Aluminum TVC Mount | Scout Flights 2 and 3

Working hard to keep up a high flight rate with Scout F. We learn a little more each time and we're gonna land this thing one way or another!

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[omarflores]

The fact that it did a belly flop then back to vertical even though it still didn't land successfully was still amazing to see! A huge amount of respect and props to you Mr. Benard!!! Keep it going

[NicholasRehm]

The 3 stages of control engineer grief all present in one video:
1. "I can add a filter to fix it."
2. "Filter didn't work. Need better hardware."
3. "It's all working! ... if it was actually where it thought it was."

I think I've gone through this cycle on every single one of my projects lol

[mikegofton]

Its really enjoyable to see how you overcome the engineering challenges.
When you stick the landing, you will join a very exclusive club of engineers that can reverse park a rocket (non destructively).

[mariusholle]

Closely Check 0:26 to about 0:32 - While the engine is not running, your control system is. This leads to a massive over correction when the second motor lights up. Think about shutting down gimbaling until the second motor is running. This would have made the flight MUCH smoother and easier to land. As you know the engines have a very high thrust right in the beginning and then the thrust sharply falls off. If that high amount of thrust is used for gimbaling, you'll have to use the entire rest of the thrust to correct it. - Alternatively you can use the high thrust for gimbaling but you have to dial the angle down to a fraction for this small amount of time

[dinobm]

As my wife I suffering with cancer you are a bright spot in my life. Love you little jokes and am glad to see you got over the Covid blues. Keep up the great work.

[SixOThree]

“It’s the summer of Scout.” Bring it on!

[DrewB]

Our boi tony pepperoni back with another bepis spase video

[beansdad]

It’s going to work eventually. I can’t wait to see one successfully land.

[LesNewell]

A few thoughts. I used to be involved in quadcopter software development and the loop rate can make quite a difference. Some digital servos will run up to 400Hz. At that rate mechanical inertia may well help damp out spikes. It depends on the source and frequency of the spikes.
To make a simple lightweight damper for the landing gear take two carbon tubes where one fits inside the other. Add a bit of grease on the sliding surfaces for damping. You can get silicone damping grease in a wide variety of viscosities so you can tune the damping rate. If you seal the ends of the tubes you can also use the trapped air as a spring. The grease will seal well enough for the short time you need to hold pressure. You can adjust the spring rate by adjusting the ratio of open to compressed air volume.

[DprintedLife]

Oh man so close, it looked really good until the landing part...! Awesome shirt btw

[asdasfdfgewqgrgyjh]

This is some of the most beautiful machine footage ive ever seen in my life and it was just for a 10 second clip in your video.
Some of those shoots deserves to be presented in a museum

[bradnarraway]

Keep it up, Joe! Your ability to analyze what went wrong during each particular flight is perhaps your greatest gift - every iteration is a new challenge, but it's always something new that you're tweaking / improving / trying. It has been a lot of fun to watch (along with your high-altitude, parachute-assisted-descent rockets!), and I'll be here to watch every video to see how this project progresses!

[haboo]

Hey! Been watching you for years! Im happy to see how far you've come!

[_PranavDesai]

The irony if Scout 4 makes it through!

[rickotap]

the machined ''beams' you now use on your TVC mount look like you could still strip a lot of material from them. Milling through it to generate a U-shape should leave you with a part that is maybe 80% lighter, and probably just as stiff. weight that could go to something else, or just to a little more height.

[Drew_TheRoadLessTraveled]

For the motor mount hardware, I would suggest you look at the cyclic control of the Align 700E RC Helicopters. Maybe include thrust bearings in the gimble. Love watching the ingenuity and enthusiasm. It takes a dedicated man to launch at dawn.

[StudioMedia]

I think it's incredible you've done even this much! That 3rd flight was so close! Awesome job

[DualDesertEagle]

This is now 1 of the extremely, *_EXTREMELY_* few channels that have succeeded in making me wanna follow along on their journey enough to make me subscribe.

[ЕвгениГеоргиев-тя]

I like the fact that after 5 years you keep trying and improving.

[capnrotbart]

The third flight was really, really good, amazing. That was probably the best landing attempt I’ve seen so far.