Sugar Rockets

Tired of spending big money every time you want to launch a rocket. Buy your rocket fuel at 7-Eleven next time, that’s what James Yawn did. Apparently Pixy Stix make good rocket fuel, if you are skeptical as I was have a look at the videos!

Sugar Rocket Launch 1
Sugar Rocket Launch 2
Sugar Rocket Launch 3

Sugar Motor Test

Snickers Bar and Potassium Nitrate Burn Test

“Airframe is an Estes Alpha model. Motor contains 7 grams of Pixy Stix propellant, plus another 4.5 grams to create smoke trail and initiate parachute ejection. It is very similar to the motor static-tested the previous day using this same propellant.”

6 Comments


  1. Awesome, ive been interested in RCandy for along time, never got around to making nay though. Wish you best of luck.
    PS Ever thouhgt of using hydrogen peroxide? i think the site is

    http://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/indexi.html
    best of luck
    Hope i have helped you.


  2. If you do however use hydrogen peroxide better put a pretty strong frame around the catylist, last thing ya need is for that to become trashed lol have fun 🙂


  3. i mite do this 4 science fair
    lol
    tnx


  4. this is awsome is it just pixy stix or is there sometine else


  5. i just tried to burn a pixy stik and it didnt really burn it sort of
    melted and then the flame went out


  6. you mix the pixy stick (or sugar) with potassium nitrate and sulfur. You use 10% sulfur, 63%potassium nitrate (saltpeter) and 27% sugar or pixy stick.

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