Rocketry Planet

ROYAL PALM BEACH, Florida USA — The results of the cooperative venture between Animal Motor Works and Cesaroni Technology, Incorporated got a small preview this past weekend with Paul Robinson providing demo motors of the new AMW Pro-X line of high power rocketry products.

Robinson went south while the rest of the nation was caught in the grips of old man Winter to attend the Florida Winternationals, held February 16-18, 2008, at the wide expanse of green lawn grass of the Roth Farms, an event sponsored each year by Florida Spacemodeling Association / Tripoli West Palm.

The center of attention was the new nozzle adapters designed to allow the use of Cesaroni-style phenolic nozzles in the AMW hardware, an aluminum adapter that holds the nozzles in place in the casings centered on o-rings.

On hand for the show were "Cesaronied" versions of the AMW Red Rhino propellant, which should be available in 2-grain through 6-grain configurations for the 38mm line. 

An AMW 54mm 1050 motor was shown with the new nozzle assembly using White Wolf propellant, a J730 reporting 1220Ns with a 1.5 second burn time.  The new nozzle assembly also found its way into a Black Bear version, a J490 with 1080Ns as well as a J360 Tamed Tiger version with 1050Ns.

The new V-Max line of 54mm CTI motors were shown in J1000 2-grain, J1500 3-grain and K2000 4-grain versions, with very impressive burn times.

In total, Robinson displayed around 50 flights of the new motors, which seemed to be well received by the participants.