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Darn, I was really looking forward to explosive bolts!Is there a meeting tomorrow? Am I invited? If so, when and where? PM is you did not get my number yesterday.

Ok, if we go for separation of six booster pods, it must be done philosophically correct. So in thinking about a design, please remember the old aviation design adage; if it is wierd, its British; if it is ugly, its…   Read more»

Back in the peanut gallery, this peanut is cheering you on saying “I LIKE IT”. Of course I am also speaking from ignorance and lack of experience too. So the club engineers that make motors, do they make the grains…   Read more»

Well finding out that the “strap-ons” aren’t really strap-ons in the way we Americans use them changes things a lot. One of the true “COOOL” things about the Delta II and Trojanowski’s Delta III was the booster deployment. As I…   Read more»

Ok, if we go for separation of six booster pods, it must be done philosophically correct. So in thinking about a design, please remember the old aviation design adage; if it is wierd, its British; if it is ugly, its…   Read more»

I have a copy of the “International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems”, and I’ve scanned the pages that seem to be relevant to the project and uploaded JPGs to Picassa//picasaweb.google.com/104277995541934870423/ProtonInfo?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCIPTw8ig-Ia4bg&feat=directlinkYou should be able to zoom in & read the…   Read…[Read more]

I’d just like to say that Steve Mashburn (smashburn) took on a bare L1 (me) when he proposed the Delta II project. I had some skills, but had never been involved in anything like that level of size or complexity….   Read more»

Anybody desiring to go to Longmont for a meeting and who lives in Fort Collins or this vicinity is welcome to ride with me. I am starting in Wellington and headed south. I guess I have room for up to…   Read more»

I have a copy of the “International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems”, and I’ve scanned the pages that seem to be relevant to the project and uploaded JPGs to Picassa//picasaweb.google.com/104277995541934870423/ProtonInfo?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCIPTw8ig-Ia4bg&feat=directlinkYou should be able to zoom in & read the…   Read…[Read more]

“Put a blue hardhat on that man and keep him away from the tool chest.”But I would like to help out (live in Fort Collins) – and as you implied at the annual meeting – learn by watching the big…   Read more»

Hey guys! I need phone numbers for everyone if possible. I hope to meet with Scott on Sat about using his hanger in Longmont for the build. We’ll need to help him move some stuff abound and make room. Possibly…   Read more»

Here is some more info. that I have dug up. See if this helps any..In expanding my research in the quest for more details, I came across this site with a great photo of the rocket on its rail car….   Read more»

I’d just like to say that Steve Mashburn (smashburn) took on a bare L1 (me) when he proposed the Delta II project. I had some skills, but had never been involved in anything like that level of size or complexity….   Read more»

I found a bunch more information and photos on the Proton K, Proton M, UR-500, SL-9 thru SL-12 rockets, learned about the Baikonour Cosmodrome, some, really detailed photographs of the rail car and launcher, etc. and thought I was placing…   Read more»

smashburn – been at this only a couple of years, but did manage my L1 last summer. Have no practical skills, tools, spare parts, or ideas. Schooled as a chemical engineer,, that basically translates to, “Put a blue hardhat on…   Read more»

Those thing-a-ma-jigs on the side of the rocket that we are calling boosters are the main engines. The central tube is a fuel tank and has no engine. It uses the same dangerous (and I do mean dangerous rocket fuel…   Read more»

As our Chief Researcher you are the man for this task. Warren really believes we should drop the boosters in flight, as we did on the Delta, for the obvious Cool-Factor. However, I am not sure they do drop off…   Read more»

In doing further exploration, there is a website: http://www.cardmodels-r.narod.ru/html/images/Proton/proton-m.pdf, that shows instructions and patterns for building a model of a Proton M (and another site that does the Proton K). As our Chief Researcher you are the man for this…   Read more»

Whoa, just reading up on this project. Sounds amazing.Well, I have no $$ and even though I have my Level 2, I am definitely still a noob to HP rocketry, but I live in Longmont and can sand, glue, whatever…   Read more»

Whoa, just reading up on this project. Sounds amazing.Well, I have no $$ and even though I have my Level 2, I am definitely still a noob to HP rocketry, but I live in Longmont and can sand, glue, whatever…   Read more»