Worlds 1st Bi propellant alcohol and nitrous oxide rocket motor static and flight test April 15 1996

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These are the first test of the worlds simplest liquid bi propellant rocket. My first design for a really simple liquid propellant rocket in 1986. It used 98% nitric acid and furfuryl alcohol it was never made. In 1993 I saw Kory Kline static test his Nitrous Oxide and Rubber Hybrid motor at the RRS MTA. Thats when I decided to go for nitrous instead of Nitric acid as an oxidizer. The design uses concentric propellant tanks. The inner tank holds the alcohol the surrounding tank holds the nitrous oxide. The alcohol is loaded thru the alcohol injector hole via hypo a piston on top of the inner tank pressurizes the alcohol from nitrous pressure. The nitrous is loaded remotely and both tanks were only half filled on both static and flight test.
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It sure is fun to see these old videos from before my time. Looks like it's still the Mark Holthaus post-moustache era. The Half Cat Rocketry guys are doing something similar without the concentric tanks.

DerekHonkawa
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no need to extract minerals from seawater when you have a rocket that can extract them from the desert floor

timjones
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Why was this even posted? The tape fouled due to constant rewinding such that the liftoff is basically deleted! WHAT a letdown! Complete waste of time.

powderslinger