This Sunday ERPS had a work party at CDI Technologies, our generous
sponsor and purveyor of all things wise and wonderful in the world of
non-destructive testing, and I'm trying to embarrass Steve but too
tired to come up with flowery praise for NDT.
Dan built a cavitating venturi for KISS, which we hope will damp the
thrust oscillation we observed during the KISS II and KISS III
flights. We'll test it RSN, though probably not in December. Dan and
Mark drilled and tapped holes in the launcher tabs and rocket fin can
extension, and the propulsion module (back half, in plain, non-Vulcan
English) can now be screwed down and tested while mounted vertically.
Previous test have had the prop module mounted vertically, with the
engine mounted horizontally and connected to the module with a flex SS
hose.
Dave M helped everyone as needed, and provided sanity checks. (We
cashed every one of them, but we're still short, and now he's
overdrawn.)
I block diagrammed the pressure tree, and wrote a new flight test
checklist, much more in keeping with President/pilot Masten's ideas of
what a checklist should look like: it fit on a single page. I'm sure
I can fix that. ;-) Also set out were duties, comm stations, key
personnel - we're up to eight key personnel now, though only six of
them are ERPS people, and a couple of those could double up if we were
short. The checklist is generic enough that I'll post an ASCII
version to the list when I've transcribed it into Excel.
-R
--
"Is this a bagel?"
"It's the Guardian of Forever!"
"Well yes. But is it a bagel?"
--Overheard at Loscon 29
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