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On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
Texas, 1997
Photographed analog with a Canon AE-1 Program on Kodak Gold film and digitized on Kodak Photo CD.
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: NASA
Currently serviced by SpaceX, this pad has been around for quite a number of years, and era of NASA space flight. I'm excited to see work being done to this pad to prepare it for the next generation of aerospace endeavor: the journey to Mars
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
News stand poster (1952), Cover by Chesley Bonestell. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
Collier's Magazine- October 18, 1952 PDF: www.rmastri.it/u.php?g AND www.unz.org/Pub/Colliers-1952oct18-00052
The Great 1952 Space Program That Almost Was, by Ron Miller (2013): io9.com/the-great-1952-space-program-453511252
Wernher von Braun, " Lunar Lander ", October 11, 1952 PHOTO / INFO: www.flickr.com/photos/mrdanbeaumont/15117470963/in/photos...
Collier’s 1952-54 Man Will Conquer Space Soon! (1952-54)
DOUGLAS YAZELL, EDITOR: www.aiaahouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Horizons_2...
The Von Braun Master Plan: National Dream or National Nightmare?: www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zzf.html
Chesley Bonestell. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
Collier's Weekly, October 18, 1952 Issue PDF : unzmag.org/Pub/Colliers-1952oct18
Wernher von Braun, " Lunar Lander ", October 11, 1952 PHOTO / INFO: www.flickr.com/photos/mrdanbeaumont/15117470963/in/photos...
Collier’s 1952-54 Man Will Conquer Space Soon! (1952-54)
DOUGLAS YAZELL, EDITOR: www.aiaahouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Horizons_2...
The Von Braun Master Plan: National Dream or National Nightmare?
The Mars Project by Wernher Von Braun and Willy Ley. Buy now at Amazon and own a piece of rocket science history.
by Jeffrey F. Bell
Manoa - Nov 03, 2003: www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zzf.html
Von Braun, NASA documents and biography: history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/
Wernher von Braun: "Missile to Moon", documentary. PBS (2012) VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ch0OgkkJKI
Wernher von Braun rocket scientist VIDEO COLLECTION: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-HsE-FedVRg3kVyyhy5ohjoNV...
Chesley Bonestell. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
From False Step: falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/sidebar-von-brauns-mo...
Von Braun’s Moonship
Collier's Weekly, October 18, 1952 Issue PDF: www.rmastri.it/u.php?g
AND PDF: Collier's Weekly, October 18, 1952 Issue PDF : unzmag.org/Pub/Colliers-1952oct18
Wernher von Braun, " Lunar Lander ", October 11, 1952 PHOTO / INFO: www.flickr.com/photos/mrdanbeaumont/15117470963/in/photos...
Collier’s 1952-54 Man Will Conquer Space Soon! (1952-54)
DOUGLAS YAZELL, EDITOR: www.aiaahouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Horizons_2...
The Von Braun Master Plan: National Dream or National Nightmare? : www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zzf.html
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
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On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
Cover by Chesley Bonestell. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
Collier's Magazine- October 18, 1952: PDF: www.rmastri.it/u.php?g AND www.unz.org/Pub/Colliers-1952oct18-00052
The Great 1952 Space Program That Almost Was, by Ron Miller (2013): io9.com/the-great-1952-space-program-453511252
Wernher von Braun, " Lunar Lander ", October 11, 1952 PHOTO / INFO: www.flickr.com/photos/mrdanbeaumont/15117470963/in/photos...
Collier’s 1952-54 Man Will Conquer Space Soon! (1952-54)
DOUGLAS YAZELL, EDITOR: www.aiaahouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Horizons_2...
The Von Braun Master Plan: National Dream or National Nightmare?: www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zzf.html
Not sure I can remember each of the Rockets in the picture. If you know pse comment and I'll update the description
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While in Florida, Short met Major Matthew Michael Gordon, Jr., a decorated United States Army Air Force officer then at the 2nd Air Commando Group. He was training for deployment to the China Burma India Theater of Operations. She told friends that he had written to propose marriage while he was recovering from injuries from a plane crash in India. She accepted his offer, but Gordon died in a second crash on August 10, 1945, less than a week before Japan's surrender ended World War II.
Short returned to Los Angeles in July 1946 to visit Army Air Force Lieutenant Joseph Gordon Fickling, whom she knew from Florida. Fickling was stationed at the Naval Reserve Air Base, Long Beach. Short spent the last six months of her life in southern California, mostly in the Los Angeles area.
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the Black Dahlia (Beth Short) site:
There is NEW information in the Deanna Cremin murder investigation...
www.bethshort.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=64790&sid=50...
Pamela, the admin there made it a sticky for a few years. It had Deanna's Billboard and a brief overview that I wrote. Tha's what I made the billboard for, for all the News Agencies Katherine asked to send eMails to. I did and more places as well.
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
Watching the first Saturn I launch from Blockhouse 34 at Huntsville, Alabama, October 1961. Left to right: George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight; Wernher von Braun and Eberhard F. M. Rees, Deputy Director , Marshall Space Flight Center. (Photo by Mitchell R. Sharpe.)
Just the perfect venue, with thematic drive-up appeal… The kids loved it.
Silicon Valley boasts the largest rocketry club in the world. Yet, there is no "legal" launch site anywhere in the Bay Area, a situation that has become endemic across America.
Kids (of all ages) have launched over 500 million Estes rockets. It's not for safety that rocketry has been pushed out of suburban areas; it's fear of the unknown. Local communities would rather forbid launches in their backyard than think about the systemic effect once all communities do so. This recently happened here, when Livermore shut down the last Silicon Valley site for launches.
LUNAR (the Livermore Unit of the National Association of Rocketry) has been working diligently with NASA Ames for months to get the permissions and policies in place to allow periodic group launches at NASA. Today was a test launch to see that everything works out.
Hangar One behind us is the second largest indoor space in America. See below for a peek inside…
Students from across the country spent a week learning about rocket science, and the technology, engineering and math that feeds the smoke and fire of a launch at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Space Camp in Huntsville, Al., sponsored by Boeing. Boeing Space Launch System rocket experts and interns were on hand to help.
Boeing provides this photo for the public to share. Media interested in high-resolution images for publication should email boeingmedia@boeing.com or visit boeing.mediaroom.com. Users may not manipulate or use this photo in commercial materials, advertisements, emails, products, or promotions without licensed permission from Boeing. If you are interested in using Boeing imagery for commercial purposes, email imagelicensing@boeing.com or visit www.boeingimages.com.
The jacket design is by Ray Boultinghouse.
Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III, two of the world’s leading experts on rocketry and astronautics, collaborated on this comprehensive history of man’s conquest of space. The book was published in 1966, two years before Apollo 8, which was the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit. The book is lavishly illustrated and begins with ancient Babylonian and Greek concepts of the universe, covers the development of rockets by Chinese, Arabic, and medieval European experimenters, and explains the twentieth century plans for manned missions to the Moon, Mars, and Venus.
The book describes the work of such great rocket pioneers as America’s Goddard, Germany’s Oberth, Russia’s Tsiolkovsky, Great Britain’s Isaac Lubbock, and France’s Esnault-Pelterie. It also details the experiments of Von Braun and Walter R. Dornberger in Germany before World War II, and gives a full account of their development team on the V-2 rocket at the Peeneműnde Center. The dramatic story of the German scientists’ surrender to American forces in 1945, as well as their eventual accomplishments at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal and subsequently NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is also told at first hand.
Wernher von Braun became the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center on July 1, 1960 and held that post until January 27, 1970. Under his supervision the center worked on the Saturn space launch vehicles. The Saturn family of American rocket boosters was developed by mostly German rocket scientists to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. Originally proposed as a military satellite launcher, they were adopted as the launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program.
Frederick I. Ordway III was in charge of space systems information at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center from 1960 to 1963, and before that performed a similar function for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville.
The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: Eric Bordelon
ITV came to RAF Scampton over several days to film the new tv program "Its Not Rocket Science". British 200m runner Adam Gemili raced a Red Arrows Hawk aircraft over a 100m distance. Presenters Romesh and Rachel Riley watched from the side of the runway.
Image created by SAC Gina Edgcumbe
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: Eric Bordelon
Students from across the country spent a week learning about rocket science, and the technology, engineering and math that feeds the smoke and fire of a launch at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Space Camp in Huntsville, Al., sponsored by Boeing. Boeing Space Launch System rocket experts and interns were on hand to help.
Boeing provides this photo for the public to share. Media interested in high-resolution images for publication should email boeingmedia@boeing.com or visit boeing.mediaroom.com. Users may not manipulate or use this photo in commercial materials, advertisements, emails, products, or promotions without licensed permission from Boeing. If you are interested in using Boeing imagery for commercial purposes, email imagelicensing@boeing.com or visit www.boeingimages.com.
We acquired a pulsejet engine and SA007 decided it would be fun to try it out.
The engine is fastened to a piece of train rails to weigh it down and prevent actual lift-off. The fuel line is crafted out of electrical wire (with the wires being removed from the jacket). The air intake line is made from CAT 5E network cable (also with inner wiring removed from the outer jacket). The prototype fuel tank was made from a piece of bicycle inner-tube, later we just used a cut plastic bottle. The high-voltage current which ignites the spark-plug is provided by a neon sign transformer.
Actual phrases overheard during construction and test-firing:
* "This (electrical) wire is rated for 300 volts, so it'll probably be okay to use as a gasoline fuel line"
* "This piece of train rails will weigh it down sufficiently to prevent lift-off....probably"
* "With us being boardmembers, shouldn't we put a stop to this?"
* "That length of CAT5E network cable is perfect as an air intake hose"
* "Wait, doesn't this count as a weapon?" (weapons are prohibited from entering the hackerspace)
* "We *do* have the paramedics on speed-dial, right?"
* "I am picturing a couple of nerds desperately running after an escaped pulse-jet-driven drinks cart"
* "Anyway, even *if* it escapes, it can't go farther than the compound gates" (300 metres away)
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/D Scuka
The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: Eric Bordelon
We acquired a pulsejet engine and SA007 decided it would be fun to try it out.
The engine is fastened to a piece of train rails to weigh it down and prevent actual lift-off. The fuel line is crafted out of electrical wire (with the wires being removed from the jacket). The air intake line is made from CAT 5E network cable (also with inner wiring removed from the outer jacket). The prototype fuel tank was made from a piece of bicycle inner-tube, later we just used a cut plastic bottle. The high-voltage current which ignites the spark-plug is provided by a neon sign transformer.
Actual phrases overheard during construction and test-firing:
* "This (electrical) wire is rated for 300 volts, so it'll probably be okay to use as a gasoline fuel line"
* "This piece of train rails will weigh it down sufficiently to prevent lift-off....probably"
* "With us being boardmembers, shouldn't we put a stop to this?"
* "That length of CAT5E network cable is perfect as an air intake hose"
* "Wait, doesn't this count as a weapon?" (weapons are prohibited from entering the hackerspace)
* "We *do* have the paramedics on speed-dial, right?"
* "I am picturing a couple of nerds desperately running after an escaped pulse-jet-driven drinks cart"
* "Anyway, even *if* it escapes, it can't go farther than the compound gates" (300 metres away)
Students from across the country spent a week learning about rocket science, and the technology, engineering and math that feeds the smoke and fire of a launch at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Space Camp in Huntsville, Al., sponsored by Boeing. Boeing Space Launch System rocket experts and interns were on hand to help.
Front row, left to right:
Jade Bates, Bloomington, IL; Jack Ham, Savannah, GA; Daniel Patrick, Douglasville, GA; Haylee Jones, Springfield, VA; Mitchell White, Millis, MA; Kayla Gelman, Melbourne, FL; Clark Burnham, Oakland, CA; Adam Rose, Milledgeville, GA
Back row, left to right:
Wyatt Strassman, Kennesaw, GA; Katharine White, Millis, MA; Paul DeWitt, Federal Way, WA; Isaac Winsor, Round Hill, VA; Wyatt Spahn, Seguin, TX; Bennett Magee, Summit, MS; Trent Clayton, Columbus, OH
Boeing provides this photo for the public to share. Media interested in high-resolution images for publication should email boeingmedia@boeing.com or visit boeing.mediaroom.com. Users may not manipulate or use this photo in commercial materials, advertisements, emails, products, or promotions without licensed permission from Boeing. If you are interested in using Boeing imagery for commercial purposes, email imagelicensing@boeing.com or visit www.boeingimages.com.
We acquired a pulsejet engine and SA007 decided it would be fun to try it out.
The engine is fastened to a piece of train rails to weigh it down and prevent actual lift-off. The fuel line is crafted out of electrical wire (with the wires being removed from the jacket). The air intake line is made from CAT 5E network cable (also with inner wiring removed from the outer jacket). The prototype fuel tank was made from a piece of bicycle inner-tube, later we just used a cut plastic bottle. The high-voltage current which ignites the spark-plug is provided by a neon sign transformer.
Actual phrases overheard during construction and test-firing:
* "This (electrical) wire is rated for 300 volts, so it'll probably be okay to use as a gasoline fuel line"
* "This piece of train rails will weigh it down sufficiently to prevent lift-off....probably"
* "With us being boardmembers, shouldn't we put a stop to this?"
* "That length of CAT5E network cable is perfect as an air intake hose"
* "Wait, doesn't this count as a weapon?" (weapons are prohibited from entering the hackerspace)
* "We *do* have the paramedics on speed-dial, right?"
* "I am picturing a couple of nerds desperately running after an escaped pulse-jet-driven drinks cart"
* "Anyway, even *if* it escapes, it can't go farther than the compound gates" (300 metres away)
We acquired a pulsejet engine and SA007 decided it would be fun to try it out.
The engine is fastened to a piece of train rails to weigh it down and prevent actual lift-off. The fuel line is crafted out of electrical wire (with the wires being removed from the jacket). The air intake line is made from CAT 5E network cable (also with inner wiring removed from the outer jacket). The prototype fuel tank was made from a piece of bicycle inner-tube, later we just used a cut plastic bottle. The high-voltage current which ignites the spark-plug is provided by a neon sign transformer.
Actual phrases overheard during construction and test-firing:
* "This (electrical) wire is rated for 300 volts, so it'll probably be okay to use as a gasoline fuel line"
* "This piece of train rails will weigh it down sufficiently to prevent lift-off....probably"
* "With us being boardmembers, shouldn't we put a stop to this?"
* "That length of CAT5E network cable is perfect as an air intake hose"
* "Wait, doesn't this count as a weapon?" (weapons are prohibited from entering the hackerspace)
* "We *do* have the paramedics on speed-dial, right?"
* "I am picturing a couple of nerds desperately running after an escaped pulse-jet-driven drinks cart"
* "Anyway, even *if* it escapes, it can't go farther than the compound gates" (300 metres away)
When Cody Jones graduated with a degree in communication arts from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in 2011, he had no idea what he was supposed to do next.
“I graduated with my degree in a place named the Rocket City, but I never imagined myself as someone who would work with rockets,” Jones said.
However, a professor saw Cody’s potential and suggested he apply for an internship working as a payload communicator in the International Space Station Payload Operations and Integration Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Although the position was intended for someone with a technical background, Jones’ communication skills, persistence, and willingness to learn about the aerospace industry got him the job and helped make him successful in that initial role. It led him to his current one as project manager for the ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion stage) for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Program, which is managed by Marshall, and will help NASA land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon under Artemis.
The ICPS, produced by Boeing and United Launch Alliance, is the in-space propulsion stage of the SLS rocket for the first three Artemis missions. Its single RL10 engine, made by lead SLS engines contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne, produces more than 24,750 pounds of thrust to help send Orion and its crew on their journey to the Moon. During the successful Artemis I test flight in 2022, the ICPS propelled NASA's Orion spacecraft toward the Moon after the rocket's core stage and solid rocket boosters were spent. The stage will help play a critical role during Artemis III, which will land astronauts on the surface of the Moon, by giving Orion the big propulsive boost needed to break free from Earth orbit and venture toward the Moon.
Image credit: United Launch Alliance
#NASA #NASAMarshall #sls #spacelaunchsystem #nasasls #exploration #rocket #artemis #ArtemisIII #ICPS #astronauts #RocketScience #ICPS #Moon
We acquired a pulsejet engine and SA007 decided it would be fun to try it out.
The engine is fastened to a piece of train rails to weigh it down and prevent actual lift-off. The fuel line is crafted out of electrical wire (with the wires being removed from the jacket). The air intake line is made from CAT 5E network cable (also with inner wiring removed from the outer jacket). The prototype fuel tank was made from a piece of bicycle inner-tube, later we just used a cut plastic bottle. The high-voltage current which ignites the spark-plug is provided by a neon sign transformer.
Actual phrases overheard during construction and test-firing:
* "This (electrical) wire is rated for 300 volts, so it'll probably be okay to use as a gasoline fuel line"
* "This piece of train rails will weigh it down sufficiently to prevent lift-off....probably"
* "With us being boardmembers, shouldn't we put a stop to this?"
* "That length of CAT5E network cable is perfect as an air intake hose"
* "Wait, doesn't this count as a weapon?" (weapons are prohibited from entering the hackerspace)
* "We *do* have the paramedics on speed-dial, right?"
* "I am picturing a couple of nerds desperately running after an escaped pulse-jet-driven drinks cart"
* "Anyway, even *if* it escapes, it can't go farther than the compound gates" (300 metres away)
We acquired a pulsejet engine and SA007 decided it would be fun to try it out.
The engine is fastened to a piece of train rails to weigh it down and prevent actual lift-off. The fuel line is crafted out of electrical wire (with the wires being removed from the jacket). The air intake line is made from CAT 5E network cable (also with inner wiring removed from the outer jacket). The prototype fuel tank was made from a piece of bicycle inner-tube, later we just used a cut plastic bottle. The high-voltage current which ignites the spark-plug is provided by a neon sign transformer.
Actual phrases overheard during construction and test-firing:
* "This (electrical) wire is rated for 300 volts, so it'll probably be okay to use as a gasoline fuel line"
* "This piece of train rails will weigh it down sufficiently to prevent lift-off....probably"
* "With us being boardmembers, shouldn't we put a stop to this?"
* "That length of CAT5E network cable is perfect as an air intake hose"
* "Wait, doesn't this count as a weapon?" (weapons are prohibited from entering the hackerspace)
* "We *do* have the paramedics on speed-dial, right?"
* "I am picturing a couple of nerds desperately running after an escaped pulse-jet-driven drinks cart"
* "Anyway, even *if* it escapes, it can't go farther than the compound gates" (300 metres away)