Chris, Steve and I stopped by Electro-Tech Machining (ETM) in Long Beach on Monday, March 21st.
For anyone interested in ETM’s graphite and graphite machining services, a weblink to their site and their contact information is listed below. Our sincere thanks to Cathy Braunsdorf and Kevin Anderson at ETM!
2000 W. Gaylord Street, Long Beach, CA, 90813
(562) 491-3023, customer service office
(562) 437-5421, FAX
April Meeting location change
Hello Members and fellow Amateur Rocketeers,
We will be working with USCRPL to have a meeting on the USC campus at their lab. The actual location to have the meeting at will be Rapp Engineering Building (RRB) which is near the center of campus @USC.
I am working on getting us some assigned spaces, but at most there will be a small fee to park at the meters or in the structure on campus.
Address for meeting location; https://goo.gl/maps/3HWio (go here for a google map of the location)
USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory
854B Downey Way, RRB107
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1192
More info to come shortly.
I came across these RRS news letters from the 1940’s for sale and got them for about seventy dollars. I’ll post them in the library as soon as I can get them scanned.* They have some interesting stuff like some reporting about a nitric acid and wood hybrid rocket engine that was built and tested. Certainly an interesting choice for a propellant combination. I’d liked to share part of what they put on the back cover:
Purpose:
The REACTION RESEARCH SOCIETY is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to aid in the development of reaction propulsion, its applications, and to promote interest in this new science. This purpose is carried out by maintaining an active research program, encouraging other experimenters, and promoting interest in reaction propulsion by the publication of ASTRO-JET, Journal of the Reaction Research Society.
With that in mind I’d like to report that the next issue of the newsletter doesn’t have much more work left, now that things are settled over here and I’m moved in I’ll be able to put some time towards it, we just need for Chris to finish up his article and I’ll put it together.
*Probably at the university of Texas at Austin where they have book scanners available for use. I also found some Pacific Rocket Society newsletters in the library archives they have there. I was unable to scan them because the way the multiple issues where bound together. I’ll see what I can do about coming up with a solution to that and see if I can get them scanned at some point.
-Richard Garcia
