Re: Major Spiral "50/50" find

In article <64yx3r0k.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx>, gcash <gcash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Various bits and pieces of technology from the canceled jet engine for
>> Suntan showed up a bit later in the RL10 rocket engine.
>
>Really?? Do you have a cite? Not that I don't believe you, it's just that this
>has been a personal fascination for me, so I like to read up on it.

If memory serves, there's a reasonable discussion of the history in John
Sloop's "Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959", NASA SP-4404.
It may be online at the NASA History web site by now. Mind you, it's from
1978 and more may be known about the spyplane side of things by now.
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