Rocketry Videos

Airpower (model rockets) (2008-12-08)

H.A.R.T. Hornchurch Airfield Rocket Team (UK) flying model rockets in the late nineties. See an Aerotech E-25 powered supersonic Merlin (converted Zinger) rescued from a lake, a 'G' powered ... [View]

Catching a Model Rocket (2007-09-17)

Cameraman - Laurie Calvert - actually catches a Big Bertha rocket whilst filming it.  [View]

Clustered Staged Model Rocket (2007-09-17)

LLOL Snr has 4 'D' motors, two staged and two clustered. This means it fires two sets of motors in pairs, which is quite tricky to accomplish. Easier really to have one big motor! But that is the ... [View]

Full Tilt (model rockets) (2008-12-08)

H.A.R.T. (Hornchurch Airfield Rocket Team) in operation flying rockets. We were interviewed on the radio at a kite event we attended. Including a 5-stage rocket, an RC copter gunship, the club in ... [View]

Into the Blue (model rocketry) (2008-12-08)

Model rocket flying with HART club in the UK. Filmed and edited on video in the late nineties. Including X-Wing, Mean Machine, clustered motors, and an RC plane. [View]

Into The Blue - Model Rocketry in the 90s (2008-04-12)

Hornchurch Airfield Rocket Team in the 90s in Hornchurch, Essex, UK. This was a fairly typical launch day with an R/C rocket glider, a Tomcat burying itself into the ground, and a Big Bertha being ... [View]

LOLL Supersonic Model Rockets (2008-12-08)

Using E-25-7 Aerotech ammonium perchlorate core burning motors, single-use. In a light weight rocket, with plastic wings (ali metal was too heavy) and epoxy joints, the impulse of an E-25 can just ... [View]

Model Rockets with HART (2008-04-12)

Hornchurch Airfield Rocket Team in the 90s. See a rocket chuff off the pad, land in water, underpowered flights and what happens, how trees get in the way, an 8 stager that was too tail heavy, a ... [View]

Rocket CATO (2007-09-17)

Model rocket CATOstrophic launch. The Silver Comet is an Estes Retro kit. Looks wonderful. But not when the motor blows up inside! At least the second flight was ok later on. www.calvertfilm ... [View]

Rocketeers (2008-12-08)

Model rocketry from H.A.R.T. in the late nineties in Hornchurch in the UK. The club would grow to 226 members at one point, and regularly have 50 people at a meet. We met every weekend too, whatever ... [View]

Thrust (model rockets) (2008-12-08)

HART rocket club formed in the late nineties, flying model rockets. Here you'll see the first run of the Lightstorm rocket car which went on to do well in BBC's Techno Games, a clustered/staged ... [View]