"Dave Kearton" wrote:
I'm pretty sure the beast we're looking at is an LR64 variant, leastways
that's close enough for me. I've sent a pic off to PWR and
hopefully they'll own up to it as well.
http://www.aeroconsystems.com/motors/lr64.htm
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts - except for the retard on
sci.space.history who told me to do my own research. I think my
way was a lot more educational.
I'm guessing that you were answered by Oswald Mosley, a man
with nothing to say and no trouble proving it.
http://www.astronautix.com/engines/p41ainer.htm
The Stromberg twin barrel carbie on that one would make it go like a cut
cat.
According to astronautix.com at
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/aqm37.htm
the AQM-37 can do up to Mach 3 or 4, depending on the version.
It's a target drone, and the article in your pictures is probably the
sustainer engine (the bigger thrust chamber must give it the initial
boost up to speed, but it would burn a lot of fuel). Propellants are
identified as liquid oxygen and kerosene. At least five thousand of
these drones have been manufactured since 1959. Even allowing
for the number that must have splashed into the oceans, it seems
likely that one of them could have landed in the Skylab Parking Lot.
--Bill Thompson