Minutes of ERPS General Meeting #262
19 June 2003
The President called the meeting to order at 8:33 PM. Members present were
Rick Eversole, Sean Lynch, David Masten, Pierce Nichols, Julie Porter, Dan
Solvin, Adrian Tymes, David Weinshenker and Chris Winter.
Reports and discussion on agenda items were as follows:
DOCUMENTATION
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Chris Winter
Chris called for a document review, the purpose being to determine what
documentation of engines and other equipment is available and to obtain
copies for the archives. Dan agreed to provide copies of his engine
diagrams, Pierce of his sparger, and Dave M of whatever he has for POGO.
INFOTECH
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Sean Lynch
Nothing to report
LIAISONS
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Michael Wallis
Nothing to report
LOGISTICS
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Sean Lynch
Nothing to report
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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Michael Wallis
Adrian reported that, like the NSS (as previously mentioned), the
Planetary Society has expressed interest in sponsoring our F.A.S.T. concept
as a legislative proposal to Congress. When possible, the Board will meet
to discuss this.
TREASURER
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Rick Eversole
The treasurer reported that we have as much money as we had at last
meeting.
CHIEF SCIENTIST
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Kevin Bollinger
Nothing to report
FLIGHT CONTROLS
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Dave Masten
Work on the interface board for Gizmocopter is still under way, and still
impeded by computer failures and by the learning curve on layout software.
Julie Porter may be able to help with the latter problem.
PROPELLANTS/SPARGER/FF
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Pierce Nichols
Pierce reported that last week's run of his sparger at the Ranch raised
the 50% peroxide feedstock's concentration to 58%. One lesson learned on
this shakedown run was to start with a smaller volume of feedstock. This
will permit pushing the nominal airflow through the sparger without
excessive foaming.
He also reported that the water de-ionizer system was installed and
working. There is a slight leak, but this can probably be fixed by further
tightening the fixture on the top of the resin tank.
The plan for this weekend is to work on Dave W's "teacart FF apparatus" at
CDI on Saturday, and to make a Ranch trip on Sunday to do another sparger
run.
REGULATORY
AFFAIRS
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Dave Weinshenker
Dave W reported that Senator Enzi's bill, S 724, has just been marked up
by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and still has weight limits. There was
some discussion of what might be done to improve this wording.
Dave W mentioned that LUNAR's pyro op is getting a federal permit, and
suggested that we might be well advised to look into this possibility.
SAFETY
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Dave Masten
Safety is AOK.
TESTING
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Dave Masten
As noted before, peroxide is the pacing item for testing.
**** PROJECTS
Composites
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Kevin Bollinger
Nothing to report
Gizmocopter
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Dave Masten
See Flight Controls, above.
KISS
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Dan Solvin
Nothing to report
POGO
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Dave Masten
Rick announced that the POGO engines are due in his office by Monday at
the latest. A POGO meeting will be scheduled when we have them in hand.
Watch the list.
SMARTFLIGHT
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Dave Weinshenker
Dave W reported that flights are scheduled on upcoming weekends, and that
Aerotech continues to make progress in getting its operation going after
the fire.
Spike
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Sean Lynch
Nothing to report
NEW BUSINESS
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Rick announced that Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) might lend us
one of their guidance systems in the fall. PSAS has a Web site with
extensive open documentation of rocket systems. Rick has taken the lead in
communicating with them.
Pierce reported that he is still talking to Jon Goff about the details of
testing Jon's pintle engine at the Ranch. The gist of it is that we will
help Jon do the testing, but will not do the testing for him.
Pierce also announced that he will be away for the month of August.
This meeting was held at the Baker's Square in Redwood City. It was not
fully satisfactory. There was some discussion of a new meeting location;
possibilities include some Hometown Buffet locations in San Jose. Research
will continue, with results to be reported and a location chosen via the
list.
Meeting #262 adjourned at 9:10 PM. The next meeting will take place 03 July
2003 at a location TBA.
Respectfully submitted,
Chris Winter
Secretary, ERPS
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