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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rockets
- Subject: Re: looking for old model
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 19:08:29 GMT
- References: <1992Oct15.181403.12910@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Nov5.155229.15628@nmsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov5.155229.15628@nmsu.edu>, pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes:
- > This brings up a question I've had for a while: assuming the C5 has
- > the same total impulse as the C6 (my catalog isn't in front of me),
- > how can it possibly have a high initial thrust with short thrust
- > duration? It has to have a longer duration, by definition.
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- When I measured them in the MIT test cell right after their introduction
- (by Centuri) they certainly did. The thrust tail is so low that the
- observer might consider it part of the delay time.
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