The month of June has been a very eventful one. Most significant is my career shift. I got a new job in Cape Canaveral working on rockets...imagine that! I packed up and moved down so now I am located in the rocket capital of the world! Sadly, this takes me away from the machine shop where I spent the past few months slaving over the tools building rockets. For the time being I will have to put my rocket engine building on hold until I can find a new home to get back to work. It does give me time to start developing a flight ready design with the knowledge I have gained.
The
final tests before I had to see my baby go. These were the best/loudest
tests yet so at least I left off with a wooooooosssshhhhhh and not a
bang!
Fortunately, my rocket has a good home where it will serve as a demo model for Advanced Engine Technologies back in Dayton. I did manage to get a regenerative chamber designed and hastily machined so the next big step in that build will be to get an injector plate drilled up. So if there is anyone in the state of Florida that has access to machine tools please let me know and we can make
some sparks fly! I have a youtube playlist with all of my engine tests that can hopefully help inspire other to keep up the good fight! Please continue to share and offer me some feedback so that the next one will be even better!
This is the 100 lbf regeneratively cooled chamber! Coming eventually! I'll have more pictures as soon as I get unpacked.
