This is true. I remember talking with George Koopman back in ’89 and he
mentioned the “fuels” they used to demonstrate the safety of hybrids.
BTW, today is the anniversary of the AMROC SET-1 launch attempt, fire and
failure in 1989 (a week-ish after Koopman died in a car accident) that
demonstrated the real drawbacks of hybrids for space launch.
Search “AMROC V” on Youtube.
- Matthew
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roxanna Mason
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Subject: [AR] Re: Propulsive landing: Stuck!
A colleague of mine who worked for Amroc said their executive had a portable
test stand which had a salami as the fuel grain and GOx for the oxidizer.
He fired the motor in an office environment then gave slices of the still hot
salami to the observers to eat.
The point was that hybrids are safe and taste good too.
Ken
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 4:43 PM David McMillan
<skyefire@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:skyefire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Yep, BPS managed it: https://youtu.be/SH3lR2GLgT0
I got a giggle around the 5min mark when Joe started listing his new goals,
including a Starship/Superheavy model complete with bellyflop recovery (I
called it, back when he posted the Christmas Tree video! Hah!), and "the meat
rocket," which he was coy about, but made me think of that one MythBusters
episode where they tried making a hybrid rocket using a salami and NO2.