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Old 06-28-2019, 06:28 PM
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I checked the r.m.r. archives, which only go back to around mid-1992. The terms, BAR and YABAR were in use then, but without the user going out of his way to inform the reader what they were.

Best guess so far - pre-1992.

Jack Hagerty included the term, BAR, in his "Glossary of Hobby Rocketry Terms" that he would post on rec.models.rockets. The earliest copy that I could find is dated April 1993. He mentions that the terms were compiled by himself, Buzz McDermott, and an anonymous user on the Compuserve Sport Rocketry Forum. His preamble suggests that they were compiling terms from over the whole hobby, so there is no direct evidence that the term originated from one of the electronic forums. I wouldn't rule out a NAR Section newsletter as a source.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!s...24/JmX9x3oY6O8J

Bruce - I don't know where the term came from. It was in common use back in 1994 or so when I became a BAR.
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