Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!charette
From: charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Model Rocket Engines
Keywords: model rocket safety
Message-ID: <7993@edsews.EDS.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 89 17:20:27 GMT
References: <17612@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <374@avsd.UUCP> <101@stanton.TCC.COM>
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In article <101@stanton.TCC.COM>, donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan) writes:
> 
> In the amateur rocketeer genre, has anyone ever used the Zinc/Sulfur mix that
> was recommended in an Amateur Scientist column? This was supposed to be a

I must have missed this Amateur Scientist column, but I have a short story
printed in 1961 (Reader's Digest Treasury for Young Readers - I was pretty
young when I read it :') by David Woodbury (Since it mentions Mr. Woodbury
and the Woodbury children, it seems autobiographical) which mentions this
mixture, recommended by an explosives chemist at a university. (He fails to
mention the university or chemist's name, but it ends with saying that the
chemist was the head of a "Rocket Ground" up some canyon.)

The story mentions "several pounds of sulfur and zinc dust" and a "six foot
tall rocket". Any ideas if this story could be true??

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