Rocketry Planet

LAKE HAVASU CITY, Arizona USA — Tom Sanders announced yesterday the availability of Contrail Rockets-brand Ground Support Equipment (GSE).  This new equipment includes features which Sanders believes makes this new product very durable and useful to hybrid users today. Months in development, the GSE system produced by Contrail is now ready for release to hybrid fliers everywhere.

The Contrail-brand GSE brings new innovation to the hybrid market by using new features only available in the Contrail GSE system. Innovative features found only in the Contrail GSE include:

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  Contrail Rockets' new Ground Support Equipment.
  3-wire extension cord used for the controller-to-pad connection. Regular outdoor-type extension cords can be used.
• Compact and durable design takes up less space than other GSE systems and is rugged enough to be used in the harshest environments such as dry lake beds and salt flats.
• Self-contained battery in the hand-held unit allows for up-to-and-beyond 500 foot of extension cord to be used.
• Laser-etched hand controller and pad module.
• Designed to fire all Contrail Rockets hybrids as well as any other monotube hybrid motor — AP motors as well!
• Option for continuous-filling-and-firing at same time, as well as filling-then-firing without waste of nitrous supply.
• Safe circuit will not allow purge and fire at the same time.

The new Contrail Rockets GSE system eliminates one of the most problematic part of GSE Systems today: the 4-conductor cord. This cord is often just a 22 gauge single-core telephone-type wire which is flimsy and prone to damage in the field. The single-core wire is small enough that they can break internally from being dragged around in the field.

Not only is the wire itself a problem, but the connectors used with this type of wire are not considered heavy-duty. They often break, wear out, or get dirt between the small contacts rendering them useless. The new Contrail System eliminates this type of wire and replaces it with heavy-duty extension cords, commonly 14 or 16 gauge multi-strand wire designed to take lots of abuse. They are cheap and serve more than one purpose.

Initially, Contrail Rockets plans to give away a number of GSE sets to customers for use with Contrail Rockets hybrids motors. More details on such a promotion will follow at a later date.  The new Contrail Brand GSE Systems are only available at this time directly through Contrail Rockets.

For more information, visit the Contrail Rockets website: http://www.contrailrockets.com/