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  • ALRIGHT.

  • LET'S START ATTACHING SOME ROCKETS.

  • FOR OUR FIRST TEST, WE'RE GOING TO ATTACH 10 ROCKETS --

  • FIVE ON EACH SIDE.

  • THAT SHOULD GIVE US EQUAL BALANCE PROPULSION.

  • THE CRITICAL FACTOR HERE IS SIMULTANEOUS IGNITION

  • OF ALL THE ROCKET MOTORS.

  • NOW WE WIRE!

  • ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS CRITICAL

  • AS WE WIRE EVERY CONNECTION PRECISELY,

  • AND HOPE THAT EACH OF THESE IGNITERS

  • GOES OFF AT THE SAME TIME.

  • I AM CURIOUS TO SEE IF ALL 10 ROCKETS FIRE SIMULTANEOUSLY.

  • AND IF THEY DO, WILL IT TRACK STRAIGHT?

  • THAT'S THE BEHAVIOR I'M GONNA BE LOOKING AT FOR THIS TEST.

  • THE TEST COURSE FOR OUR JUNIOR 'JANDRUM TRIAL RUN --

  • JUST LIKE THE BEACHES AT NORMANDY,

  • WE HAVE OUR STRIP OF SAND,

  • OBSTACLES OF BARBED WIRE, STEEL SPIKES CALLED

  • CZECH HEDGEHOGS, AND FINALLY THE IMPREGNABLE SEAWALL --

  • IN THIS CASE, MADE OUT OF CARDBOARD BOXES --

  • AND OF COURSE, TINY HEROIC SOLDIERS.

  • THAT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL.

  • IT DOES.

  • ALL THESE LEADS ARE HOOKED UP TO OUR BATTERY

  • THAT WILL FIRE UP OUR ROCKET MOTORS

  • AND SEND OUR MINI-PANJANDRUM ON ITS WAY --

  • WE HOPE.

  • WE ARE HOT. YOU READY TO GO?

  • WE'RE READY TO GO. ALRIGHT.

  • HERE'S HOPING FOR 10 ROCKETS ALL AT ONCE.

  • IN...

  • Both: ...THREE, TWO, ONE!

  • ♪♪

  • -WHOA! -WOW.

  • WOW! [ COUGHING ]

  • THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!

  • OH, IT SMELLS LIKE THE FOURTH OF JULY.

  • IT DOES, ALL THAT BLACK POWDER.

  • OH!

  • LOOK, IT'S BURNED A TRACK. YEP.

  • IT'S ALL STICKY. YEAH.

  • WE LITERALLY WERE BURNING RUBBER.

  • YEAH.

  • THAT TEST YIELDED SOME GENUINE INFORMATION.

  • LOOKING AT THE HIGH-SPEED CAMERA FOOTAGE,

  • WE CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT WE DIDN'T QUITE ACHIEVE

  • OUR GOAL OF SIMULTANEOUS IGNITION.

  • THAT ROCKET RIGHT THERE LAGGED BEHIND

  • BY A FRACTION OF A SECOND,

  • CAUSING OUR JUNIOR 'JANDRUM TO VEER TO THE RIGHT.

  • ALSO, IT SEEMS THAT THE NEARLY 75 POUNDS

  • OF COMBINED THRUST PRODUCED BY OUR 10 ROCKET MOTORS

  • WAS A BIT TOO MUCH POWER FOR OUR 7-POUND PANJANDRUM.

  • I'M KIND OF INCLINED TO TRY IT AT, LIKE, 60% --

  • LIKE THREE ROCKETS ON EACH SIDE.

  • WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH

  • AND TRY TO DIAL IN THIS THRUST-TO-WEIGHT RATIO.

  • Both: THREE, TWO, ONE!

  • Savage: HERE IT -- WHOA, WHOA!

  • AND IT'S GONNA PIROUETTE.

  • LET'S SEE IF IT STICKS THE LANDING.

  • OH, THE RUSSIAN JUDGE

  • IS GONNA GIVE IT A BIG SCORE FOR THAT.

  • WELL DONE, EVERYBODY.

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