well, hurrah!
Today is an exciting day. The legal battle with the Buearu of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives finally ended with a federal judge declaring the the BATFE had not proven their case that Ammonium Perchlorate fuels were explosive. The BATFE is to stop enforcement action against hobbyists using these solid rocket motors.
This is exciting for us at Beyond-Earth because we use AP fuels, too and this means that the regulations just got a little easier to cope with.
And now, maybe, I’m a little less likely to get “randomly selected” for special screenings by the airport security people every time I go through an airport since I won’t be listed as a explosives carrier any longer. :) Well, with any luck… I’m going to Chicago next week. We’ll see how it goes.
PS: Happy Anniversary to Robert Goddard’s first successful flight of liquid-fueled rockets in 1926! This flight from Auburn, Massachusetts (he hadn’t yet moved to Roswell, NM) is the rocketry equivalent of the Kitty Hawk flight of the Wright Brothers.
