Yeah Bruce basically it's in a continuous state of needing another
certification or permit or inspection - infinitum..........
That place has been a sore spot for not just me but others who have put 5-6
figures of our own money with basically zero 'dividends'
Sorry for the rant/vent. I got one hot test of my 2KLbF LOx/Alcohol LR-11
TCA and that was on a mobile test stand tied down to steel stakes
rammed into the ground,(see pic). I managed to get my GP45 LOx dewar up
with their w/o incident Ben but not something I'd want to do very often. .
Poor Ray Goodson died before seeing a single grain cast let alone a static
test.
I just digress.
Ken
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:39 PM Bruce Beck <bbeck7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ken: Do you know the present status of the Rocket Ranch?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:24 PM roxanna Mason <rocketmaster.ken@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yes indeed, I met Chuck Piper early 70's at the RRI 'Perkins' test
facility in Sacramento,he was the lead man of our group and fabricated most
of the hardware, I machined some nozzles in my high school machine
shop,(throat diameter 2.25"). The photo on the front cover of his book was
called a Tar Baby, an end burning 5" motor of 350LbF for 16sec. Also a
surplus HIVAR truncated for the correct burn time at 1.5 in/sec,Pc 2-3Ksi,
Dt = 0.315". Ray Goodson introduced HTPB to our group about 1978 which led
to the very successful 3,4&5" nozzles motors. We flew both systems until
the early 80's when we abandoned Perkins and purchased the 320 acre Adobe
Rocket Ranch 50 miles east of San Jose. We never flew again.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:39 PM 1bcjolly <1bcjolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://www.rocketmotorparts.com/Asphalt_Based_Solid_Rocket_Propellants_by_Chuck_Piper/p1577809_17391641.aspx
Interesting read.
Sent from my Sprint Tablet.
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