Christopher Biggs on Nostr: When your experimental rocket fuel is perhaps a little /more/ energetic than you’d ...
When your experimental rocket fuel is perhaps a little /more/ energetic than you’d like:
“ I never saw such a mess. The walls of the test cell—two feet of concrete—went out, and the roof came in. The motor itself—a heavy, workhorse job of solid copper—went about 600 feet down range. And a six-foot square of armor plate sailed into the woods, cutting off a few trees at the root, smashing a granite boulder, bouncing into the air and slicing off a few treetops, and finally coming to rest some 1400 feet from where it started. The woods looked as though a stampeding herd of wild elephants had been through”
Excerpt from
_Ignition! - an unofficial history of liquid rocket propellants_
John D. Clark (1972)
“ I never saw such a mess. The walls of the test cell—two feet of concrete—went out, and the roof came in. The motor itself—a heavy, workhorse job of solid copper—went about 600 feet down range. And a six-foot square of armor plate sailed into the woods, cutting off a few trees at the root, smashing a granite boulder, bouncing into the air and slicing off a few treetops, and finally coming to rest some 1400 feet from where it started. The woods looked as though a stampeding herd of wild elephants had been through”
Excerpt from
_Ignition! - an unofficial history of liquid rocket propellants_
John D. Clark (1972)