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Rocketdyne Titles:
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Introduction to Rocket Missile Propulsion
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Propulsion Field Laboratory Mechanic's Handbook
Experimental Composite Propellants
(McCreary)
Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Edition
(Sutton, Biblarz)
Rocket Propulsion Elements, 2nd Edition
(Sutton)
Rocket Propulsion in Military Series:
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Navaho Missile Project
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Air Launch!
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Nuclear Weapons of the US
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Secret Wonder Weapons of the Third Reich
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Bachem Natter
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V-1
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V-2
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German Guided Missiles
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V-1 and it's Soviet Successors
Various Authors, all richly detailed with numerous photographs and diagrams
Aerocon Out of Print Series:
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Principles of Guided Missile Design
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Aircraft Missiles and Propulsion
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Ignition!
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Rocket Engines
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Coming Age of Rocket Power
(Goddard, Clark, Congreve, more!)
Fundamentals of Rocketry eBook
(Feucht)
Colburn Series:
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Ardent Youth
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TF-1 Manual
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How to Build Electric Initiators
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Advanced Hybrid Manual
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Staging and Separation Manual
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The Micrograin Rocket
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The Test Stand
(Colburn - Not Available at this time)
History of Shaped Charges
(Kennedy)
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Rocketdyne Resource Books
These two reprints were first published for Rocketdyne employees in
1958.
There is a wealth of information contained in these two volumes which
is pertinent, topical, and essential for today's experimentalist.
Both Solids and Liquids are covered in the books. Click on the links
for sample pages. Books are high quality reproductions and are professionally
bound.
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An Introduction to Rocket Missile Propulsion
125 pages, 8 Chapters, 5 Appendices, 70+ drawings and diagrams.
In 1958 the Space Age was just getting started and most work at Rocketdyne
concerning rocketry was top secret. The information contained in
this book was meant for the Rocketdyne manager or factory boss or technician
who was not a physist or chemist yet still needed to know how and why rocket
motors worked. While most of the motors Rocketdyne developed were
secret at the time the V-2 engine was well characterized and undersood,
it's inner workings made a wonderful, relatively easily understood subject.
Quite a bit of the information in this book was the result of a study
by JPL commisioned by the US government to translate the German A4/V-2
engine into English units of measure. The bulk of the examples and
diagrams concern the processes and hardware of this motor.
See Index Page One and
Page
Two here
See Page
26 and Page
27
See Page
70 and Page
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Propulsion Field Laboratory
Mechanic's Handbook
175 pages, 10 sections, glossary, thousands of images, tables galore,
the perfect companion for the amateur or experimentalist!
Everything from soup to Hydrazine, this wonderful book has it all.
The first time I opened and read it my heart started pounding due to the
wealth of information it contained - it is a really fabulous resource and
is current today as it was then since it deals with standards which have
not really changed much over the past 40 years.
Written by Rocketdyne for the mechs and techs who ran the Propulsion
Field Laboratory, the Mechanic's Handbook was prepared to provide a central
source of fundamental information compiled from numerous official Rocketdyne
sources. This was the book that ended up being the dog-eared, much
thumbed bible of the hard hatted lunch box carrying Joe who made the LOX
plant, Area III, Test Stands Delta, Bravo, and Coca, and the Hot Fuels
Compound tick.
Take a look at some of the contents of this terrific resource:
Map
and Section 1 Contents
Sections
2 and 3 Contents
Sections
4 and 5 Contents
Sections
6 and 7 Contents
Sections
8 and 9 Contents
Sections
9 and 10 Contents
Tubing
Page Example
Rigging
Page Example
Valve
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