I put a 12 FOOT SKELETON on a GIANT ROCKET!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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Disclaimer: DO NOT ATTEMPT. Though it was not directly explained in the video, everyone on site was briefed and those who were not directly on the launch team were required to be in a bunker, all launch personnel were behind and within 10 feet of bunkers. Despite having a commercial motor this launch was treated as an experimental flight, conducted at an experimental launch facility, and this team has extensive HPR experience and designed safety protocols based off of sims and planned tumble recovery and they were followed to a tee.
If your ego is hurting because I lit an M motor in a crop top and a witch hat, that's a you problem.
Wow what a awesome idea for Halloween 👻🎃 lol damn you are very super sweet smart enough to even build a skeleton rocket 🚀 lol if I was there to help you out with it probably we would have made it fly Lil bit more higher lol hahaha Jkn I'm not that smart enough.... But nice job tho keep it up I really do love watching your Krazy idea ❤
Said like the true engineer you are! :-) Keep representing for girls everywhere. I have recommended your channel to my daughters.
Lol. Your neighbors watching you build that must have been thinking: she's finally lost all touch with reality. 😂Next year: actively-controlled skeleton feet as "fins" to keep the skeleton on target!
Aligning the thrust vector with the center of mass might be better.
I could see her turning a skeleton into iron man without the armour ... but a skeleton riding a broom then spewing candy would be cool and doable in time for halloween on the range
The center of mass is the issue. The motor blowing off the legs is another. A rocket can fly without fins. Fins are more for compensating the wind than stability. The motor would be better placed above the head and to the side slightly. Also a big weight in the head. Then it would have flown intact.
@@AugustusLarch People in 1945: "By 2025, we'll be living in cloud cities, traveling around in silent flying cars, and all disease and war will be gone." People in 2023: "Yo, I think we need to put a bowling ball in the head of our giant skeleton rocket so we can rain candy down on people from 7,000ft"
@@AugustusLarch I doubt the legs would have made any difference. They're so flexible that the center of pressure would just wobble along with any imbalance.
It's oddly fitting that Skelly was like "I don't need these legs, I don't need this candy" and then took off like a drunk mosquito.
Honestly really glad all the plastic in the bucket wasn't scattered across the desert. I genuinely hated the idea
@@see3655i was thinking that too!!! the candy would decompose.. but the wrappers not so much
"a drunk mosquito" just lol
I'm happy to see we're taking the necromancy part of this project seriously and reinforcing the joints, it's a step many junior necromancers forget (or neglect) when raising skeletons.
Now that's what I call pelvic thrust lol I love this build its a great idea.
It really drives you insane
🎶Lets do the time warp agaaaaaaaaain 🎶
thank you!
Hello surprised this has no replies until this one
Special thanks to Xyla for answering the questions as old as time itself, “why does FAR have bunkers if the rockets go up and not sideways?”, and “How low can I make an M motor go?”
I’m surprised the FAR people let you fly that considering it has 0 aerodynamics or recovery system but it is extremely entertaining that they did and I want more of it. Fly a larger Christmas tree this year!
they LOVED it haha :) This is the beauty of not being Tripoli or NAR affiliated haha.
I wonder if there are lower bound altitude records for M motors....
That was such a sketchy launch! LOL. But yeah. It looked like a pretty good bunker.
@@xylafoxlin Lower bound altitude record for M motors sounds like a challenge to make a maglev rocket sled with one.
A bit late for this project, but for future reference and anyone else who runs into this, certain plastics have what's called "low surface energy" and require special adhesives (mostly polypropylene and polyethylene) to stick - the easiest of these to get is some CA glues can be bought with a surface primer, although those packs are a bit small for 12ft skeles
That was a lesson I could have used last year, before I began the adventure that introduced me to methylacrylate two part adhesives… :) Expensive stuff. But insanely strong.
@@vaalrus MEK is great for some stuff too if you can find it
and don't for get to "plasma etch"!! aka hit it with a reguar propane torch for ~0.2seconds and check if water wets to it better
Guidance? We don't need no stinkin' guidance!! We're makin a giant candy spewing pinwheel here!! ROTFLMAO. Loved it.
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Ah, I asked the same question. Our RSO is stickler about guaranteeing stability and frequently doesn't let rockets fly. It was a tough Saturday driving the whole way and back and not getting too fly a rocket 😐
If both legs had stayed in place . . . maybe?
@@joesterling4299 where's the gun in that? LMAO
@@BigDickMark Many rocket meets have a special day/time, even an often further-from-the-control-area launch pad, to launch "experimental" stuff ... you know, refrigerators, lawnmowers, Christmas Trees, kiddie cars, and anything else a builder decides to put a motor in! lol!
YESYESYES! A serious rocketeer who UNDERSTANDS! :) I mean, the CG was well forward of the CP, at least before he lost most of his body.
Hot take but the most important skill in engineering is knowing when to bother with the engineering and when to just send it.
Was I the only one concerned about throwing candy wrappers all over the desert when the bucket of candy was proposed? I’m kind of glad Skelly left the bucket at the launch pad.
True but they are required to pick up all debris. I figured it would be the funnest FOD walk ever.
like a halloween easter egg hunt.
For your next rocket launch, could you maybe include one shot that's the entire launch from start to finish? I get that you had lots of nifty camera angles to show here, but there wasn't a single clip that just showed from launch to landing uninterrupted.
She did do a single shot as a separate upload for Spite, hopefully that becomes more of a trend
This was maddening, I agree.
It's the worst case of flying flaming diarrhea I have ever seen! :-)
Seriously, I love the creative fun explosive stuff you come up with. What a great way to make the most out of life. Go girl!
It's like the day after Indian food.
ROFLMAO!!! THIS!!! THIS!!!’
Xyla should have got Skelly sponsored by Taco Bell. :P
In sixth grade my friend and I invented a comic book super hero called Solar Poopy who flew by lighting his farts on fire. We just drew pictures and told stories about him. You guys have created the most accurate embodiment of Solar Poopy that I ever imagined possible. You made a dream come true that I had totally forgotten about. Go Xyloids ! ! !
joe having a moustache was the scariest halloween surprise possible
“Here’s our scope creep”. Love it, wish people were usually this honest when managing projects.
That gave "pelvic thrust" a new meaning.
Roflol
If you've ever played KSP, you know what happens when your rocket's center of mass is not exactly in line with the center of thrust. Thanks, Xyla, for this real-life demonstration.
Oh, Xyla, Xyla, Xyla. You make us soooo happy.
I second this
It would’ve been great to see a giant skeleton majestically fly off into the sunset… but this was so much better 😂
Now this is my kind of Burning Man!
Xyla, this is far and away one of the funnest maker videos EVER DONE! You outdid yourself.
Agree
I love the scene of you and your witches showing up to FAR. Hilarious!
The editing is top-notch. I think this is easily the best horror movie of 2023.
Mr. Skellibones is a steely eyed missile man. He did some fancy flying there!
I can totally see you hosting a weekly show for kids about science and engineering and fun projects that they can do at home.
So, there's a paper-tube company in Ohio. Called Custom Paper Tube. I used to use them back when I ran Propulsion Polymers. The cool thing about them is that they had SOOO much tooling lying around that if you wanted samples of a custom paper tube, they'd usually be willing to send them to you for free--typically they'd make up 5-10 tubes. Just, you know, if you need cores to wrap fibreglass around in the future....
Love it Xyla! Thanks for bringing us along in the fun and games! And Happy Halloween.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
This like is for George:
For cinematically directing that shot @10:47 for maximum spookiness!
The flight trajectory kind of reminded me of BFR... Just with candy-rain instead of concrete and a lot more style :D
I heard Xyla is a passionate musician too. She never leaves the house without her Xyla-phone.
5:25 One of the great unanswered questions of the universe: "Is the flame a shart?" 🤣
"It's lobotomy time!" What a great clip. The skelly rocket brings a new meaning to pelvic thrust.
Always a good day when Xyla uploads
They are not even high .... fun with rocketeering and skeletons is a high all it's own. You all Rock....IT.
All the appendages being "amputated" and "dismembered" at ignition shows the amazing acceleration of this rocket.
🎃 A Xyla HALLOWEEN special!?! I'm so excited!! 😃
"Candy deployment system has been armed" was the single most scary phrase in this episode. Sounds exactly like something someone, who's about to turn the neighbourhood kids into mince with rock candy, would say. Candy claymore mines could totally be a thing. Just saying! :P
Cardboard tube? Excellent. Sometimes you have to fly something just for the sake of flying. You should foray further into the wonderful world of cardboard flight. It's so liberating.
Back in the 70s, I made a "bazooka" that fired what amounted to Estees engines with fins on one end and a rock on the other. Stability was pretty random, and it was actually hard to hit the broad side of barn with them. Watching this brought back those memories!
Proper entertainment. Good camera work too 👍🏼👍🏼 Jolly well done.
Nobody:
NASA:
Xyla: i'll shove an extremely big rocket inside an extremely tall skeleton and set fire to it hehe
Admiring the colorful decor and wall hangings in your home during the promo.
The music syncs so well with the jumping at 12:40. I love it.
I see that the aerodynamics of a skeleton are quite impressive indeed.
And the scope creep didn't like it to much.
The bucket strap instantly detached!
That failed scope creep needs a... wait for it... post-mortem analysis! :P
@@KernelLeak I bet they investigated thoroughly.
The way it did a loop-de-loop in the air is very impressive.
Lmao when I saw that candy bucket my first thought was "that handle is going to snap INSTANTLY" and lo and behold, it did.
If I had a daughter your channel would be required Saturday morning viewing. Your content is fun and inspiring.
We-ee-eelll... a near perfect launch with several pre-planned disaster points. And it is a thing of beauty-- much like the launch team! Geniuses all. "You'll believe a skeleton can fly"-- !
The view with the camera that looked like it was attached to the legs watching the main body spin away and the spin stabilized portion of the camera on the main body were my favorite shots.
Finally a good use for those 12' skele-bois! They are rapidly getting up there with inflatable yard decorations as one of the laziest and most generic Halloween yard decorations.
Well you can never get enough of watching fire coming out of the rear end of a Skeleton. Priceless!!
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Wow, that was dangerous! Happy nobody was injured (except for Skully, of course). 😂
Always lots of fun hanging out with you all....smiles
I'm sure the gang in the end was celebrating not that they've successfully launched a 12 foot skeleton but that they've made it alive
I just saw the bucket full of Candy Idea, It prompted a mental picture... Candy falling to the ground, Kids running in to get it, and a 12 foot tall skeleton landing on top of them! I know this would be hard to achieve for even the best Cartoon Criminal mastermind. maybe even IRL ones... but it's not impossible!
"His head's missing, he can't think."
Well we've all had days like that...
Your best rocket launch so far!! Most entertaining. Reminiscent of Space X Starship. Good job Xyla! Happy Halloween
I'm pretty sure SpaceX have never launched anything this epic.
Oh my god, that was absolutely incredible and hilarious.
The trajectory reminds me so much of the time I had lost the nosecone and decided to fashion one out of a champagne cork found in a parking lot... memorable.
The children! You forgot the horde of children at ground zero to scramble for the molten gummies, maiming each other in the process! Alright, set up for take 2.
Spooky nerds and aeronautical chicanery, what a time to be alive 🤩
Sometimes I watch a video and think "How'd I find this channel?" And other times I watch a video and think " I'm so glad I found this channel!"
Thus checks both boxes.
I’m crying laughing watching that boy leave all his limbs behind and then twirl into the sunset
Xyla, you have THE coolest friends.
From Spite to Spine, Happy Halloween !
Amazing to see the bucket handle just snap immediately
Daily Dose of Internet Brought me here! I think I might stay a while
Me too
I hope like... a FAR rep or something shows up on site for launch and sees some WILD stuff and goes "Ah, Xyla's here."
Nice Halloween launch Xyla and friends, hoping this joins the Christmas tree launch tradition!
Try launching a pumpkin with candy inside then explode it and a free for to collect it. it would be a controlled launch to dictate the radios. then collect the yummies.
The candy idea was clearly a thing of the moment. Nobody thought about the potential cleanup ...
The gyrating skeleton was pretty funny though.
And the results of the aerodynamic characteristics testing of the scaled up human skeleton are? Appears everyone had fun doing the build except Mr. Skelly. Fun video thanks.
You know you've done something right when Daily Dose features a video - especially from such a niche. Congratulations!
"And honestly, if you haven't caravanned a 12' skeleton with some of your best friends, you haven't lived."-- wow Xyla way to rub it in!
Looking forward to next year’s Flying Easter Bunny and Flying Turkey.
When you launch such an obviously unbalanced rocket, do you have to take special safety precautions for the launch crew? Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
This reminds me of all the estes A engines i zip tied to chopsticks with glued in ejection charges as a kid.
The only thought i had on launch was how hard it would be to measure appogee when there were so many to choose from.
Spooky scary skeletons
Thanks for having us! It was so much fun.
Who knew that a 12’ skeleton wouldn’t be balanced nor aerodynamic? 😂
But… spectacular!
This has good diy vibes. I hope it esplodes in a good way.
Spooktacular episode! Good to see the band back together putting "special" into holiday.
Next year a Witch on a broomstick rocket!
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!
Xyla, Queen Of The Space Skeletons!
So, Christmas is a more aerodynamic holiday than Halloween.
Spooky Skellies, Rocket science and Brain (well, computer) surgery all in one video?
You spoil us.
Most chaotic launch yet? 😂 Too much fun! Continued proof that Xyla is my favorite giant nerd, and that rocket science isn't all srs bsns. Thanks for sharing?
Soooo next year in February a large heart shall launch for valentines. In April an Easter bunny will rise towards the stars. I can’t think of anything appropriate for Mother’s Day.
That may have been the most Xyla thing I have ever seen!!!
I didn’t realise how tall the Skellie was from the thumbnail, this was epic
You have way too much fun for one person - LOL. Stay safe.
Wouldn't is be as much fun is skelly was a witch and riding her broom for the last time :).
That was the most bone chilling rocket video ever! 😂
never seen a group of people so excited about a flying skeleton filled with candy
...never seen a flying skeleton filled with candy.
Neighbors next summer:
“Yeah I know it doesn’t make sense just write it down. Must be willing to live next to a youtuber who builds rocket skeletons. Just write it.”
for next halloween, maybe use witch hat as a nose cone for some stability :D
One heck of a flaming farht! That's giving it the beans!!
Miles away, some poor farmer is just doing his work. Suddenly, plummeting out of the sky in a ball of smoke and flame, crashes a deformed and twisted gigantic skeleton staring at him from out of the crater. XD
Thumbs up SPECIFICALLY for using McMaster bags for piping epoxy. Also, wondering how many points this would be in gymnastics considering ya stuck the landing!
Xyla is clearly, a GOOD witch. 🥰
Success or failure I’m not sure, but it was brilliant, more please. Xyla.
Keep having fun. Thanks