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Old 06-17-2010, 03:42 PM
Richard Hull Richard Hull is offline
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Thanks for the update noting a possible variant and later production.

Apparently Texaco did sell the rights. I know Dr. Burke noted that the lawn dart aspect for the missle return caused Texaco to leave the field to avoid any liability and discontinued it in the early 60's.

The successor producer may have modified it to two stage. I am unfamiliar with any upgrades. But, to answer the original question, the original "fuel" and "oxidizer" contained in the little drums was Sodium Carbonate and Citric Acid.

By the time you were playing with your upgraded alpha-1 missle in 1967-68, I was out of college and in the air force in Vietnam.
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