From Wed Sep 17 11:48:29 1997
>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 97 14:46:45 EDT
>From: JOHN SZALAY
>X-To: “mahan@microwrks.com”
>To: mahan@microwrks.com
>Subject: RE: Large guns :::
>Precendence: bulk
>Sender: mahan-owner@microworks.net
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>
>Subject: RE: Large Gun ::::
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>Ok to push the thread a little farther out, during the 1960’s, Gerald Bull
>was working at McGIll U. on Project HARP, using 16in naval gun tubes
>”borrowed” from the US Navy, to test feasability of using large guns to launch
>sats.
>The “gun” was fired at a site on the island of Barbados.
>Does anyone know more about the tubes used, where they came from (spares,
>scrapped ships etc;) and what happened to them, when the project was stopped ?
>
>Some information is on the web, but it leaves several questions unanswered.
>
> http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/GeraldBullinfo.html
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>
> John Szalay
> jpszalay@tacl.dnet.ge.com
>

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