RED ARROW HOBBIES 5095 Red Arrow Hwy. Stevensville, MI. 49127 Experimental Composite Propellant By Terry W. McCreary Ph.D Soft cover - 243 pages TABLE OF CONTENTS: Forward and Acknowledgments Introduction Safety first! Is this legal? What is composite propellant? How does a composite rocket motor work? That theory stuff Burn rate a pressure Area ratio and pressure Grain configurations The nozzle Equipment and supplies The simple starter propellant Troubleshooting the starter propellant: physical properties Constructing static-test motors Static tests Ballistic parameters from static tests Flight motor design Single use flight motor construction Modifying the starter propellant Scaling down and up APPENDICES: What is propEP? The ProPel notebook A curing box Using coring rods Nozzle construction The reloadable motor Igniters Propellant and polymer chemistry Cure calculations Mixing procedures with HTPB binder Larger batches and machine mixing Vacuum processing Asimple thrust stand The combustion process Sources for materials ProPep runs the listed propellants Annotated bibliography Sermonettes