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Re: V4GR Roadster Considering V1 Rocket Power ?

To: "Lawrence E. & Cathy R. Mayfield" <lemay@hiwaay.net>,
Subject: Re: V4GR Roadster Considering V1 Rocket Power ?
From: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:44:03 -0700
mayf,
We could outlaw diesel fuel being even close to the propellant ... question
I had was about ignition ... what would a solid impact do to the whole
thing?  Hate to have a re-run of the Toyota commercial shoot disaster on the
salt.  No tellilng when that hole will heal.
Wes
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> From: "Lawrence E. & Cathy R. Mayfield" <lemay@hiwaay.net>
> To: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>,land-speed list
<land-speed@autox.team.net> 
> Subject: Re: FW: V4GR  Roadster  Considering  V1  Rocket  Power  ?
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:27:41 
> 
>
>Heck, thats easy! Titan uses hypergolic propellants, just shut them off and
>they quit. Now stopping would be really tricky...turn the motor facing
>forward and light it off again until zero velocity is reached. Really
>simple (8^))! Thgis is the way we go to the planets and Beyond (spoken like
>Carl Sagan...). The tank for this wouldn't have to be to big either, but
>those full space suits for fuel transfer would be killers in the heat.
>Also, remember Little Rock....
>
>mayf
>At 12:01 AM 2/24/00 -0700, Wester S Potter wrote:
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>>From: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net> 
>>To: FastmetalBDF@aol.com 
>>Subject: Re: V4GR  Roadster  Considering  V1  Rocket  Power  ?
>>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:58:52 -0700 
>>
>>There's an inventory discrepancy on Titan Missle motors at Hill AFB twenty
>>five miles from here.  Could be some floating around loose that could be
>>acquired.  Perhaps you could contact Mayf and figure out how to shut one
of
>>those down after seven miles.........and stop.
>>Wes
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>>> From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com 
>>> To: land-speed@autox.team.net 
>>> Subject: Fwd: V4GR  Roadster  Considering  V1  Rocket  Power  ?
>>> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:32:06 EST 
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>>>From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
>>>Full-name: FastmetalBDF
>>>Message-ID: <92.1d53d4e.25e5b8dc@aol.com>
>>>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:27:40 EST
>>>Subject: V4GR  Roadster  Considering  V1  Rocket  Power  ?
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>>>       Hi  Rich,   You could be right ;  there might have been reed
valves
>>in 
>>>those
>>>nasty  V1  forerunners to the much larger  V2  rockets ,  but  I  recall 
>>>seeing
>>>cutaway drawings which showed a " door " of  vanes ,  looking very much
>>like
>>>venetian blinds ,  and opening and closing in the same manner ,  mounted
a 
>>>short
>>>distance in from the air intake ,  and it was stated that their purpose
was
>>to
>>>control the air flow by rapidly fluttering open and closed in time with
the
>>
>>>combustion
>>>sequence  .    Just my take on how the incoming air was handled  --------
 
>>>they
>>>seemed to make a lot of power with cheap fuel and very few parts  !
>>>      Hope you aren' t considering mounting one on your roadster  !    It
 
>>>looks great
>>>the way it is  --------- and where do you find spare parts for those 
>>>stovepipes  ???
>>>      Get hot on that  32  plym  motor  -----
>>>Have  fun ,   Bruce  .
>>>      B T W  ------  I' ll be right across the  Bay  from you next month
, 
>>
>>>and will
>>>probably visit  Al  Leist' s  shop again  (  Darrell and were there last
>>year 
>>> ) .
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>
>L.E. Mayfield
>124 Maximillion Drive
>Madison, Al. 35758-8171
>ph: 1-256-837-1051
> 
>http://home.hiwaay.net/~lemayf
>
>lemay@hiwaay.net 
>
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