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Old 10-15-2021, 08:26 AM
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Old 10-15-2021, 06:40 PM
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Yes--the HAD (High Altitude Density, powered by a Gosling IV first stage motor and a LAPSTAR second stage motor; the "standard" HAD released an Arcas ROBIN-type aluminized polyester film [6' or 2 m in diameter] balloon at apogee, which was tracked optically and by radar [a few HAD rounds lofted instrument payloads]) was a reliable and inexpensive vehicle. I am familiar with that useful and interesting article (the model is still on display, inside a case, at the Woomera Museum), but:

I was referring to the HAT (High Altitude Temperature) rocket, which is virtually un-documented; I have seen only one photograph (in Peter Morton's "Fire Across the Desert"), and no drawings, of a HAT round, on a rail launcher (the same one that HADs were also fired from). Its three-finned LAPSTAR second stage looked just like the HAD second stage, with the same bare-metal cone-cylinder payload fairing (or "head," as the Australians and the British called it), which contained the separating, parachute-lowered instrumented payload, and:

The HAT's first stage, though, was a side-by-side cluster of two surplus British military Demon rocket motors, which were smaller than the Gosling (the Gosling and LAPSTAR were also surplus British military rocket motors; the Australians made the nose cones, interstage transitions, and tail assemblies [later Australian sounding rockets used domestically-produced rocket motors, too]). Plus:

The HAT's first stage fins, which were nearly rectangular (they had long, narrow triangles "cut from" their leading edges; they were essentially "stretched-span" clipped delta fins), were attached to their rocket motors--two fins to each Demon motor--in the common "cruciform" ("+") configuration. Because the first stage had *two* rocket motors, the four fins formed an "X"--rather than a "+"--when the first stage was viewed from above or from below. The interstage transition was like the X-17's Stage 2/Stage 3 one (although it was shaped to adapt two--rather than three--lower-stage rocket motors to a single upper-stage motor)--the upper end of the transition interstage was made to accept the three-finned, single-motor (LAPSTAR) second stage.
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That is scale data for the HAD . . . The HAT is, essentially, the same upper stage, but with a totally different, two-motor booster.

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Old 10-15-2021, 07:56 PM
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I have seen only one photograph (in Peter Morton's "Fire Across the Desert"), and no drawings, of a HAT round, on a rail launcher (the same one that HADs were also fired from).


I just found an electronic copy of "Fire Across The Desert", online, in PDF format.

I did not see an image of the HAT in the book ( almost 600 pages ).

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Old 10-19-2021, 07:51 PM
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I just found an electronic copy of "Fire Across The Desert", online, in PDF format.

I did not see an image of the HAT in the book ( almost 600 pages ).

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I think a HAT photograph is in Morton's book. If not, the picture--showing a HAT round on one of the rail launchers at the Woomera rangehead area, near where the Skylark tower launcher was--is in a photocopied WRE (Weapons Research Establishment) brochure; one of the now-deceased WRE sounding rocket researchers (it might have been Peter Twiss) sent me some old WRE material years ago. Peter Alway or Roy Houchin may now have it; I gave them both a lot of my old scale and historical material.
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I have seen only one photograph (in Peter Morton's "Fire Across the Desert"), and no drawings, of a HAT round, on a rail launcher (the same one that HADs were also fired from).


You have a PM . . .

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