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Old 13-11-2014, 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by gary View Post
Brian J. Cantwell, a professor in Stanford University's department of
aeronautics and astronautics, has an article at the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum Magazine web site
about he and his colleagues efforts to design safer rocket engines using
a liquid/solid hybrid approach where they are using paraffin wax as
the solid component.



Full article here :-

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/s...ets-more-oomph

Gary Kopff
IEEE Member 37 years
Nice article Gary, thanks. Looks impressive solution.
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