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Old 11-17-2021, 03:39 PM
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Default HAD model article query

Hello All,

In the early 1970s, someone--it may have been George Flynn, whose scale article on the Australian HAD (High Altitude Density; it had a Gosling first stage and a LAPSTAR second stage) sounding rocket appeared in the April 1970 issue of "Model Rocketry" magazine (see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/Mo...02n07_04-70.pdf )--sent a very well-built ("Mike Hellmund quality") HAD scale model rocket to Woomera, where most of them were flown (except for the Carnarvon campaign). Well:

Somewhere online (I have been unable to find it online again; it was several years ago), I once came across--and it wasn't, to my knowledge, in "The Wayback Machine" site--an article in some early 1970s model rocketry magazine (I don't know which, or its issue), which showed two Woomera sounding rocket men examining the HAD scale model--many if not all of the pictures were in color! (The 1970 "Model Rocketry" issues' photos were all black-and-white.) Whoever built it used a Centuri parachute, as can be seen in a photograph of it that appears in Kerrie Dougherty's book Australia in Space: A History of a Nation's Involvement (see: https://books.google.com/books?id=K...0sphere&f=false [just scroll down 2 or 3 pages when it opens]). Now:

Does anyone here know which magazine, and which issue, that article was in (and know where it can be found online)? Kerrie Dougherty, an Australian spaceflight historian (she has also participated in downrange expeditions to find and recover Woomera-launched ELDO Europa vehicles), reproduced that HAD model photograph in her book as if it were a picture of an actual HAD vehicle (the caption says: ‘Exploded’ view of a HAD sounding rocket, showing its major components, including the parachute used to return scientific instruments safely to the ground after a flight. (Photo courtesy of Defence Science and Technology Group) ), and:

I had a hearty horse laugh at that, but in fairness, the HAD model looks real, and the DSTO likely didn't know--and didn't say--that the HAD rocket in the picture is a model. I would like to send that article link to her; one of the Woomera folks examining the HAD model was likely Peter Twiss (no longer with us, sadly), who I corresponded with many years ago. (That model is in a glass display case at the Woomera museum [and they have an actual HAD round, too].)

Many thanks to anyone who can help!
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