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super cool project

As a retired 74 year old aerospace technology old guy, watching this video was very satisfying on many levels. 1) seeing young people passionate about rocketry fulls my heart with joy. 2) your fabrication & build skills are next level (but you know that) - be proud anyway. 3) test, test, test, test along the way. Hmmmm . . . she is wise too.4) Great effort to be as certain as possible most of your build is recoverable and reusable. Last, at 74 I still tear up every time I watch Falcon boosters land simultaneously. Don't care what you think of da Musk man. You gotta admit that is a sight to behold. Keep up the great work Xyla.

As a TRA L3, I am thoroughly impressed with the build quality and overall clear knowledge of high powered rocketry in general - amazing job! Especially when compared to some popular youtubers who bite off more than they can safely chew given their experience, your project and process was a refreshing step in the right direction in terms of youtubers showing safe and well-established build practices. Again, amazing job, I look forward to more FAR shenanigans :)

"Hot glue rhymes with Mach 2" has got to be the single most terrifying phrase I've heard from an engineer and I absolutely love it

Over 4 miles straight up!!.. and lands walking distance away !!.. that's one straight true flying rocket.

As a lifelong craftsman your skill level is remarkable and the engineering is totally amazing. I have never worked with carbon fiber so I learned some things. Great video

This is the kind of online influencer every father wishes their daughter to follow . What an amazing young lady

I don't care what you place is in life; you always will feel like a badass when walking through the desert with a rocket on your shoulder and electric guitar music playing in the background.

I love that you have fully committed to calling it Boatal Tote. It makes me smile every time you say it.

I've had several reloads with tight liners(~20:00) through the years. I usually test fit it in the casing before loading the grains. If it's too tight, I just sand it lightly until it fits normally. I haven't seen the fly away rail guide system before, that is beyond cool!! Great flight, great build!!

That's awesome! It's amazing how much hard work went into building this amazing rocket. I like Xyla's enthusiasm, genuine interest, knowledge. A very uplifting and inspiring video. Thanks!

The shot with everyone reacting to takeoff was awesome.

Gotta make this comment before finishing this video. The woman clearly didn't do any research about you, cause you are more than a PR girl, you've paid dues, and something I'm proud about brought engineering more coed by being one of the positive role models. Thank you, now back to the video cause I'm excited to see Spite in action.

My daughter class had a boat racing event using different type of hulls and motors, she entered, and the boys in her class joked her hard. It was simple kit. She followed all procedures to the T. She picked the right combination and beat them all. She laughed at them as she was holding the 1st place ribbon.

Wow!! That was an incredible amount of hard work. I had no idea. From someone that knows nothing about rocket building, that was an amazing job and an amazing launch flight and recovery. Great job. I hope you reached your goals. You certainly deserve it.

I started building Estes rockets on my 13th birthday (1965). I still have the launcher my father and I designed as an instantaneous launch option to the old Estes "wait-for-awhile" launcher. I still have the very first issue of the Saturn 1B which I built when I was 16. It's a bit dilapidated now. I'm 71 year old. Shoot for the stars!

Xyla immediately doing the same pose as Spite the raccoon sticker as soon at the rocket lifted is the energy I want in my life.

"hot glue rhymes with mach 2" love it!, Awesome project, thank you for sharing!

The tube into tube insertion scene between you two is great. I think we all enjoyed watching it as much as you seemed to have yourselves. 😊

Lesson Learned: When the people you're working with don't recognize the value that you bring and allow you to ascent to the top... build a carbon fibre rocket and use it to blow right past them. I got goosebumps on the countdown - it must've been insane to see it live.

Absolutely loved the project and the end result. Just a word of caution at 5:21 as you move both hands to the outside stack of MDF while cutting on the table saw. With the piece being wider than it was long and pushing from the "outside" of the blade, you are introducing a twisting force on the wood, pinching the back of the blade while not securing the piece between the blade and the fence. This can result in bad kickback and jamming/launching of the part between the fence and blade - often straight back but sometimes up and/or sideways depending on what part of the wood gets caught by the blade.

You rock, young lady! That was an awesome rocket build, launch, fly straight, and recover! Keep following your passions and dreams because this is what makes life really, REALLY EXCITING. (and of course, there will be lots of hard work)

I've watched just under 1/2 of this video thus far and I am subscribing. This showed up in my recommended videos and I will now (after finishing the video) go down the carbon fiber rabbit hole. Something I always had an interest in before but now I have to learn more. Great video!

An uncut shot of the full flight from at least one angle would've been nice, I don't think anyone would complain about the video being a little longer

My daughter loves rockets so I showed this to her to let her know that she can build rockets, too. She watched part of the video and asked, "Why she no go in it?" She is 2 years and 9 months old, but is asking the important questions.

That Black and Decker work bench. I have one as well, but it is close to 35 years old. Still works wonderfully.

5:30 love it!! So often, the jigs that people come up with are more interesting than the piece they're making

Beautiful launch! It was my daughter's morning screen time :) Can't describe how much it means to her to see you being you!

Strutting to the launch pad with a carbon fiber rocket on her shoulder with a casual hair flip is the most Xyla Spite vibe ever and I love it!

Amazing and Congratulations! I remember the thrill of my first Estes Mosquito launch...no words possible to describe your thrill here!

I've never been to this channel before, and looking at the 30+ minute runtime I was kinda like .... "nahhhhh ... ... ok, I'll just skip to the launch". BUT .. you really sucked me in and I gotta say I loved every second of it. Spite is absolutely awesome. You did an incredible job. Not just with the rocket, but the video as well! Thanks for the fun ride! New subscriber for sure. ☮

What's amazing about all of these rocket videos, not just Xyla's, is just how professional and capable they are getting. This is all "hobbyist" technology, but it's so polished and we're seeing some amazing achievements out of it.

There is nothing more entertaining than watching Xyla and Joe hitting explosives with a hammer. 😆

Regarding the entire concept, its mission, your flawless precision during construction, the phase testing, final assembly, preflight preparation, setup of the launch rod, mission operations, arming, and the ignition to launch phase of your rocket… …simply put without hyperbole-all facets of your effort can only be judged as absolutely outstanding, astonishing, inspiring, enlightening, exhilarating, invigorating, and damn girl you rock!

When I look back to what my friends were doing in rocket club back in the 60's (I sometimes went with them for moral support), they were happy to get anything upwards of 1000 feet. It was like they were playing with model trains, and Xyla is driving locomotives.

That's an absolutely awesome rocket, an absolute joy to see built and launched.

ABSOLUTE W, phenomenal build and a perfect flight! Congrats homie :)

I was a bit worried when I didn't see any respirators while you were building the rocket, but then you did. What a wonderful video, you are so talented and extremely engineered.

That was so cool absolutely spectacular all the work you did to make this rocket fly and being successful Mark 2.3 what a performance😊

3:15 Wow composites are really simple? I'm going to start a submarine company now. Thanks for the inspiration.

Calling you out as "PR-Girl" is absolutely despising your talent, ingenuity and hard work as an engineer to such a degree that you call the Rocket _Spite._ You go Girl!

Lazy Friday night working on a long distance UAV and found this channel....... And i think i also found love 😍🥰 totally geeking out on rockets!!!

Awsome! And that “botal tote” (7:53) is great stuff! 😅

Everything about this is as impressive as hell. That schedule was nuts, you didn't miss a milestone, and you hit your target velocity almost dead on. Amazing engineering, project management, and craftsmanship!

Idea: for bulkhead epoxy, since it's difficult to see inside the tube, use UV-reactive pigment so that a black light will make it glow :)

Xyla that was simply an amazing rocket build and launch! I started model rocketry way back in the mid-late 60's and ended in the early 70's due to other interests. The the biggest engines at the time were Centuri's mini-max engines into the early 70's until their engine plant, sadly, rapidly disassembled itself and Centuri never rebuilt it. We didn't have any of the high-tech gear, materials, engines, or machine tools you all use today but we paved the way with old school grit and determination for you all now to amaze us with how far you have carried on. BRAVO!! BTW, were you able to hear the crack as Spite went supersonic? As a safety professional, I appreciated all the PPE and safety precautions you took during the build and launch. My friend launched his Saturn 5 only to have 2 of the 5 engines fail to ignite, came off the rod with an abrupt right turn into the ground! Tears were shed! It would never fly again! My greatest flier, which is sadly no longer with me was a kit bash. Large swept wing fins modified from the booster of a 3 stage rocket, held securely by Titebond glue and fillets to a 14" BT50 or 55 body tube, and a 5" balsa wood tapered nose cone that mimicked the Sprint missile profile, which was BTW my favorite wickedly fast missile followed by the old Nike Herc! Painted it fluorescent orange with red and white silk chute. I could fly that bird in 15-20 mph winds and it tracked true with max altitude of estimated about 1500 feet in calm winds (old school trig altitude calculations) with a C6-7 engine. To get max altitude would throw a B6-0 (B14-0 while more thrust was too fast burning) underneath to get it moving off the rod as I had dual rod guides. Favorite in Jr High Physical Science class was that I talked the teacher into doing an outdoor rocket launch in the football field! I launched none-other than Estes ole Big Bertha with a C6-3, nice slow lift off with engine flaming away, pop the chute (silk of course) and land within the constraints of the football field. Fun times!

That has to be one of the most impressive things I have seen in a very long time. Absolutely epic!

The effect the speed had on the decal was incredible

Whenever you need to remove the motor, heat up the metal enclosure with a heat gun, it will expand and make it easier to slide out (it would also have helped to get it inside)

What a great looking rocket, very well done Xyla!

I built Century Rockets from the mid 70's to about '78, when I was in high school. Had I met someone like you who could light up the room like you do and make my hobby look cool, we would have been soulmates for life, lol. My friends would watch me launch my rockets, which with a CX7 could hit just shy of 2000 feet, and I flew them at my high school in the Napa Valley, the only place big enough that I knew I could find my rocket, which sometimes under the chute landed up to a qtr mile away. It would take off out of sight. I suspended a tennis match much to the anger of my HS's tennis coach, when the sound of my rocket on one flight stunned everyone at the match and I an my friends were almost marked as dweebs for life, my only salvation is I was the best cyclist on campus. Your video is truly enjoyable, you are a good rocketry coach and that's four decades of post college teaching talking, lol, in the tourism systems science field. My daughter is good at explaining things like you do, now getting her Masters in International Studies, and she was not into rocketry, but was into crafts and computer science.

I respect that the name of the rocket is based on what its fuel is. Good on you!

I admit I've not watched the whole thig here but Xyla is one of the top ten creators out there. The old argument about "style over content" or "content over style" doesn't apply because she has both. It's educational, she's pretty, rockets are cool, slightly better than kitten videos and I'm doing nothing again. Thx Xyla, thanks a bunch.

This was one of the coolest random vids I've ever seen, and now I have to subscribe! Really cool!

I am into amateur radio (Ham Radio), but I stumbled upon this video. And it was... AWESOME! Great job, Congratz!

Oh hell yeah, Xyla. Congrats on the L3. As always, you rock. I am learning so many techniques from this video.

eyo Xyla, Im a boatbuilder and though I mostly work with polyester, sometime I work with epoxy. I dont know if you ever experienced it, but removing your nylon "non-stick" from epoxy has somewhat of a piezo-electric effect that you can see.. whenever we work with epox, we always dim the the lights before ripping off the nylon....it looks otherworldy! :)

I am not really into rockets, but I can appreciate the amount of work and precision. That was hot! Well done.

This was so freaking awesome!! Go Spite!

There are loads of things I love when I get to watch your records of what you do. Here are a few that come to mind right after finishing this one: you work hard, you have fun, you have friends there to help and share in the joy of what you do. That all comes across as just part of the way you do things, whatever it is you do. That is not true with lots of other creators; they might have all these things, but not all make it as clear and vital as you do. Thanks for another uplifting lift up!

Wow that was really fun and educational to watch I was so engaged and enthralled from beginning to end-- great job!!! (PS. for any future launches it would be cool if you could show more of the rocket trajectory

Definitely in my top 10 videos ever. I most especially enjoyed the hugely positive attitude (necessary for everything), and the cure epoxy dances; also necessary for everything. Imagine if everyone was as happy and excited about what they do…

Although I've never done any rocketeering (yet!), I am an engineer and so watching your attention to detail at the same time as such joyful enthusiasm, had me grinning like a happy camper myself when Spite lit up and rocketed(!) away... it is so much fun to explore new things by experiment, especially when you do it yourself.. Great Job, not just in building the device but communicating the feelings as well!

Pointless story: I was heavy into rocketry 20 years ago, back in the day when flight computers were just coming online and GPS was new and expensive. I wanted to build my own GPS tracker that transmitted a position on the 2m ham radio band into the APRS network. To do so I would need a ham radio technician license. At the testing site, after I had passed the technician test, the proctor asked if I wanted to take the General class license test while I was there. Not having studied for it, I failed the test by one question. Gauntlet thrown, I came back the next month prepared to take the General and Extra exams, including the Morse code test, and passed all. Consumed by a new hobby, I never finished that tracker nor ever launched another rocket.

A friend sent me this link, great content!! I saw this about 8mos ago, but it was a great re-watch!!

I have not seen a good rocket video on KZfaq in a minute (blame the algorithm). Love the reasoning why you named the rocket “Spite”. Watching you get on the task of carbon fiber fabrication with good old fashioned know how and modern tooling, to packing a rocket motor & having ridiculous amounts of fun with a good friend (blow up your buddies garage 😂)…dude that’s love of aerospace!! Keep ‘em flying!!

That was absolutely awesome, and worth the wait! Well done Xyla, and well flown Spite! It was bound to be amazing - you couldn’t have something look that great on the ground not fly spectacularly 🎉

For simple, faster, better FILLETS order a bag of 3m Glass Bubbles (usually called micro) from Aircraft Spruce. In a dixie cup, mix the bubbles with the same epoxy you'll be using with your cloth, until you have a peanut butter kind of paste, use a tongue depressor to create the profile, and put your cloth down. A better chemical bond, no waiting or sanding. Hope this helps. Also try flocked cotton for larger radii fillets.

I've been working on programming a custom flight computer from off-the-shelf components... projects like this give me the motivation I need to continue!! Sweet shit!

Love your videos! Your the second channel I have ever subscribed to or gave a thumbs up!

Amazing work! You even got a bit of spin action too. If this is the result of someone making you spiteful, I pity anyone who makes you _really mad!_ Keep this up and you'll be sending a rocket to space in no time!

Thank you for showing the whole process from build to launch in one video instead of a six-part mini-series.

just discovered your channel.....I have to say you are a pretty amazing human being! I'm now dreaming of things I can make out of carbon fiber! Thanks for the fun and entertaining videos and the inspiration.

Outstanding Job Xyla! Thanks for inspiring me!

Spite might just be the best rocket pilot ever, but her ground crew, led by Xyla, are wholesome splodey fun peeps!

The camera won't bias the aero as long as there's another camera (or camera-shaped block of cardboard & hot glue) on the other side and they're mounted with X and Y mirror symmetry rather than rotational symmetry.

Awesome! Congrats on the successful launch.

I love to watch videos of handy people, I have no option now but follow your channel and to see your library of videoes now 😅 great craft 👍

Very cool Xyla! My buddy sent me this video. I certified Level 3 under Tripoli 20+ years ago (Aerotech M1319, 75mm motor in a 9' tall, 7.5" diameter scratch-built rocket). It is amazing how much has changed, yet the design and building of high power rockets are so similar. Carbon fiber was just coming into discussions back then, but all we had were sono tubes, which we fiberglassed along with Birch plywood fins (glassed into the center tube as well as outside tube). And computers were much simpler too. I really enjoyed your journey, and especially your enthusiasm. Great job young lady!

Xyla, your enthusiasm is infectious and you have mad skills. Counting down from 10 then 2 seconds into launch must have been both stressful, exhilarating, and oh so satisfying. I am quite pleased for you and look forward to your next endeavour. Much luck.🎉😊

wow, your enthusiasm is awesome. I'm an old man and totally enjoyed Spite's launch.

This was amazing!!! Congratulations on a successful launch! How high did it go? That went by pretty quickly.

I haven't flown in over ten years when I did my qualification flight on an aerotech smoky H. This popped up today in my recommended videos and holy crap was this amazing. Wish I could have seen this flight in person. Also, was that breakaway guide your idea? Pure genius!

Camera man blew the shot… lol - I feel like I watched this entire video, and I only saw five seconds of the rocket in the air… with that said great job the rocket flew very straight and you did an amazing job!

Now that one wicked project and a big congratulations on your successful launch 👍👍👍

very cool just found this channel .. my older brother was totally into rockets and used to goto nevada and shoot in the desert with a group of people ( hes passed away now) but would launch 10 foot+rockets.. i asked on one launch these pretty loud.??? he said watch.............being there was fricken awesome i could see how come he got hooked....but his wife hated when he would spend a grand for a engine ------and its cool seeing you do lay ups....... ive made so many parts for my 1969 javelin............just wish i have a vaccum pump ..........

That was awesome! So many thoughts. First: yay for remembering that scheduling time for "things that keep me sane" is sooo important. It's easy to get caught up in "but this is a hobby, it should be fun," and forget to do something simple like hang with your mates. Second: I feel like the camera work for the first sequence in the workshop was really good, so shoutout to the camera operator. Third: at the end, I was struck by the sheer *history* in this rocket. Twenty-first century electronics stuffed inside a vehicle built using late twentieth century materials, launched off a rail that hasn't really changed since 1944, and propelled using a method that is basically unchanged from 1880s naval artillery. Even the building techniques range from modern computer-controlled tools all the way back to hand-work that is thousands of years old. I know this sort of thing is all around us, but this rocket just made me really see the way everything comes from somewhere and it all chains together like falling dominoes to give us the world we have today. Too deep? Well, be proud that you can inspire such thoughts. :D

And Xyla engages in rocket science. Nice to see you excited and smiling again. Wish I could join a science club with people who are so engaged as you are. Learning while having fun has to be the one of the best things in life.

@ 7:35 I agree, looks amazing. And that rocket isn’t looking bad either!

i just discovered your channel, what a wonderful person you are. Very interesting to watch

*My brother and I grew up building and launching Model Rockets, so this was one awesome video.* *Thanks for posting it.*

You're mood carries through in your communication, your pacing is excited and full of energy. I'm glad you're doing well!

Wow KZfaq shared this video and glad they did. When I was younger, a lot younger like high school I was into rocketering. I was into engine design and chemical propellant and the forces they generate. Anyway, went on to be an engineer and never got back into rocketry. Regardless I loved your creativity and ingenuity. I liked and subscribed and sure to follow you on your adventures. Who needs TV when you can watch videos by wonderful folks like you… real entertainment! Keep it up and looking forward to watching all the videos.

That is amaizing. You are so much fun to watch. I am so glad I found your chanel.

what a great build, the carbon weave is gorgeous and i'm honestly suprised the sticker got peeled off by the sheer speed despite being covered in clear coat! Would love to see a short video or a youtube commnuity post talking about post launch, such as the motor delining, what happened to the camera and telemetry data (if there is anything to share)

Best way to prove the naysayers, build a damn rocket yourself. Now that's baller!

Great Job on the Rocket and the Video! I haven't done a minimum diameter rocket yet. My large motor rockets have been 6.5 inch motor tubes. That large of a rocket likes "N" motors like N2000W, N3300R< N4700T and N2220DM Aerotek motors. Again Awesome Job! Rocket Rick

I absolutely love you and your crazy ideas lol your videos bring me joy wherever I am