A google search on - phil bellmore rocket - turns this up:
http://osdir.com/ml/technology.erps/2001-09/msg00276.html
According to someone who spoke with his family, he was NOT mixing
peroxide and alcohol, he was testing a rocket motor with peroxide and
ethanol. He did not die immediately of his injuries, but went to the
hospital with good prognosis for recovery but his heart stopped during
surgery.
"Mixing peroxide and alcohol" was apparently a garbled initial report of
the incident from earlier in the same discussion thread.
On 7/1/2015 10:25 AM, Ben Brockert wrote:
Do you have a citation for him mixing alcohol and peroxide? I haven't
found one, and based on his experience it doesn't seem like something
he'd do. I found one 'apparently' stated by a third party, but that's
no sort of proof.
He had a distillation setup, and those are generally more dangerous
than the peroxide itself.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Mark C Spiegl <mark.spiegl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
I recall someone working with peroxide-alcohol died from an unignited mix
detonating. In Houston? I don't recall the guy's name, or anything more
about the circumstances.
Phil Bellmore
League City TX (Houston)
He was mixing alcohol and peroxide
--MCS
