the Slow Mo Guys, I'm almost giddy with excitement

Yeah I can't wait. We got a

rocket here. We're here in Indiana

at Purdue University where some very

smart students have made this rocket.

Yeah, it's pretty cool this is a, for all you

boffins out there, this is a G motor,

g-type motor and it uses the same solid

fuel as a space shuttle. Like the solid rocket

booster? Yeah. Except it's made of

bog roll and plywood. There's a slight

difference. Slight difference there, yeah. Also, this is pretty cool,

the bottom part, the rocket motor, goes from

here to here, yeah, by the time it gets to

here, it's going 130 miles an hour and

these things can break the speed of

sound. So in like 4 feet it's accelerated

to 130 miles an hour? Yes, yeah, and it goes

over a thousand feet. We're gonna need a

fast camera for this. We are, yeah, let's

yeah, let's send it to the moon!

Absolutely, well just shy. Just shy a lot,

So for the close-up, we'll shoot on

the V 2511 at 28.5

thousand frames per second. Ooooh, fast!

We're gonna need it. Very fast. And we'll get

the wide on the old 4k over

there. Crisp. Crisp. So we need to crisp

wide and the slow tight? Yeah. Sweet, I've

got a job as well, this is what I'm

excited about. You're gonna be

carrying behind something over there.

I'll be filming. I've got the key of

dreams. Oh, look at that. What you do is, very

similar to the space shuttle. Yeah. You

actually hook you up to a car. NASA

do this. They sacrifice the car every

time. You didn't know that true fact. So I'm

gonna stick it in this little sort of

exciting pad and when the light goes off,

I'll push go and hopefully that thing is

gonna absolutely just, disappear. Yeah.

Ok. Five, four, three, two, one!

That was sweet! It's coming down!

I'm gonna catch it, I don't know if it will work.

That is coming down. Lovely!

it's so much brighter than our

surroundings, I kind of want to just do a

super dark one, all right.

Basically obliterate all the surroundings

but just so we can see slightly more

detail. I think it'll still blur out

white. But, you'll see a little bit

more. So now we're going to get close-up

of that. It's very bright, very sparky, so

I'm going to move the camera in and I'm

going to turn the exposure way down, so

it's not you're going to be a very dark

image until the rocket ignites, and then

hopefully we should see some lovely

detail there. Until the meaty part. We'll see

all the rocket meat. Very close. I'm gonna

get even closer. I'm gonna get even

closer. I can get that and you in the

same frame here. So at this point in the video,

we're just going to repeat the same

rocket and I was focused on getting that

fast camera right up in there for the

extreme close-up and the wide was kind of

secondary at this point. We've already

got the wide. It's going to be the same for

this one. So I don't have any footage of

this but I do have my mic audio of me

putting out this question: "does anyone

want to have a go on the phantom and

track the rocket? Just try give it a go."

So one of the students volunteered and I

ran him through the whole thing, I just

said follow the rocket up, press the red

button within four seconds, don't bother

looking at the screen - look it with your

eye and just jam the handle down

because it will be that fast and there's

not really any risk to it. If the shot

doesn't work, that's fine we still got

the close-up. He absolutely nailed it and

we'll see his shot in just a little bit.

Okay ready? Yeah, I think I'm in the GoPro

shot here as well. Right, okay. Five,

four, three, two, one!

That was it. We may have just lost the GoPro, it's not even

ours this time. But by my calculations that's four

GoPros we've lost. Another casualty. Yeah, another GoPro

casualty.

It looks like a much bigger shuttle.

Because it's so slow. It's

like "buooom". Like a really big one, but it's

actually just gone up, 130

miles an hour. If it wasn't for the PVC

and dictionary, yeah, that would look

like a NASA shot. You could have put like a

really accurate model of a person there,

yeah, massive. Look at that.

That's so cool. See, that's where the exposure is good here,

because if I was in the old exposure, all of that

would be white, or not. You can see the sparks hitting

the pad, yeah, there's actually

yellow detail. That is my music.

Look at that. Who thought a rocket could be

that beautiful?

It's raining sparks, I love that. That is pure class.

You nail this, I'm gonna be annoyed. No way!

That's awesome. Never used the Phantom before. You can

now retire. You'll replace Dan.

Ok, so, it got windier and we took some weight out

of the top of our last one because we wanted to go

faster and further, but that meant that it kept falling over,

So I had to put dictionaries

on the floor in classic Slow Mo Guys style.

Yeah, we don't have any sandbags or anything very useful, but we

do have two dictionaries. Dictionaries, yes!

Slap 'em down. But we are at university.

That was awesome. Loved it. Oh, Jesus, Gary!

We retrieved the GoPro. Yes! It was in a

tree. You say we did, we were filming, we

had nothing to do with it, we had a very

talented team of GoPro rescuers coming.

Just for that purpose. Just in case we lost a GoPro. It

was like 20 feet in the branches apparently.

I thought some of that footage was

lovely. Can you keep that rod away from my face? Sorry,

I'll put it away. I'm amazed that they

went so high that I had time to trigger

both cameras, then run to the DSLR, pick

it up, and still see it in the sky. Apart

from my job of pushing the button, I was

trying to find it because at one point

like 2,000 feet all I could see

was smoke I said "where, where is it? I've got no idea."

Well hopefully you enjoyed that video.

Special thanks to Purdue University in

Indiana for having us and you know,

letting us launch rockets. Yeah, it's class.

That's probably the highest bog roll has

ever got. Right. Feel free to follow us

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subscribe. We got 2nd channel too? Oh yeah.

Usually I'm playing pranks on Dan, he's

not so happy about it but I have a great

time over there on the second channel. To make

up for that I'm going to go and play

with these rockets again and you do

camera stuff. What clean up? Yeah, just

clean up. Ahhh. I'm gonna go over there and launch one of these. Alright. Ok?

Yeah.