World Record 2-Stage Water Rocket - 5,313 feet (1.62km)

This is a highlights video of our Horizon high pressure 2 stage water rocket record flight to 5313 feet. This flight took place at Mullaley, NSW Australia on 10th August 2024.

This is also Part #43 of the Horizon Series

[TomStantonEngineering]

Wow!!! Huge congratulations George and the team! After following the whole build series, I can't imagine how happy you are with that launch!! It looked perfect

[aqimjulayhi]

I've been watching you guys since I was 11. Now I'm a week shy of being 29, and I'm still amazed at what you guys do. Love to see you guys going strong after all these years. Congrats George and crew!

[dman]

I was a child when you guys started making these rockets. You inspired me to make my own water rockets, and a great memory of mine was building one, with a launch computer, that released a parachute and safely sailed back down! Now, almost 20 years later, and you're still making amazing rockets :)

[BonesFPV]

That second kick was something else. Congrats George.

[lukealization]

What an engineering marvel. Perfect flight. The countless hours you all have put into this project paid off amazingly well. Congratulations on the record.

[strtokster]

Insane This is just incredible !!! GG from France, you're definitly the final boss of water rocketery !!!

[peraltarockets]

Congratulations. Wonderful to see all y'all's work over the past few years on this project come to fruition.

[jasonsaj.]

Been watching for all these years in the making, amazing flight. Your perseverance and work has always been inspirational. Congratulations 🎉

[AscensionRocketryHamburg]

Congratulations, it has been a pleasure to follow the build, which took longer than anyone would expect. 6 years to make it to this moment is crazy. We only been building rockets for a third of that time. The achievement is mind-blowing. We are exited to see the way predictions and real flight data might differ and all that nice nerdy stuff.
Thanks for sharing this with the world and for being the team which makes more people come into this hobby. Who knows? Last time when you broke a world record many new folks joined in. That would be something to look forward to in this hobby so few truly take far enough.
Greetings from Hamburg Germany

[Briaaanz]

I remember starting to follow you many years ago. My housemate's kid needed off the couch, so i did giant soap bubbles with her and then 2 liter water rockets. I progressed a bit farther using the wind up toy timers for example. That kid is now well into their college years.
I think it's incredible and amazing how far you have pushed something like simple water rockets to the point of setting a world record.
A mile+ high flight?!? I thought getting several hundred feet was impressive.
You rock. Congrats again!

[jacquev]

This is an amazing reward for your persistence and dedication to this project. I'm so glad you're documenting this with your videos. A million congratulations and a million thanks !

[not-clement]

Congrats George! I've been following your work since 2014 and it's absolutely amazing!

[kingboospaceeft-]

I've watched Aircommand Rockets since 2019 and seeing this rocket finally launch after all these years is unbelievable. Congratulations!

[randominternet]

Wow, that went MUCH better than I expected even though the care was obvious in the build, there are normally kinks to work out with any new rocket. What a flight - amazing it's water - very very cool. The staging on the way up, stability on way up and recovery etc all looked good! Huge congrats - been fun to follow along and finally see it fly.

[arro_rockets]

OH YES!! Congrats George and everyone who made this project happen! Unfortunately couldn't make it to this Mullaley event but I had a colleague witness it!

[Alterscapes]

Congratulations from a long-time viewer! Looks like a great launch, happy to see you got a record out of it!

[RobertMcGeachy]

Amazing! It's been a joy to watch this project come to fruition. Looking forward to hearing more details! Congratulations!

[mircotaraborelli]

Wow!! We are all waiting this moment for a long time!
You inspired me for my little rocketry project, next level we would like to see a thrust nozzle managed to coming back the rocket vertically! :D

[gelvy-qf]

What an amazing launch, that second stage was spectacular! Hearty congratulations for the incredible result of your hard work and passion.

[stratos]

After years and years of work, it finally flew! Amazing to see. Also that music... Flashbacks to when I was many years younger, some of the first videos I ever saw on YouTube were of your channel, I remember the original two stage rocket as if it was yesterday.