*****

    If you build amateur rocketry hardware you will almost
    certainly want to look at these pages !!!
    If you don't, but have any interest in real rockets at all then
    this will be of great interest.

    Looking at this site may destroy your life for a week.

            http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/pdf/

    *** WARNING ***

    Looking at the next level up

                    http://www.redstone.army.mil/history

    may destroy your life for many weeks.

****

This site approximates John Carmack's regular
updates. What they built, why they did it, what worked, what didn't,
what results they got. Given the state of much current amateur
rocketry development there should be much good material here of direct
applicability.

It proved to be a practical goldmine far beyond it's value re the
preservation of a 50+ year old rocket.

I've only looked at the Corporal material so far but the other rockets
appear to have equally valuable material.

There are over 600 pages on the Corporal alone. It is a 1961 report
which draws together all then available material into a retrospective
of the system. It gives eg detailed accounts of how Corporal's motor
and nozzles were built, what worked and what failed and what they
changed to make it reliable. Also what they wanted to do but didn't
get time for. With cross section diagrams of motor construction and
... .

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Here's the systems that are covered:

Army Ordnance Satellite Program
CHAPARRAL/FAAR
CORPORAL VOL I & II
Field Army Ballistic Missile Defense System Project
HONEST JOHN
Improved HONEST JOHN
JUPITER
LACROSSE
LOKI
MAULER
NIKE AJAX
REDEYE
REDSTONE
SERGEANT
SHILLELAGH
TOW


Enjoy !!!



            Russell McMahon







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