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[robertzeurunkl]

3000+ feet? That's incredible! Well done, sugar rocket. No wonder my kids are bouncing around the room after drinking a lot of soda.

[zaquedavis]

Just hit 4:53 I already vote sugar due to the way that dude looks. He knows rockets.

[committedcoder]

Don't show this to North Korea, it will set them forward at least a year.

[robertdraxel]

-Did you get it from the hardware store?
- No Sir, it's a little bit more complicated than that, BUT IT'S BASICALLY PVC PIPE

[carl-okgn]

i absolutely love how this group of Americans with all the stereotypes of accents, remarks, looks etc fully in tact are doing something so amazing and the brits are watching it.

[generalmax]

I give credit for both the sugar rocket and the pvc rocket. Great job

[Alexagrigorieff]

"Sugar is a great fuel because it has so much Hydrogen in it". Nope. There is a reason they're called Carbohydrates. For every two atoms of Hydrogen in a carbohydrate molecule, there is an atom of Oxygen. The Hydrogen already wasted its energy. The only energy left to burn is from Carbon. This is also why alcohol is not as good fuel as gasoline.

[charging_station]

*That guy from the sugar rocket team is crazy, I like that!*

[spencertapp]

You didn’t give any credit to the video by NightHawk during the acrylic video

[Rocketpax]

Silly comparison. 38mm 4grain sugar motor, likely full "I" class(somewhere around 600Ns), vs a 29mm hybrid which likely came in at a "G" or "H" class(somewhere around 160-300Ns). They didn't really configure the competition to be highest altitude per motor volume, or propellant mass, or anything. They didn't use the same size rocket either. The Sugar motor was just plain bigger, and naturally if you compare a bigger motor and a smaller one, the bigger one will go higher.

[MeepMu]

Hey, please credit nighthawkinlight for his video which you used at 1:15

[thevampz]

This was AMAZING I really enjoyed this.

I like how this vid got straight to the point and it was cool keep it going people.

[ThePOSM]

This is whaat ive been lookin for lol, love the PVC concept, i didnt even think thatd be so effective !

[ziongite]

This is what Hamas use in their Qassam rockets BTW, a sugar plus potassium nitrate mix.
You can use fertiliser to get the potassium nitrate, which is probably where they get it.
Once you pack enough in there, they are able to get their homemade rockets to go up to 30km in distance, which is pretty impressive, it also carries a 10kg explosive head.

[gametrench]

they used nighthawkinlight's video!

[martinscaune]

The sparks in sugar rocket is from added in Iron (III) oxide for better combustion. This can make the fuel 20% more energetic, by increasing the burn rate.

[daveslow]

The sugar rocketeer is wonderfully flamboyant! Sweet guy! 😀

[TrueStrongNorth]

3:49 they made that veteran cover up what he was a veteran of...

[woolfy]

That was awesome. I miss the days of building rockets similar to this.

[zapfanzapfan]

"Sugar rush" is a really good name for a rocket candy driven rocket :-)