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Re: V4GR Roadster Considering V1 Rocket Power ?

To: V4GR@aol.com, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: V4GR Roadster Considering V1 Rocket Power ?
From: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:57:50 -0800
Rich, Where was A&P school? I went to Northrop for mine.
Skip H

At 05:48 PM 2/23/00 , you wrote:
>Bruce; When I was going to A&P school we had a pulse jet (how long ago was 
>that?) that we tried to get fired up. The doors are basically reed valves. 
>they are pushed open by ram air from the front and closed by combustion 
>pressure. It needs a rocket or something to get it going fast enough to start 
>working. We tried to start it using shop air, but not enough volume.  I was 
>thinking of using an air cycle machine for a blower, but no Ram Jets on the 
>roadster.  Rich Fox


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