mongol@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kevin A Geiselman) (07/18/90)
From: Kevin A Geiselman <mongol@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
The 5 May 1990 issue of 'The Economist' has an article on the space gun, that
wonderfully simple concept that the Iraqi's were trying to build a few months
back.
The practical idea of building a cannon which could achieve escape velocities
(7000 m/s) was developed by Dr. Gerald Bull, a canadian scientist assassinated
in March, likely as a result of his involvement with the Iraqi's project.
My questions to the net: does anyone have any information about Dr. Bull's
space gun first hand? That is; can anyone find any books, papers, or journal
articles authored by Dr. Bull about his gun? I had heard that he has written
a book on the topic but all I've been able to find are periodical articles that
deal with is death and mention the gun. I'm looking for technical stuff here.
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(412) 241-5447 US Mail : 301 Overdale Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15221-4435pspod@kira.lerc.nasa.gov (Steve Podleski) (07/24/90)
From: pspod@kira.lerc.nasa.gov (Steve Podleski) In article <1990Jul18.040721.13911@cbnews.att.com> mongol@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kevin A Geiselman) writes: > > >From: Kevin A Geiselman <mongol@unix.cis.pitt.edu> > >The 5 May 1990 issue of 'The Economist' has an article on the space gun, that >wonderfully simple concept that the Iraqi's were trying to build a few months >back. > >The practical idea of building a cannon which could achieve escape velocities >(7000 m/s) was developed by Dr. Gerald Bull, a canadian scientist assassinated >in March, likely as a result of his involvement with the Iraqi's project. > >My questions to the net: does anyone have any information about Dr. Bull's >space gun first hand? That is; can anyone find any books, papers, or journal >articles authored by Dr. Bull about his gun? I had heard that he has written >a book on the topic but all I've been able to find are periodical articles that >deal with is death and mention the gun. I'm looking for technical stuff here. The papers mentioned below deals with Bull's work in the late 60's and early 70's: G.V. Bull and C.H. Murphy Review of the Hiogh Altitude Research Program (HARP) Paper given in the conference "The Fluid Dynamics Aspects of Ballistics" AGARD Conference Proceedings No. 10, 5-8 Sept. 1966 NASA is considering the use of a gun of about 18" diameter to study hypersonic flight (15 km/sec). This gun would fire a projectile horizontally through a covered range 1000 to 2000 ft. in length. This range could have any test gas of interest e.g. air, CO2.