I remember when he was killed on a lonely 2 lane Mojave desert road between
Lancaster and Edwards AFB/Rocket Lab when he rolled his sports car at high
speed.
So, cars are more dangerous than rockets, including hybrids.
Ken
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 7:05 PM matt aresinstitute.org <
matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
*From:* arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On
Behalf Of *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>
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.