I Bow To a Greater Power

This is one of many YouTube videos documenting Steve Eves' world record breaking (shattering, really) Saturn V. By far the largest model rocket, let alone a scale model rocket, ever flown by an amateur. And it's museum-quality scale work. The kind of detail normally reserved for static displays that don't risk damage.



It's a 1/10 scale of the biggest thing that's ever flown. As impressive as the Space Shuttle is, the Saturn V was roughly four times the size, an 8 million pound bomb we put our best and brightest on top of for the moon missions.



Here's a photo showing Steve's project at the feet of the real thing in Huntsville, AL.

For a sense of how big this is, the motors I fly my stuff on are generally in the five to forty newton second range. A 40ns motor puts Floyd, the biggest of my fleet, up in a hurry.



This Saturn V model flew on 8 13,000ns motors clustered around a 77,000ns motor. If you want to get the best part of a ton up to 3,000 to 4,000 feet, you need a lot of motor.



Yowza.