A look inside a burning rocket engine
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 07:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Here's a bit of pretty amazing hobby rocket porn. Ben Krasnow walks us through—in a rather matter-of-fact way—of how he built a hybrid rocket engine in his shop using a piece of acrylic so he could see inside and watch the gaseous oxygen burn. As one commenter on You Tube described it, "Hey guys, I was bored, so I built a transparent rocket engine in my garage. No big deal."