Building a Rocket-Drone

Would the propellers cause drag when you ignite the rocket? And yes build a bigger and faster one!

Another banger James - love the rocket videos :)

Those grey English skies are classic. Wouldn't think it's supposed to be summer tomorrow.

Hi James , it’s me Anthony Stama the kid who emailed you that’s building a 3-D printed jet F 22 (edit wow this is the most likes I’ve ever gotten. Thank you.🙏🏻) edit 2 I did not expect to get more than five likes. Thank you.

Sweet! Hope you're well, James. On my 5 inch, running 6s, I get 106mph with a GoPro strapped on. That's with freestyle props, not racing. You managed to go well over that. Maybe you should build one that will lift the Turbine and fuel!!😂

GO BIGGER!!! Maybe something with multiple rocket engines and more powerful electric motors. Edit: Used the wrong wording. When you speak eight languages, getting everything is difficult sometimes. Thank you for the correction.

I fly quads, should say, your drone is kinda very slow in stock.. modern stock 5 inch setups fly 100 mph quite easily, without cones and rocket motors. 6s, 1950kv motors, 5146 props give 180km/h and that's quite typical setup

Cool! I think you can combine the fins with the drones arms to reduce drag. Also a 5 inch should hit around a 100mph to begin with, check your config. Higher pitch props will be better for the top speed but drone props don’t come in very high pitches so you might need to check out some airplane props. Looking forward to seeing where this goes 😃

Great Video! Nice to see you get help from Emma. Hope this enables you two to approach even bigger projects!

Defense contractors are taking notes on this video for sure

this man is going to be SO valuable in the drone wars.

The take that space X got me cracking up 😂

Ukrainians watching this and taking notes…..

Now do a high altitude weather-balloon-rocket. The cool thing is, you don’t have to worry about detaching the hydrogen-powered balloon because the rocket will just blow it up! In all seriousness, though, this is a good idea. Imagine getting most of the way to space using a balloon and then coasting the rest of the way using the rocket, since the force resisting the rocket’s vertical motion is smaller (less gravity, less air resistance, etc). Not only that, but the rocket will be closer to space anyway, so a suborbital model rocket would be a lot easier to make. You just need a trigger for when the balloon pops, an automatic process, (which can be linked to the altimeter instead, since the altimeter can tell when the altitude begins decreasing) so you wouldn’t need anything more than the stuff that is used in traditional rockets. You could have the weather balloon attached to the platform and the rocket on the platform (probably with two or three guide rails) and then use gyroscopic stabilization (as fins wouldn’t work at such low speeds and launching off of a flying (or at that point falling) platform is unstable no matter how many guide rails you have) and just connect the wire to the altimeter, maybe with a tiny microcontroller if your altimeter itself doesn’t have a signal for when it starts to fall

Nice James! Nice work and great video material!

Would love to see a bigger version, absolutely love your videos!! Engineering FTW!

I watch so many of these project type channels I’ve gotten ridiculously good at seeing a pcbway sponsor coming from a mile away lol

This reminds me a lot of Thunderbird 1 from the 60's Thunderbirds show. An awesome build!

Truly an awesome project and great idea. Thanks for sharing !

Excellent work and a perfect result. Bigger? Yes....absolutely.