rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Bob Beville) (06/13/89)
From: Bob Beville <rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET> Hi, I loaned this years ago and they/it has gotten away: A stiff-cover paperback by an Army Air Corps officer that *properly* instructed amateur rocket enthusiasts in the construction and launching of small solid fuel rockets... It contained: A treatment about the thrill of the hobby... A sermon about accidents and safety... The characteristics and requirements of a solid fuel propellant... some drugstore/hardware recipe/ formulae for (several) solid fuels... Construction drawings & details for cardboard tube fuseallages, nose cones and fins how to build a engine test stand-bunker... how to build a launch bunker... how to build the launch igniter... how to supervise a launch... how to determine altitude achieved by rocket using protractors and trig tables... trig tables... It was written so us kids of the 'zip-gun' generation would stop blnding ourselves or blowing our hands off. (do you know how far a cherry bomb in a 1-1/2 inch pipe will throw a D-cell battery? have you ever taken strike-anywhere matches....?) I date it pre- '47 because the author was A-A-Corps... Words like: amateur, rocket, handbook were in the title. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR AN email REPLY... best regards, rbeville@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM Bob Beville, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR 97077 Quixote: Hey, Sancho amigo. Whadda say we go tip over some outhouses. Ayyy?