flight time and higher freefalls!

@Skydive4ever 5 жыл бұрын

Cool 'rocket' Daniel, you never cease to amaze me :-) Funny you mentionned your older video, that is the first thing I thought while i was watching the video, it reminded me of that old design :-)

@SemteVruchte 5 жыл бұрын

This is gonna be big... It works so well for such a design and in comparison with the others on YT

@ballwizz23 5 жыл бұрын

First time I've ever subscribed to a channel after just one video.

@valderja 5 жыл бұрын

Great project. Interesting challenge to overcome. Elon would be proud.

@wayneiona 5 жыл бұрын

Well done, I wonder how a set of wings would go for vertical to horizontal flight.👍

@fierceflyer5 5 жыл бұрын

Cool project, thanks for sharing, maybe you can do a video on programming the flight controllers

@joshuamiddleton5274 5 жыл бұрын

Cool. I started a build on something like this with a 64mm edf. I'm in the process of designing servo controlled vanes for control. Is there something special you have to do on the flight controller to get that to work like a quad?

@brenddondrew3515 3 жыл бұрын

An idea for the body instead of using foam use stiff aluminum windows screens to wrap it. it'll allow a lot more airflow and offer some protection. Plus it'll still give you the look of a fuselage.

@macrumpton 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Perhaps you could make ribs like a boat cover the whole thing in a very wide mesh fabric which would allow the air resistance for controlled falling (and from a distance look pretty solid), but allow air to come to the prop through the whole body.

@jedituck 5 жыл бұрын

You could open the top of the body like a shuttlecock with a single servo, this would move the CP for descent, but I doubt you could transition back to forward flight without landing.

@ScottGerami 5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding work! Keep up the great job Daniel

@KastanDay 5 жыл бұрын

Your videos give me life Daniel. Really interesting work that continually inspires. Your videos are the only ones I share with my fam and friends because they're so appealing. Hope to see you keep posting!

@frankschannel2642 4 жыл бұрын

What an interesting project. Congrats!

@FarmerFpv 3 ай бұрын

Daniel, IDK if you will see this comment now. But I think you should revisit this making it much bigger with some crazy power that is available right now. It would be sick! Maybe with a counter-rotating duel motor thrust setup and make the body out of a plastic mesh just for aesthetics?