If you're struggling, build fast rockets but also please consider therapy with our sponsor BetterHelp. Go to betterhelp.com/xyla for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a licensed professional specific to your needs.

@xylafoxlin

11 ай бұрын

Also, SPITE MERCH: (The mugs have our little trash panda friend onboard!!) Mug: www.xylafoxlin.com/store/p/spite-mug Tshirt: www.xylafoxlin.com/store/p/spite-t-shirt Stickers: www.xylafoxlin.com/store/p/spite-prismatic-sticker

@Tinman_56

11 ай бұрын

😊was curious if NAR membership was required for your launches? Spite, the Xmas tree, etc?

@AdaOnaPC

11 ай бұрын

That's one of the strangest sponsor plugs I've ever heard. Love it.

@markg.1159

11 ай бұрын

Hey Xyla, I'm a big proponent of therapy as well. But BetterHelp got fined by the FTC for literally selling customers' mental health data to Facebook. Presumably they've had to stop now, but that's so insidious I would never trust them again.

@astranger448

11 ай бұрын

Watching a hot girl build rockets IS therapy.....

Remember, BetterHelp sells your heath data to outside companies.

@matiastripaldi406

11 ай бұрын

Besides that, i think it's totally dystopian for there to be a company that has marketized therapy to the point of advertising it in a youtube video

@fios4528

11 ай бұрын

I mean they've pointed out the issues with that particular company, but how do you expect businesses to run without marketing? Believe it or not, word-of-mouth alone is almost never enough to support most businesses

@barbedwings

11 ай бұрын

Sells your mental health details to outside companies to target vulnerable people for advertisements to exploit those vulnerabilities. It's ghastly.

@Hans-gb4mv

11 ай бұрын

@@fios4528 the problem I have is with the American mindset that anything and everything should be profitable. Healthcare is one of those exceptions where profit should not come first, but where we all should help and contribute to ensure everyone can live a healthy life.

@winterwatson6811

11 ай бұрын

i don’t think it’s fair to say that it’s an american approach: it’s wildly unpopular with broad swaths of the population. it’s just that some american’s voices seem to carry more weight than others in our system 🙃

As a retired 74 year old aerospace technology old guy, watching this video was very satisfying on many levels. 1) seeing young people passionate about rocketry fulls my heart with joy. 2) your fabrication & build skills are next level (but you know that) - be proud anyway. 3) test, test, test, test along the way. Hmmmm . . . she is wise too.4) Great effort to be as certain as possible most of your build is recoverable and reusable. Last, at 74 I still tear up every time I watch Falcon boosters land simultaneously. Don't care what you think of da Musk man. You gotta admit that is a sight to behold. Keep up the great work Xyla.

@perrooceaniko2005

2 ай бұрын

Not retired but old Engineer too and fully agree with you. Wonderful job of this girl. Need more like her ...!! She is a REAL influencer. ...... live close to cape canaveral and enjoy the launches ....! 😂

@craigwall9536

Ай бұрын

She ain't "young people". She's one of a kind.

@DeckBuildingKingOfCM

21 күн бұрын

Agree with my fellow old folk… Could have heated the tube to fit over yeah? Like a clutch basket?

As a TRA L3, I am thoroughly impressed with the build quality and overall clear knowledge of high powered rocketry in general - amazing job! Especially when compared to some popular youtubers who bite off more than they can safely chew given their experience, your project and process was a refreshing step in the right direction in terms of youtubers showing safe and well-established build practices. Again, amazing job, I look forward to more FAR shenanigans :)

As a lifelong craftsman your skill level is remarkable and the engineering is totally amazing. I have never worked with carbon fiber so I learned some things. Great video

"Hot glue rhymes with Mach 2" has got to be the single most terrifying phrase I've heard from an engineer and I absolutely love it

@lukasmakarios4998

10 ай бұрын

Yeah. When I heard that, I just knew she was thinking, "I dare ya to tell me it's gonna fall off..." Of course, it didn't.

@dlbuffmovie

9 ай бұрын

HAHAHA....just got to that part in video.

@lyteyearz5810

9 ай бұрын

Lmaooo my favorite and slightly scary part. 😂😂😂

@jeffmccrea9347

9 ай бұрын

In 1968, Creedence Clearwater Revival did a song called Bad Moon Rising. The end of the chorus goes, "There's A Bad Moon On The Rise". People at concerts, as a joke, were singing, "There's A Bathroom On The Right".

@jttech44

5 ай бұрын

That's the difference between a design engineer and a manufacturing engineer.

Over 4 miles straight up!!.. and lands walking distance away !!.. that's one straight true flying rocket.

@fnowat

11 ай бұрын

And steady air

@liam3284

11 ай бұрын

when it goes up that quickly, the wind does not have much time to act on it

@liambohl

11 ай бұрын

@@liam3284 The wind has much more time to act on it while it parachutes back down

@AerialWaviator

11 ай бұрын

8 miles total ... the first 4 took seconds, then the next 4 took minutes.

@neutronium9542

11 ай бұрын

@@liambohl I built and flew a similar rocket to a similar altitude. It went straight up, and then the wind took it 5 miles away under the drogue parachute.

My daughter class had a boat racing event using different type of hulls and motors, she entered, and the boys in her class joked her hard. It was simple kit. She followed all procedures to the T. She picked the right combination and beat them all. She laughed at them as she was holding the 1st place ribbon.

This is the kind of online influencer every father wishes their daughter to follow . What an amazing young lady

@willlienellson7451

6 ай бұрын

Keep your kids off social media, even better.

@ThisHandleIsTakenTryThis

6 ай бұрын

@@willlienellson7451not necessarily

@josephpowell6009

5 ай бұрын

their sons too , for more than 1 reason.

@robertlangley258

4 ай бұрын

@@willlienellson7451......why are you here?

@robertlangley258

4 ай бұрын

@@ThisHandleIsTakenTryThis.........always gotta be one turd in the audience.

The shot with everyone reacting to takeoff was awesome.

@AaronJohnsonSTL

11 ай бұрын

It really puts into perspective how FAST it leapt off the pad with everyone tossing their heads back to track it!

@thedofflin

11 ай бұрын

It also helped me realise how fast that thing was going when they all immediately tilt their heads back.

@thedofflin

11 ай бұрын

@@AaronJohnsonSTL Oh you literally said the same thing LOL

@HansWeberHimself

11 ай бұрын

Best part. Heads tilting up at brake neck speed. 😂

@MarkofT

11 ай бұрын

You have to watch it several times and watch another person each time.

I love that you have fully committed to calling it Boatal Tote. It makes me smile every time you say it.

@ambulocetusnatans

11 ай бұрын

I came here to look for this comment.

@MonkeyJedi99

11 ай бұрын

I was watching another person's video where they used the same product and I knee-jerk thought they were saying it wrong.

@TotalBoat

11 ай бұрын

We wouldn't have it any other way now haha

@ponyote

11 ай бұрын

@TotalBoat very well played. So nice to see companies engaged with their communities.

@ponyote

11 ай бұрын

@MonkeyJedi99 same. I want to say it was a Peter Stripol vid, could be wrong.

"hot glue rhymes with mach 2" love it!, Awesome project, thank you for sharing!

I've had several reloads with tight liners(~20:00) through the years. I usually test fit it in the casing before loading the grains. If it's too tight, I just sand it lightly until it fits normally. I haven't seen the fly away rail guide system before, that is beyond cool!! Great flight, great build!!

Gotta make this comment before finishing this video. The woman clearly didn't do any research about you, cause you are more than a PR girl, you've paid dues, and something I'm proud about brought engineering more coed by being one of the positive role models. Thank you, now back to the video cause I'm excited to see Spite in action.

@Elmo6855

11 ай бұрын

Seriously. And for the record, don't get in Xyla's way when someone tells her that "she can't", 'cuz she will!

@jakobrosenqvist4691

11 ай бұрын

@@Elmo6855 I might just tell her she can't just because I want to see her do it.

@Moshington

11 ай бұрын

That lady shutting down and gatekeeping a female engineer. Literally toxic af.

@NSResponder

11 ай бұрын

Obviously it wasn't about Xyla's credentials. It was standard mean-girl bullying. Name and shame her.

@erniepike3902

11 ай бұрын

And what kind of manipulative gaslighting does she have on everyone else in the group that no one else stood up for Xyla. IDK what group this was but I hope she is not in a position to influence kids.

I don't care what you place is in life; you always will feel like a badass when walking through the desert with a rocket on your shoulder and electric guitar music playing in the background.

@a8495turtle

11 ай бұрын

I’ve had a few times walking through school carrying a rocket or rocket parts. Always feels awesome.

@xylafoxlin

11 ай бұрын

hurts your shoulder though 😅

@SandalWudhu

11 ай бұрын

​@@xylafoxlini would've told you to walk it off, but you already did. That's a beautiful rocket you build there, ma'am.

@Kerballistic

11 ай бұрын

Anytime I ever carry a rocket I feel cool af

@jimfuhrman8665

11 ай бұрын

Spite was a perfect name, and the Rocket on your shoulder walk off was EPIC!!! Next rocket should be called “VINDICATION “. Rock on 🤘🏼 Xyla!!!

That's awesome! It's amazing how much hard work went into building this amazing rocket. I like Xyla's enthusiasm, genuine interest, knowledge. A very uplifting and inspiring video. Thanks!

The tube into tube insertion scene between you two is great. I think we all enjoyed watching it as much as you seemed to have yourselves. 😊

super cool project

@brennanthompson

11 ай бұрын

apparently capitalization is strictly prohibited

@giftmorzel6318

10 ай бұрын

you reckon the nose cone scratches at what level ?

@superfishee.

9 ай бұрын

hello

@EIonMusk1

8 ай бұрын

baId Mr clean bozo

Xyla immediately doing the same pose as Spite the raccoon sticker as soon at the rocket lifted is the energy I want in my life.

Wow!! That was an incredible amount of hard work. I had no idea. From someone that knows nothing about rocket building, that was an amazing job and an amazing launch flight and recovery. Great job. I hope you reached your goals. You certainly deserve it.

Regarding the entire concept, its mission, your flawless precision during construction, the phase testing, final assembly, preflight preparation, setup of the launch rod, mission operations, arming, and the ignition to launch phase of your rocket… …simply put without hyperbole-all facets of your effort can only be judged as absolutely outstanding, astonishing, inspiring, enlightening, exhilarating, invigorating, and damn girl you rock!

What's amazing about all of these rocket videos, not just Xyla's, is just how professional and capable they are getting. This is all "hobbyist" technology, but it's so polished and we're seeing some amazing achievements out of it.

@quincydread5204

11 ай бұрын

as an ex hobbyist myself from 15+ years ago I am blown away by the stuff i have seen on KZread in the last 5 or so.. BPS was maybe the first one to blow my mind

Lesson Learned: When the people you're working with don't recognize the value that you bring and allow you to ascent to the top... build a carbon fibre rocket and use it to blow right past them. I got goosebumps on the countdown - it must've been insane to see it live.

@jeffrowe6004

10 ай бұрын

Elon started with the same spite because someone refused to sell him a rocket.

@safeish57

10 ай бұрын

@@jeffrowe6004 difference is elon didnt make any of the rockets

@dr.swaster8763

10 ай бұрын

Actually he has been quite integral to the development of his rockets. He does hold the captains role.

@dstr1

10 ай бұрын

​@@safeish57you mean that he didn't LABOR on the manufacturing of the rockets! When one build things it's necessary to utilize tools. These tools comes in all forms some mechanical and others in the form of human. If you think it's not essential to apply these tools you've never built much and is unlikely to do so until you have acquired such knowledge. Since every person that has built anything significant had to use tools, be it human, mechanical or both usually both.

@edwardwaltonbespoke5817

10 ай бұрын

​@@dstr1 👍 And I'm pretty sure he was on the production floor one Thanksgiving in order to keep his project on track.

5:30 love it!! So often, the jigs that people come up with are more interesting than the piece they're making

Strutting to the launch pad with a carbon fiber rocket on her shoulder with a casual hair flip is the most Xyla Spite vibe ever and I love it!

@nilo70

10 ай бұрын

You are NOT WRONG

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

10 ай бұрын

Shoutout to the camera operator, too, for completely nailing it.

Beautiful launch! It was my daughter's morning screen time :) Can't describe how much it means to her to see you being you!

I was a bit worried when I didn't see any respirators while you were building the rocket, but then you did. What a wonderful video, you are so talented and extremely engineered.

You rock, young lady! That was an awesome rocket build, launch, fly straight, and recover! Keep following your passions and dreams because this is what makes life really, REALLY EXCITING. (and of course, there will be lots of hard work)

ABSOLUTE W, phenomenal build and a perfect flight! Congrats homie :)

@tka4nik

10 ай бұрын

"True hot girl shit, is laying up your own fin plates" (c)

There is nothing more entertaining than watching Xyla and Joe hitting explosives with a hammer. 😆

@tolkienfan1972

11 ай бұрын

Definitely one of the highlights

@Trojan7575

10 ай бұрын

Wow people fall for this ,therapist are human too and just as predictable when it comes to taking advantage of us all.Im just happy that you didn't show yourself using an angle grinder with carbon Fibre without a mask . It's lethal

@XD-nj7bc

10 ай бұрын

@@Trojan7575 What?

@teddypamperin6232

10 ай бұрын

I was waiting for the typical mechanics wisdom if a bolt it stuck - just add some heat to the outer part and that will make the fit looser until it cools down. Oxy-gas heat is most common. Without the body and nozzle containing /raising /directing the pressure, would the fuel grains just look like a fast burning sparkler?

@drivemenuts3011

10 ай бұрын

It will take many tedious hours and a lot of damage to pull that motor apart. I doubt that heating the outer casing will achieve anything.

That Black and Decker work bench. I have one as well, but it is close to 35 years old. Still works wonderfully.

What a great looking rocket, very well done Xyla!

I started building Estes rockets on my 13th birthday (1965). I still have the launcher my father and I designed as an instantaneous launch option to the old Estes "wait-for-awhile" launcher. I still have the very first issue of the Saturn 1B which I built when I was 16. It's a bit dilapidated now. I'm 71 year old. Shoot for the stars!

@charlesballard5251

9 ай бұрын

Congratulations for being able to hold onto that S1B for so long. I'm 57 and don't have any of the models I built when I was young.

@davidbaker8580

9 ай бұрын

Still have the Mercury and Saturn 1B built in the early 70's. All of the others are gone. I'm 60 now.

@daddyofcallie

9 ай бұрын

I have an unopened Estes box kit (from mid 90s), with a few rockets and launcher, and motors. Never built them with my kids. So I'll be building them with my grandsons soon. I have a rocket from the early 70s that I'll rehab and fly as well. We used to fly them from El Mirage dry lake in CA, then ride mini-bikes to chase them down before they hit the ground.

@Video_Crow

9 ай бұрын

@@daddyofcallie I would recommend not using the old engines when you finish the rockets - my first ever rocket kit was a gift from my uncle who similarly had it in storage for years. First launch using one of the old engines and it barely cleared the launch rod before the ejection charge went off and blew the top off the rocket. I'm guessing the black powder had absorbed moisture over the years or something, but it burned through the entire engine almost instantaneously and the ejection charge was certainly more energetic than normal.

@daddyofcallie

9 ай бұрын

I'll get new engines. Thanks@@Video_Crow

An uncut shot of the full flight from at least one angle would've been nice, I don't think anyone would complain about the video being a little longer

@filipdahlberg4420

11 ай бұрын

Could have let it be at the end or something even or a separate vid

@jonnyphenomenon

11 ай бұрын

True! I can't imagine ever thinking one of xylas videos was too long.😊

@ravenmad9225

11 ай бұрын

My first thought was that after all that effort the camera man missed the shot.

@perryrush6563

10 ай бұрын

I wish it had the video as well.

@1QKGLH

10 ай бұрын

It's part of the current generation raised on youtube shorts, insta, and tiktok. Everything is short clips, substance takes a back seat. Yeah, the whole flight would be been nice.

When I look back to what my friends were doing in rocket club back in the 60's (I sometimes went with them for moral support), they were happy to get anything upwards of 1000 feet. It was like they were playing with model trains, and Xyla is driving locomotives.

I've never been to this channel before, and looking at the 30+ minute runtime I was kinda like .... "nahhhhh ... ... ok, I'll just skip to the launch". BUT .. you really sucked me in and I gotta say I loved every second of it. Spite is absolutely awesome. You did an incredible job. Not just with the rocket, but the video as well! Thanks for the fun ride! New subscriber for sure. ☮

@changingoftheguard7256

9 ай бұрын

Yep

@rakov1

9 ай бұрын

Ditto. All the above.

@markdavis7397

6 ай бұрын

Me too. I never watch videos this long, but I watched the whole thing. Amazing how complicated rockets are at this scale!

Everything about this is as impressive as hell. That schedule was nuts, you didn't miss a milestone, and you hit your target velocity almost dead on. Amazing engineering, project management, and craftsmanship!

The effect the speed had on the decal was incredible

@smokeylovesfire1589

11 ай бұрын

I saw that as well.

@loganr8277

10 ай бұрын

to me it looked like it spelled "Spiss" afterwards and im loving that

@frankierzucekjr

10 ай бұрын

Even after a clear coat.

@modquad18

10 ай бұрын

I assumed heat (from motor) played a role as well??

@AntiVaganza

10 ай бұрын

@@modquad18 or the flames licking it before take off.

Amazing and Congratulations! I remember the thrill of my first Estes Mosquito launch...no words possible to describe your thrill here!

Awsome! And that “botal tote” (7:53) is great stuff! 😅

Absolutely loved the project and the end result. Just a word of caution at 5:21 as you move both hands to the outside stack of MDF while cutting on the table saw. With the piece being wider than it was long and pushing from the "outside" of the blade, you are introducing a twisting force on the wood, pinching the back of the blade while not securing the piece between the blade and the fence. This can result in bad kickback and jamming/launching of the part between the fence and blade - often straight back but sometimes up and/or sideways depending on what part of the wood gets caught by the blade.

@nigelboycenigeb1374

10 ай бұрын

You are absolutely right the twisting force can cause kickback but isn't that what the riven blade behind the cutting blade to stop the wood twisting? You can just see the riven blade poking up tp the right of the cutting blade at 5.21? Not to diminish your comment as its fair and it causes serious injury if there's kickback

That's an absolutely awesome rocket, an absolute joy to see built and launched.

@MonkeyJedi99

11 ай бұрын

And the Raccoon Federation approves of the chosen pilot.

That was so cool absolutely spectacular all the work you did to make this rocket fly and being successful Mark 2.3 what a performance😊

I've watched just under 1/2 of this video thus far and I am subscribing. This showed up in my recommended videos and I will now (after finishing the video) go down the carbon fiber rabbit hole. Something I always had an interest in before but now I have to learn more. Great video!

My daughter loves rockets so I showed this to her to let her know that she can build rockets, too. She watched part of the video and asked, "Why she no go in it?" She is 2 years and 9 months old, but is asking the important questions.

@haesol16

10 ай бұрын

awhhh so precious

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

10 ай бұрын

One of these days...

@rafsh1846

10 ай бұрын

🤗🤗

@mikelemoine4267

10 ай бұрын

It's great that you are reinforcing that she can do whatever she sets her mind to. Imagine what technology will be like by time she's of working age.

@f-puppet4059

10 ай бұрын

'hot girl shi*' means a hot girl, doing hot shi*. It doesn't mean any gender. It doesn't mean a fat, ugly girl. it means a hot girl, such as yourself. Just clearing things up for the mentally unstable people: you know, the ones that are guys that say they're girls, and the girls that use preferred pronouns. thank you, internet.

Idea: for bulkhead epoxy, since it's difficult to see inside the tube, use UV-reactive pigment so that a black light will make it glow :)

@JayWye52

10 ай бұрын

or a little UV-LED flashlight.

I built Century Rockets from the mid 70's to about '78, when I was in high school. Had I met someone like you who could light up the room like you do and make my hobby look cool, we would have been soulmates for life, lol. My friends would watch me launch my rockets, which with a CX7 could hit just shy of 2000 feet, and I flew them at my high school in the Napa Valley, the only place big enough that I knew I could find my rocket, which sometimes under the chute landed up to a qtr mile away. It would take off out of sight. I suspended a tennis match much to the anger of my HS's tennis coach, when the sound of my rocket on one flight stunned everyone at the match and I an my friends were almost marked as dweebs for life, my only salvation is I was the best cyclist on campus. Your video is truly enjoyable, you are a good rocketry coach and that's four decades of post college teaching talking, lol, in the tourism systems science field. My daughter is good at explaining things like you do, now getting her Masters in International Studies, and she was not into rocketry, but was into crafts and computer science.

I love watching crazies with passion. One clever lady.

I respect that the name of the rocket is based on what its fuel is. Good on you!

Calling you out as "PR-Girl" is absolutely despising your talent, ingenuity and hard work as an engineer to such a degree that you call the Rocket _Spite._ You go Girl!

@circuitguy9750

11 ай бұрын

Wow. No kidding. Also, even if someone thought Xyla was just there for PR, wouldn't you want the PR person in the pictures, you know ... for public relations?! Serious dick move. 😔

@sixoffcenter80

11 ай бұрын

I feel like "PR-girl" is just like a weird backhanded way of walling her an influencer.

@jttech44

5 ай бұрын

@@sixoffcenter80 It's more of "generic hotgirl who doesn't know anything", which, hellofan insult, but ultimately the polar opposite of the truth, with or without the bad ass all carbon rocket she built.

@snorman1911

3 ай бұрын

I'm only here because this shewed in my feed and the thumbnail is a typical "look at me I'm a girl" pic that would look ridiculous would a man do the same thing. And why not, with all the leg humpers.

When you’re done, self gratifying yourself and patting yourself on the back light that candle

That has to be one of the most impressive things I have seen in a very long time. Absolutely epic!

@tonyromano6220

7 ай бұрын

And the rocket is nice as well.

I admit I've not watched the whole thig here but Xyla is one of the top ten creators out there. The old argument about "style over content" or "content over style" doesn't apply because she has both. It's educational, she's pretty, rockets are cool, slightly better than kitten videos and I'm doing nothing again. Thx Xyla, thanks a bunch.

@neglectfulsausage7689

11 ай бұрын

I thought it was funny she cant legally say how to make the rocket parts when she is making them legally.

@sparrowbe4k802

11 ай бұрын

@@neglectfulsausage7689 I think she means she'll wind up getting heavily censored and maybe even kicked off youtube. The number of channels I watch where they say "we can't out it on here because of the algorithm." It's getting silly now.

Thank you for showing the whole process from build to launch in one video instead of a six-part mini-series.

Outstanding Job Xyla! Thanks for inspiring me!

I have not seen a good rocket video on KZread in a minute (blame the algorithm). Love the reasoning why you named the rocket “Spite”. Watching you get on the task of carbon fiber fabrication with good old fashioned know how and modern tooling, to packing a rocket motor & having ridiculous amounts of fun with a good friend (blow up your buddies garage 😂)…dude that’s love of aerospace!! Keep ‘em flying!!

3:15 Wow composites are really simple? I'm going to start a submarine company now. Thanks for the inspiration.

@nekko3559

11 ай бұрын

I'd pay atleast 250k to get a seat!

@cholulahotsauce6166

11 ай бұрын

Very simple, off the shelf parts.

@AlbertaGeek

11 ай бұрын

And if any engineer specializing in submersibles tells you your design is shit, you can just resolve the issue by firing them!

@spvillano

2 ай бұрын

@@AlbertaGeek and using expired airplane carbon fiber isn't exactly a grand idea when one's pushing the most extreme of extreme conditions this side of gas giants.

This was so freaking awesome!! Go Spite!

Lazy Friday night working on a long distance UAV and found this channel....... And i think i also found love 😍🥰 totally geeking out on rockets!!!

This was one of the coolest random vids I've ever seen, and now I have to subscribe! Really cool!

Camera man blew the shot… lol - I feel like I watched this entire video, and I only saw five seconds of the rocket in the air… with that said great job the rocket flew very straight and you did an amazing job!

Spite might just be the best rocket pilot ever, but her ground crew, led by Xyla, are wholesome splodey fun peeps!

I've been working on programming a custom flight computer from off-the-shelf components... projects like this give me the motivation I need to continue!! Sweet shit!

Awesome! Congrats on the successful launch.

Oh hell yeah, Xyla. Congrats on the L3. As always, you rock. I am learning so many techniques from this video.

eyo Xyla, Im a boatbuilder and though I mostly work with polyester, sometime I work with epoxy. I dont know if you ever experienced it, but removing your nylon "non-stick" from epoxy has somewhat of a piezo-electric effect that you can see.. whenever we work with epox, we always dim the the lights before ripping off the nylon....it looks otherworldy! :)

@jameswoll

11 ай бұрын

Triboluminescence!

@0GregorSchultz0

11 ай бұрын

@@jameswoll thanks, I Forgor :D

@BloodAsp

11 ай бұрын

Possibly x-ray production as well.

just discovered your channel.....I have to say you are a pretty amazing human being! I'm now dreaming of things I can make out of carbon fiber! Thanks for the fun and entertaining videos and the inspiration.

Definitely in my top 10 videos ever. I most especially enjoyed the hugely positive attitude (necessary for everything), and the cure epoxy dances; also necessary for everything. Imagine if everyone was as happy and excited about what they do…

Pointless story: I was heavy into rocketry 20 years ago, back in the day when flight computers were just coming online and GPS was new and expensive. I wanted to build my own GPS tracker that transmitted a position on the 2m ham radio band into the APRS network. To do so I would need a ham radio technician license. At the testing site, after I had passed the technician test, the proctor asked if I wanted to take the General class license test while I was there. Not having studied for it, I failed the test by one question. Gauntlet thrown, I came back the next month prepared to take the General and Extra exams, including the Morse code test, and passed all. Consumed by a new hobby, I never finished that tracker nor ever launched another rocket.

Whenever you need to remove the motor, heat up the metal enclosure with a heat gun, it will expand and make it easier to slide out (it would also have helped to get it inside)

@KevinLyda

11 ай бұрын

Heat gun, rocket propellant, I can understand a little reluctance there. But yeah, definitely on the way out!

@brianlee6849

11 ай бұрын

Maybe the opposite cool the motor then there's no danger.

@brianlee6849

11 ай бұрын

For installation

@Splarkszter

11 ай бұрын

@@KevinLyda Propellant needs hundreds of degrees, a couple tens is not big deal.

@matteyas

11 ай бұрын

​@@KevinLyda The propellant ignites at 600+ °F if I'm not mistaken, so there's quite some room for heating the tube for assembly as well.

Best deserved “so cool!” I’ve ever written in my life! Nice work!!! Congratulations.

Thats the effing coolest rocket launch I have ever seen! Great video.

Best way to prove the naysayers, build a damn rocket yourself. Now that's baller!

And Xyla engages in rocket science. Nice to see you excited and smiling again. Wish I could join a science club with people who are so engaged as you are. Learning while having fun has to be the one of the best things in life.

Excellent job on the rocket!!! Congrats Xyla!

I am into amateur radio (Ham Radio), but I stumbled upon this video. And it was... AWESOME! Great job, Congratz!

Amazing work! You even got a bit of spin action too. If this is the result of someone making you spiteful, I pity anyone who makes you _really mad!_ Keep this up and you'll be sending a rocket to space in no time!

@jakobrosenqvist4691

11 ай бұрын

Then spite come careening trough your livingroom wall.

@akakscase

11 ай бұрын

She already sent one to an altitude that exceeds the limit of many light aircraft. But what most engineers and aerospace designers consider “space” is 528,000 feet up. There is a reason rockets that can truly reach that height don’t use a solid fuel.

You're mood carries through in your communication, your pacing is excited and full of energy. I'm glad you're doing well!

Best line in your video "This is like $3000 worth of stuff, Im gonna light on fire". LOL

@ 7:35 I agree, looks amazing. And that rocket isn’t looking bad either!

The camera won't bias the aero as long as there's another camera (or camera-shaped block of cardboard & hot glue) on the other side and they're mounted with X and Y mirror symmetry rather than rotational symmetry.

Wait…. Did you just say “Boatal Toat”?? 😂 Glad to see you back in action, Xyla. Great build! Amazing engineering from an even more amazing person. Hope you’re well 😁

@revodrvr

9 ай бұрын

I caught that as well

As a USAF Minuteman ICBM Missileer, I found this highly entertaining. Great work!

Stunning and beautiful, and the rockets hot too.

That was absolutely awesome, and worth the wait! Well done Xyla, and well flown Spite! It was bound to be amazing - you couldn’t have something look that great on the ground not fly spectacularly 🎉

For simple, faster, better FILLETS order a bag of 3m Glass Bubbles (usually called micro) from Aircraft Spruce. In a dixie cup, mix the bubbles with the same epoxy you'll be using with your cloth, until you have a peanut butter kind of paste, use a tongue depressor to create the profile, and put your cloth down. A better chemical bond, no waiting or sanding. Hope this helps. Also try flocked cotton for larger radii fillets.

wow, your enthusiasm is awesome. I'm an old man and totally enjoyed Spite's launch.

Wow!! Xyla is so rocking cool! Great personality! Great IQ! Great imagination! Great fashion! Great home decoration! Great raccoon decal! Great articulation! Awesome eye candy! (Am I allowed to say this?) Fun project! AND nice machine shop!! Watching the video was great therapy for me!

That was awesome! So many thoughts. First: yay for remembering that scheduling time for "things that keep me sane" is sooo important. It's easy to get caught up in "but this is a hobby, it should be fun," and forget to do something simple like hang with your mates. Second: I feel like the camera work for the first sequence in the workshop was really good, so shoutout to the camera operator. Third: at the end, I was struck by the sheer *history* in this rocket. Twenty-first century electronics stuffed inside a vehicle built using late twentieth century materials, launched off a rail that hasn't really changed since 1944, and propelled using a method that is basically unchanged from 1880s naval artillery. Even the building techniques range from modern computer-controlled tools all the way back to hand-work that is thousands of years old. I know this sort of thing is all around us, but this rocket just made me really see the way everything comes from somewhere and it all chains together like falling dominoes to give us the world we have today. Too deep? Well, be proud that you can inspire such thoughts. :D

There are loads of things I love when I get to watch your records of what you do. Here are a few that come to mind right after finishing this one: you work hard, you have fun, you have friends there to help and share in the joy of what you do. That all comes across as just part of the way you do things, whatever it is you do. That is not true with lots of other creators; they might have all these things, but not all make it as clear and vital as you do. Thanks for another uplifting lift up!

Wow - rocket science in action! So cool!

That is incredible stuff, so impressive, congrats!

what a great build, the carbon weave is gorgeous and i'm honestly suprised the sticker got peeled off by the sheer speed despite being covered in clear coat! Would love to see a short video or a youtube commnuity post talking about post launch, such as the motor delining, what happened to the camera and telemetry data (if there is anything to share)

*My brother and I grew up building and launching Model Rockets, so this was one awesome video.* *Thanks for posting it.*

That was so bad ass! Awesome build!!

Was fun to watch you build this. Awesome launch

I had some west epoxy carbon fibre part do Mach 2 a decade or two ago, though to be honest it was only for a brief amount of time, it wasn't designed to be a rocket and it wasn't planned.

Although I've never done any rocketeering (yet!), I am an engineer and so watching your attention to detail at the same time as such joyful enthusiasm, had me grinning like a happy camper myself when Spite lit up and rocketed(!) away... it is so much fun to explore new things by experiment, especially when you do it yourself.. Great Job, not just in building the device but communicating the feelings as well!

brilliantly done and very entertaining, thank you

This was AWESOME. Mad respect.