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Old February 2nd 07, 10:37 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Dave Kearton
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Default Need help with a rocket motor ID

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:38:32 +1030, "Dave Kearton"
wrote:

It looks American, not Russian, but sometimes that is hard to tell.
No. xx495 has some writing in it. Looks to me like part of it says
"Sy6xx". So, it isn't Russian, I guess (they get along without those
letters). The "y", if that is what it is, is very funny shaped.

Any writing is very important for ID's.

(I remember many years ago there was a paper in some technical journal
which was written by some Australians in which they described an
object found in the "outback". They considered whether it might be a
bit of reentered space debris. Part of the description was an ink
stamp of a small circle with "CVA263" inside it. That is a "Convair
Astronautics" inspector's stamp. I was convinced already.)


Henry H.




Having a closer look at the original pics, before I resized them, these
are the only views could find with text.


It's a possiblity that we can trace the pics back to the article itself if
you need more details.




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Cheers

Dave Kearton