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- From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
- Newsgroups: rec.pyrotechnics
- Subject: Re: Rocket Fuels
- Message-ID: <1382@taniwha.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Jan 93 07:16:18 GMT
- References: <EcPWrAiNBh107h@fulgor.UUCP>
- Organization: Taniwha Systems Design
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- In article <EcPWrAiNBh107h@fulgor.UUCP> janv%fulgor@frcs.alt.za writes:
-
- >Another question:
- >Has anybody experimented with the "real stuff": Ammonium perchlorate
- >& aluminum powder set in Thiokol rubber as a propellant ? That
- >was (is) a common ingredient for large solid-propellant rockets
- >in the 60's (and maybe even later).
-
- Yeah, we fly it all the time, it's available commercially here, at prices
- that are affordable (at least affordable for just about anything you
- can fit in your car). Check out rec.models.rockets where what you want
- is refered to as a 'composite' fuel. Since it's available 'off the shelf'
- most people don't roll their own, some do, the results aren't always pretty ...
-
- Paul
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