Re: Armadillo April 11, 2004

On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Doug Jones wrote:
> An off-the-wall thought on your hover tests and nitrogen capacity: if 
> your propellant tank has a manhole cover, maybe you can put some 
> stainless steel floats inside the tank to fill up some of the ullage  
> volume?  They're available cheap from McMaster-Carr, plain 304 or 316 
> stainless spheres with no mounting spuds.

They'll also help with slosh control.  I have heard (from a reliable 
source that I'm not sure I'm permitted to disclose) that DC-X had 
extremely serious propellant slosh problems, much worse than are 
generally known.  OTOH, there are folks on this list with better inside 
scoop on DC-X than I have, so maybe this isn't news.

......Andrew

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