01-18-2014, 06:42 AM
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Freeform rocketry advocate.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Claremont, CA "The intellectual capitol of the world."-WSJ
Posts: 3,780
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fireman
do you know if there has ever been a definitive history written about those early, pre-NAR amateur rocket days?
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I have found each person has a different view of early history.
I suggest searching for stories by
Chuck Piper
Ray Goodson
Jerry Irvine
George James
You should find them on rec.models.rockets as well as the earliest Rocketry Online. I am pretty sure most of the messages which in any way disparaged TRA have been deleted by Troj and no longer exist. I do not know of a backup that is online and I seem to recall archive.org is not helpful for database stored message boards.
Here is the current RRS party line:
http://www.rrs.org/main/index.php?o...id=20&Itemid=33
Some groups actively delete stories by persons other than themselves as possible.
So unless someone interviews the principals before they die, plenty of history will be lost forever.
Jerry
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