208 Landing Model Rockets! Ft. BPS.Space
Flite Test: Aviation - RC Planes - Multirotors
Flite Test
4.9 • 600 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Flite Test Podcast, James sits down with Joe Barnard from BPS.Space to talk about self-landing model rockets.
Joe Barnard has been making headlines as a self-taught engineer who is trying to recreate Space X technology in miniature. Even grabbing the attention of Elon Musk, he's really getting people excited about what's next for the hobby of model rockets. On this podcast, we talked to him about the value of backyard engineering.
If you want to get into model rockets, you can find out lots of helpful information on BPS.Space. Here's a link.
This episode of the Flite Test Podcast was sponsored by SkillShare. Get two months of SkillShare free by following this link and signing up. You can cancel anytime.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome back to the flight test podcast. My name is James Formsley, and this is the podcast where we talk to people from around the world of aviation about topics that inspire. |
| 0:14.0 | This week I'm sitting down with the Elon Musk of the model rocket slash DIY aerospace world, who has been famed on YouTube for his mission to land a model rocket, |
| 0:23.2 | just like the full-sized SpaceX Boosters. His name is Joe Barnard. We talked about the value of |
| 0:29.7 | doing science in your own backyard and the importance of hands-on learning. Just getting your hands on, |
| 0:36.3 | like being able to do engineering and observe the changes that |
| 0:39.2 | you make have an effect on the performance of the vehicle, hands on learning is I think the most |
| 0:44.7 | effective way to get, to learn something. If you can have a tool that you can play with and modify |
| 0:53.2 | and work with as you're learning how to, how rockets work or how an airplane works. |
| 1:00.9 | If you can, you know, adjust the flight controller in your airplane and see if the autopilot works or whatever. |
| 1:08.2 | Hands on learning is just so effective. |
| 1:10.3 | Before we jump into this great conversation, |
| 1:12.4 | though, we should quickly mention that this episode of the flight test podcast has been |
| 1:16.9 | sponsored by Skillshare. Skillshare is an online learning community where you can learn about |
| 1:22.2 | anything from physics to graphic design. Within the site, you'll find over 25,000 different online courses. You've probably |
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| 1:36.6 | forward slash Skillshare and you can get up to two months of Skillshare for free when you sign up, |
| 1:43.4 | which is pretty good. |
| 1:50.6 | Simply type into your browser that address or follow the link in the podcast description. |
| 1:57.5 | Okay, back to the podcast. This was a really great conversation with Joe. I learned a lot and I think you will too. |
| 2:35.3 | So let's get into it. This is episode 208 of the flight test podcast. Today I'm joined by Joe Barnard. |
| 2:41.2 | So hi Joe. How are you doing? Good. How are you? I'm very well. Thanks. Nice to have you on the podcast. |
| 2:51.3 | So yeah, why don't we start off by talking about who you are and what you do? Because you're sometimes referred to as the Elon Musk of model rockets. I've seen in a lot of comments on YouTube. |
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