[AR] Re: Black Arrow (was Re: Hypothetical Lox cooling)
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:23:23 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020, I wrote:
The only thing I could find is this: http://www.spaceuk.org/htp/htp.htm...
...[Andrews and Robinson] are "primary sources", people who were there
and in a position to know the details. That doesn't make them
infallible, but they're inherently more reliable sources -- especially
on technical details -- than second- or third-hand accounts from
non-participants.
Note that
http://www.spaceuk.org/htp/htp.htm claims the Black Knight
engines' single gimbal axis was radial (swinging in and out), which is
wrong -- they gimbaled tangentially, which is why they could do roll
control as well as pitch and yaw. In its picture of the 301, you can see
the inboard gimbal assemblies if you look closely.
Henry
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