Alright, everybody
today I feel like I'm starting my second childhood.
I have a little model rocket set here.
Back when I was younger I was into model rockets a lot, I had
several models and of course all the launch equipment and everything for
them.
A few years back I lost interest and sold all of them.
But now I have some kids coming up that I think will be happy to help me
build and launch a rocket. So I got this starter set
and we're gonna see if we can build it and launch it for you today.
This box has a handle on top so you can use it
for a carrying case as well.
Here it looks like we have the launch equipment
launch pad
launch controller
this looks a little different than I expected
this looks actually very similar to an Estes controller
That's kind of odd
I expected it to look somewhat different based on some of the Quest
rocket videos that I saw on Youtube.
Here are three Quest
model rocket engines, they're the A6-4
which, generally when you build a rocket you launch with a lower power
engine to start with, and these are fairly low power.
I'm not sure I dare launch my camera - I have a camera that I can mount to the rocket -
but I'm not sure I dare try that with engines this small, so I'll probably
use the camera only after I get some stronger engines.
here's the rest of, or another piece or two of the launch pad
and then finally
here is the rocket itself
looks like we have some fins here and the main body tube
this I'm guessing would be
the recovery wadding, and then finally
looks like I have some instruction here. So we're going to go ahead and start building this
hopefully we can have it ready for launch soon.
Landry: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
blast off!
put the key in, take it off your arm right in that hole
Camden: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...
blast-off!
[kids exclaiming]