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Falcon Heavy Model – Flight 1 [video]
- craftyguy 8y agoFrom what I can tell, this guy is working pretty much by himself (or he fails to give credit to others). If true, that's quite impressive. There's a little more info on his site (with some index finger scrolling fatigue): https://bps.space/falcon-heavy https://bps.space/falcon-heavy
- usermac 8y agoDayum, just dayum. This is the geekiest thing I've ever seen. The video. #5stars
- bhhaskin 8y agoCan we not turn hacker news into Reddit.
- craftyguy 8y agoSadly, it's a bit too late for that.
- usermac 8y agoI'm just thankful on this Thanksgiving day as I try to live here in the USA that my HN social score (Karma I think they call it here, funny, sounds like reddit) is not yet used to limit my boarding of high-speed rail or getting a loan or even a mortgage.
- Technetium_Hat 8y agoThe truth is, that comment would be downvoted on Reddit too... Mostly because of its use of a hashtag.
- xur17 8y agohttps://bps.space/ https://bps.space/ has some additional details, including the flight computer that does thrust vectoring (on a model rocket!). This makes me want to build model rockets again..
- app4soft 8y ago> This makes me want to build model rockets again.. If you need FOSS app for design & simulate model rockets -- use OpenRocket.[0,1,2] There are many tutorials on YouTube.[3,4,5,6,7] [0] http://openrocket.info http://openrocket.info [1] https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCU8QRVkdYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCU8QRVkdYQ [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pp-mVTBd14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pp-mVTBd14 [5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUaeJ7GV_WPTp26NIkg4rg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUaeJ7GV_WPTp26NIkg4rg [6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHbZUEr_Co http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHbZUEr_Co [7] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWSz41c1ic4pBmUIiZQsTQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWSz41c1ic4pBmUIiZQsTQ
- foobarian 8y agoHe even resembles Elon Musk! :-)
- diimdeep 8y agoIkarus electric "rocket" - Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeEh5OUaDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeEh5OUaDs
- tango24 8y agoI really enjoyed the "cinematography" that went into this -- made it extra special. The little boop comment in the middle of a very crucial detachment made me laugh pretty hard. Well done!
- phkahler 8y agoSomeone once told me you're not supposed to make rockets with guidance control (in the US) because they are then missiles. Is that true? Is this guy in the US?
- nickparker 8y agoHis flight systems are all attitude control, not guidance to a target. It’s a silly distinction but apparently makes things OK. He’s talked with state dept people a lot to be able to sell his kits internationally.
- phkahler 8y ago>> His flight systems are all attitude control, not guidance to a target. It’s a silly distinction but apparently makes things OK. I'm not sure how thrust vectoring is altitude control... I suppose it's OK to steer then so long as your "target" is the general direction up. I can see value in that.
- AshleyGrant 8y agoattitude control, not altitude control. Thrust vectoring controls the attitude of the rocket. As in where the nose is pointing.
- ChristianGeek 8y agoI don’t know, but I definitely built some unguided missiles back in my model rocketry days. Always the most expensive models, too!
- 14 8y agoLol the look on my 12 year old face when I realiZed how far a rocket launched horizontal can fly. 10/10 would do again
- kevinsundar 8y agoHere's a video of his landing program! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hJ48LCXWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hJ48LCXWs
- walrus01 8y agoUnless the video is greatly slowed down, this launches significantly slower than every model rocket I've ever seen.
- phpnode 8y agoThat's one of his design goals, most model rockets are unrealistically fast compared to the real thing
- aarongough 8y agoThe footage is hugely slowed down, hence the deep pitch of the rocket motor sounds (they are usually very 'hissy' at this size), and the slow speed of the sparks coming from the motors. Also if you listen closely when the rocket is descending and deploying parachutes you can hear the greatly-slowed-down sound of a DSLR shutter actuating repeatedly (ka-thunk-beep) as photos are taken of the descent.
- walrus01 8y agoTo avoid disturbing others in the same room, I watched this at first with sound entirely off. Watching it again with the benefit of sound it's blindingly obvious that this is slowed down significantly... Facepalm time.
- walrus01 8y agoWhat I find interesting about this is that in the RC and drone building and flying community, you have generally two categories of aircraft: a) Aircraft that are designed to be a faithful scale model of a real thing, with all of the intricate modeling and painting work that goes into it. For example there's a person who built a model of an Antonov 225: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRI2y0cwHd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRI2y0cwHd0 You can find flying B-29 models, jet airliner models, etc. and then b) Aircraft that are designed for a dedicated purpose and look nothing like anything that exists in the 1:1 scale aviation world, such as the "Believer" foam first-person-video plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf4x5XhHvD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf4x5XhHvD4 where (b) includes other clean sheet of paper designs like Zipline's blood bank delivery drone, which has a recovery method not dissimilar to a Boeing/Insitu ScanEagle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSCEalMOL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSCEalMOL8
- nodesocket 8y agoIt would be interesting if he could add GPS to Signal[1] boards. GPS would obviously provide lat/long, but also altitude. [1] https://bps.space/signal/ https://bps.space/signal/
- alpinewinter 8y agoHe's measuring altitude with the onboard Barometer. Adding GPS to this board would make it highly problematic from a legal standpoint.