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"Ardent Youth" by William H. Colburn, Jr. the inventor of KNO3/Sugar propellant.

The complete history of the Rocket Missile Research Society from 1946 to 1965.

With diagrams, photographs, tables and charts.

Information on liquid and solid rocket tests, ram and pulse jets both static fired and flight tested.

The origin of the Sugar Baby! (potassium nitrate and sugar propellant)

Many ideas newly disclosed, including data from first amateur launches in Libya, North Africa!

A very unique book dedicated entirely to Amateur Rocketry.

The history of the RMRS covers 18 years of amateur rocketry activity in the third rocket group formed in California. Starting with Potassium Nitrate and Sugar, a discovery of this group, it progresses through many propellants including the first all-amateur propellant with a
specific impulse greater than 200 seconds.

Work with staging, atmosphere sampling, ram jets, pulse jets, and bi-liquid rockets are covered anecdotally and with a large sampling of tech notes and correspondence and photographs from the period.

It is generally a good read as a narrative and contains much hidden information in the tech notes for the real rocketry buff.

5 Nosecones up for this read. Don't wait for the movie!

$35 plus shipping and handling

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