Thanks for the update. I don’t know of another true amateur effort for a
bipropellant liquid-fueled rocket intended for launch. By true amateur I
meant not connected to a university which has many more resources, funding,
and expert advice available.
Quite impressed you were able to get regenerative cooling to work, which
is quite complicated for an amateur experimenter.
BTW, I’m investigating low temperature liquid-fueled rockets engines.
Suppose you ran your engine fuel rich so the combustion temperature was
lower than the metal’s melting point. How long do you think your engine
could run?
Bob Clark
On Monday, March 12, 2018, Robert Watzlavick <rocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I ran a vertical static test of my flight vehicle this weekend using my
250 lbf LOX/kerosene engine.
Notes: http://www.watzlavick.com/robert/rocket/
Pictures: http://www.watzlavick.com/robert/rocket/rocket1/tests/index.html
I'll post videos later but it was a 12 second run. Everything generally
worked but I ran into some annoying test setup issues.
-Bob
