The ToC for "Civilian Rocketry" showing the great expansion from "Ardent Youth" which is now out of print
 
Table of Contents
Preface 7
Here is a section you might skip … 8
Now the narrative…. 12
Origin- 12
Pre-Pubescent Rocketry- 16
Potassium Nitrate and Sugar, TF-1- 17
Early Thrust Measurements 17
Whoosh-Oops- 18
Cast TF-1- 19
Zinc/Sulfur, Micrograin Propellant- 19
Ram Jets- 21
RMRS Standard Igniter- 21
Carnegie Library- 22
Jim Boudreau and the Black Powder Cannon- 22
The "Real" Aluminum Rocket- 22
Busted- 23
Fin Test Vehicles- 23
Fuse Motor Parts 23
Herb Praskey Gets Stuck- 24
Bill Colburn Gets Stuck- 24
Rodeo Static Tests- 25
Creativity at Dirk's Lab- 25
Manual Arts Award- 25
Entry in the County Fair- 26
Forest Pool Pulse Jets- 27
The Centrifuge- 27
The Petznick Rocket Lab- 28
Injector Tests at Don Snyder's- 28
The Creamery- 28
The Blow-out Plug vehicle- 28
Closet Rocketeers- 29
First Liquid Motor- 29
Pulse Liquid Motor- 30
Liquid Motor Tests at Trabing's Ranch- 30
Propellant Nomenclature- 32
Miss Pogue- 32
We Adopt a Motto- 32
Launchers of the RMRS- 33
The Most Hazardous Operation- 33
Successful TF-1 End-Burner- 33
Asphalt-Perchlorate Propellant (GALCIT)- 34
Later Asphalt- 34
Static Tests- 35
Spin Stabilized- 35
PRS and RRS- 36
Hypergolic Hybrid- 36
Ammonium Nitrate Composites- 37
My High School Chemistry Fun- 38
Hypergol Tests- 38
I become a Dissertation- 38
Two Sacramento Trips- 38
The Okha Rocket Kamikaze Plane- 39
The Walther H2O2 Engine- 39
A  Lesson In Micrograin- 40
Central Electric- 40
Hunting-Bye Refrigeration- 41
Ram Jet Booster- 41
The Last Rocket- 41
The Last Rocket, again- 42
The Rolled Crimp- 42
The Libyan Launches- 42
North African Justice- 43
Project VEDRIM in Africa- 48
Maryland Tests- 48
Project VEDRIM- 50
Semicon- 50
Project Hijump- 50
Last Touch of Amateur Rocketry- 53
What Happened to the Members?- 54
Resurgence of Civil Experimental Rocketry- 54
The SORAC Project- 55
The SORAC Four-Port Grain- 59
The Daisy Grain- 61
The Flight Computer- 62
The SORAC Flight Termination System- 63
SORAC Fin Assemblies-A short history of each vehicle- 64
SORAC, the Facilities- 69
The HAH Series- 70
The Millenium Launch- 72
The SORAC Project Addendum 73
SORAC Accomplishments: 77
SORAC H5 Launch Vehicle Avionics Packages 80
Attitude Sensor/Flight Termination System (AS/FTS) 83
Typical SORAC Scheduling 85
Photographs from the  
Rocket Motor Research Society Archives  
1954-1960 88
Fin and Wing Construction in the Rocket Motor Research Society 89
The Satellite Project of the Rocket Motor Research Society 90
First Telemetered Rocket of the RMRS 91
Cantilever Load Cell 92
Hydraulic Load Cell 93
The RMRS NALR, a Seven Foot 94
Bi-Propellant Rocket Vehicle 94
The Ram Jet Test Vehicles 95
RMRS Fin Test Vehicle 96
Three Stage Micrograin Record Vehicle 97
The UHF Downlink for the NALR Vehicle 98
The Solid Propellant Aerospike Motor 99
Sub-Sonic Ram Jet test Vehicle 100
Micrograin Delta Glider 101
The Vorpal Sword Ram Jet Vehicle 102
Addendum Excerpts from the 103
Original Ardent Youth 103
Herb Praskey working on a Firing Box 134
RMRS TF-1 Standard Motor Description 136
Test Stand for RMRS Standard Motors 139
TF-1 Mass Action Analysis 140
Other Early Rocket Societies 141
Rocket Society of the American Academy of Sciences 141
GIRD 141
German Rocket Society (Verein fur Raumschiffarhrt, VfR) 141
American Rocket Society 141
Cleveland Rocket Society 142
The Rocket Research Institute of California 143
Reaction Missile Research Society of New Mexico 143
Sooner Rocket Society of Enid, Oklahoma 143
Reaction Research Associates of New Mexico 144
3S Group of Napa, California 144
Arlington Rocket Society of Arlington Virginia 144
San Carlos Rocket Society of San Carlos, California 145
San Francisco Rocket Society of San Francisco California 145
Richard Nakka,Canada 145
El Cajon Rocket Society of El Cajon California 145
Independent Rocket Society 146
Another El Cajon Rocket Society 146
William Colburn's Current Activities in Brief 147
Gelled Propellant Dart Research Vehicle 148
Ablative Boilerplate Bi-Propellant Engine 149
FerretWorks Hybrid Restart Igniter 149