Your HOOOCCH report is still pretty funny. "300 kilograms of
FLOX/Acetylozone was heated from its normal storage temperature of 8
degrees kelvin to a high point of about 9.3 degrees kelvin and subjected
to a 0.1g shock. [mushroom cloud illo] We successfully determined an
upper bound on shock sensitivity of bulk FLOX/Acetylozone, an important
step towards large scale applications of HOOOCCH." Oh yeah.
You are, however, being just a *leetle* bit mean here. I'm going to
continue for now to give benefit of the doubt to the various people who
say they have good reason to believe that nitrous/acetylene premix can
be made stable enough for use as a practical mixed monopropellant. The
ones I know are very smart people. (Optimists, yeah - but who else will
ever get into this business?)
Benefit of the doubt, yes. Bet heavily on the mix, no. Those good
reasons, alas, remain either confidential or classified. And yeah, even
with a chance to look those over I doubt I'd want to go anywhere near a
load of the mix before a few years worth of repeatedly demonstrated
stability.
I'm just glad they found out they had problems before some brave soul
strapped himself into an F-15 with a tube full of this slung underneath.
Henry
On 11/30/2015 1:51 PM, George Herbert wrote:
The DARPA ALASA launcher appears to have been cancelled (rolled back to tech
development) because Boeing used a less stable variation on my
Poly-Acetyl-Ozone propellant technology of a decade ago and, well, ...
As Chris Carson commented a bit ago on Facebook, "Where's my Earth-Shattering Kaboom?.."
"Oh, there it is."
http://spacenews.com/darpa-airborne-launcher-effort-falters/
https://web.archive.org/web/20121109235533/http://www.retro.com/hooocch/acezone.html
George William Herbert
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