Wow! That was FAST! Next stop: THE MOON! :D

It's an honor to have my name hit the ground at 160mph!

Point it up more, stiffen up the control surfaces, get it flying nicely as a glider first, think about a roll gyro, nice work and keep it up!

Your videos are always a treat, James, no matter the outcome! Fast rocket-y things are very hard to control :/

implementing automated flight control is probably the best thing you could do for the power and forces on the plane

"Controlled into the ground" is a great phrase!

Hey it’s a start and most of it survived!! If you need a hand getting some controls on that BEAST feel free to shoot us a message ;)

There's a reason why, "rocket science" is a euphemism for something difficult.

"high powered rocket planes are hard to fly".... Mate i'm not sure we learned that today, i thought we had found that out long ago!

Have you considered putting a flight stabiliser or flight controller on board? You're getting up near the speeds where a human can't react in time doing it line of sight - maybe a computer could help?

9:27 was the best part because the fire coming from the igniter looked so cool

Regardless of the “failure,” that was still VERY COOL. Thank you for taking us on your journey! And that Land Rover is AWESOME!

I think you owe Mike a pint! Sterling support! Poor bloke had to wait until after the sponsor for a "Thank You!".

A shifting mass in the fuselage would be an interesting solution to the rapid change in the CG from the rocket burning !

Yes, what a great flight compliments!

You know it's a solid test flight when you take your aircraft home in a bin bag. I've done 150mph under FPV so I'm really routing for you to nail this cos it's one hell of an experience when you're under the hood. One big tip that will be handy down the line is to swap out that rubber duckie antenna on your goggles for something better. It will really help you get the most out of that little 25mw Vtx.

I used to this as my job ( I was missile programming engineer) and have a couple of pointers. But your launcher at a 45 degree angle. It gives you a little better chance to gain some altitude and time to recover from any mishaps. Also it takes some of the initial thrust and converts it to height instead of speed so it put less stress on the wings and controls. Putting the wing in the middle will make it more stable, the wing on the bottom is going want to flip it over. Or put the wings higher and a little angle up to give some inherent stability, otherwise put a gyro on it to try to keep it level. You might also consider replacing front canard with fully moving canards as elevons rather than flaps.

im 15 and i find most videos boring but i truly love watching your videos and they inspire me a whole lot thank you

11:25 "oh look, there is a battery in the tree" ....that really got me xD

Wow that was exciting ! I think it's better to aim the ramp higher so you have more altitude and time to control the aircraft. You could put some electric motors to take off : it would make you comfortable with the controls and allow you to get up to much higher speeds since rocket motors aren't very efficient at taking off. Another idea : paint your underside black so you know if you're upside down.

Awesome flight! Congratulations! Also great to see your operator number in use :)

Congrats on personal speed record. Thank you for your videos!

Something I remember from flying gliders, if you catch a stall, dive until you have enough speed to recover, otherwise turbulence will just keep building on the wings. Not saying this is what happened on the first flight, but it looks a slight bit like it. Thanks for making such amazing videos. Love your content. Cheers!

That was great. Having the cameras and seeing the deflection on the control surfaces looks like it’s been really valuable. Looks like it pull loads of g before it terminated its flight. Can’t wait to see the next one. Do - Review - Apply.

That was fun! I did expect the big version to be launched more vertically, similar in fashion to the test model.

Yes yes yes bro! 🙌 I truly enjoy your way of experimenting and testing. It is how all the greats have done it! Great video mate!

Haha, nice first flight! Can’t wait for V2!!!

That engine is wild ! Beautiful flame !!

Love the fact that you take failures as a learning event. Well done.

This kind of innovation is the future of engineering in the UK - keep up the great work.

Wow! Awesome flight man!

rule#1 keep both hands on the sticks at all time and hold on for dear life.....very impressive young Sir

Everyone’s saying flight controller: dRehmFlight is waiting for you James ;) But seriously, I think you found out the hard way that canards can be inherently destabilizing. If the vehicle pitches down, the canards in front of the cg will force the nose down more. On the other hand, a rear vertical surface will cause the nose to pitch back up. Next iteration I say: ditch the canards no matter how cool they look

I love the warts and all style of your videos, we're on a real journey with u, cant wait for the next vid!

That was awesome James I enjoyed that keep up the good work

Yet another incredible video from project air 👍👍👍👍

Keep up the work ! As discussed earlier , maybe establishing a glide and adding increasingly sophisticated flight computers makes sense . Just for starters , getting roll under control .

A bigger Field? Looks like the whole place is one Big Giant Field!!!

the sound was amazing great job

when the germans flew the ME 163 B in WW2 they would take off almost vertically to gain as much altitude as possible. maybe you could look into some of their designs? side note for those that don't know about the plane, its called the Messerschmitt ME 163 "Komet" . it was a liquid fuel based rocket interceptor that was made to defend german bases and strongholds. its engine was a catalyst based rocked that was run off of "C stoff" and "T stoff" which was super concentrated hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizer. this plane was recorded to go over 621 mph in level flight and had an unrecorded speed of over 700 mph.

just the wicked flame coming out of the plane

True experimentation, loved it.

It wouldn't be a proper testflight without some damages. Keep up the great work

Fly it like the Space Shuttle. Vertical launch, horizontal landing. Altitude is your friend, giving you time to stabilise the return flight.

Now I want to change the propulsion of my flying wing back to rocket.

Using the Canard as a flap is nice! What I do is move the battery rearwards on a stepper-motor during the rocket-burn to keep the CG from wandering. Long-burn rocketmotors help here.

Pro tip for the barbed wire fence, pull up on the middle line and step on the bottom before you go through it. Enjoyed the video series, subscribed.

for the canards you might want to use a single CF rod to mount them and it can also be a hinge. Use a servo made for bigger gas planes so it can handle more force.

the battery dangling from the barbwire fence.... looked like it hang itself i lost it... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great content, wonderful work!

I absolutely love your videos

Really made my day with the shoutout, as always great and inspiring video. Keep it up 🔥

Very impressive! Many airliners (esp. A320) reduce the control surface gains in proportion to the square of airspeed - you could start with just low rates for powered flight then higher rate for landing.

amazing work!

Great job 👏🏻

Brilliant, Don't give up on it that was kewl!.

Nice Land Rover!

Oho.... Another awesome 🚀 video 😃👍

Loved this!

Kudos from across the pond....u are a smart kid, always experimenting and overcoming.....i see you going places👍

Quite the punch in the second flight

Love the sound lol

7:40 WOW RACING CAR!!!

I like the ad timer on the bottom

Perfect weather!

Atleast you started to make high power RC rocket (controllable). In future I can expect more efficient controllable RC power rocket👍👍

So close to 100k!

this channel is sooooo underrated!!!

4:38 dude, i just realized you got an awesome style man! Seriously, very nice fashion! xD

great video! most enjoyable! love the planning, implementation and execution. i’m sure that Robert Goddard himself mumbled a few expletives under his breath as well a hundred years ago! your channel and efforts are all genuine and all in very good show. cheers!!

That was awesome you gatta build another one

awesome video

You should make a big red button on your control panel and have it set off an emergency parachute inside it and print ABORT onto it.

this is epic man keep op the good work

6:16 You made a pretty good ballistic missile lol

6:30 i felt the pain

Super cool, definitely need a flight controller and some stiffer control components though.

The original orange one that big would have been awesome.

THAT WAS AWESOMEEEEEEEEE.

Man that's pretty tough rocket

Really enjoiyed this, and you seem a real good person, watched two videos, and im happy to sub to you after just the two, thank you for the content, its top quality.

Fantastic videos and great project. Funny to watch and good you take all with a grint of humor.

Ohh what a good laugh! 😅 Thankyou

I randomly found your channel because of this series and am a new Sub now

Holy crap you mean the weather was actually agreeable? 😂 Great upload buddy!

Fabulous, in terms of the numbers of comments, you have hit an aerospace nerve! A kind suggestion only as you clearly are experts; a slightly larger airlift capacity of the rocket might allow you to control the post thrust portion of the ‘flight’. For Goodness sake, do not give up and keep up having fun. Australian rocket scientist probably started with a lot of fewer successes. Next video? Greetings from down under

It is funny that you use meters and miles per hour in the same sentence. I think that the best ways to improve the aircraft (without the obvious and expensive answer of using a LH LOX engine with refactory nozzles and regenerative cooling with the liquid fuel (preferably in an expander cycle)) is: 1: eject spent rockets and ignite the next solid rocket above it (longer flight time & faster speed). 2: make your fins for the control surfaces out of aluminum or a tougher material per unit weight. 3: Try to write an autopilot program to use the control surfaces to make the top of the camera frame face the sky. 4: do what another commenter stated of having the rocket initially travel upwards and level out once the first engine expires.

Good attempt!

A flight board with gyro stabilization built in might help for the level of development. Trying to correct small changes in direction manually at that speed would require razor shape reflexes. Thanks for sharing.

Living vicariously through your experiment . Love it ! Wonder if your control surfaces are too large for such high speed .

I think the weather in his area is a disadvantage but also an advantage, since it gives him time to think thouroughly and prepare his projects. That's also why I love his vids!

I hope you post the video more often.It is really good to watch.❤

An "Air Launch" version with a larger "carrier aircraft" will probably get you the best "bang for you buck" and maybe more flight time/speed?

Very cool!

We will need people like you considering where the world is headed. You will get more roll stability if you just flip the whole thing upside down so the wings are on the top.

More rocket planes!!

If you ever step in motor size to over 160 Ns into true high power rocketry, as opposed to this being mid power, you'll almost certainly need to launch within 20° of vertical. Not sure what the high power rocketry organizations in your area say but both US organizations agree and have the same restrictions. Also, aircraft plywood completely reinforced with fiberglass or pure fiberglass is used for high powered rocket fins, especially if you're applying more load.

I want more videos of James stuck in the wirefence.. that was funny

Woah, a super useful sponsorship? Dope

Awesome!