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RIP Heinz Wolff

PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:46 am
by SANEAlex
Heinz Wolff has died he interviewed Paul on the N-Prize project an while back, but to a lot UK people will be remembered for The Great Egg Race which i think has inspired a lot of inventors and engineers into their professions over the years in this country and possibly around the world in places it was shown.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42378765

Re: RIP Heinz Wolff

PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:59 am
by rick m
Also passing away recently (last month) was Lutz Kayser, founder of the first private space company OTRAG.
We considered his design of using multiple sugar rockets to do the N-Prize with sugar. Even with his low cost design and reusing the rockets, just the cost of the solid sugar propellant would put us over budget.

http://www.linkayser.com/2017-11-286

Rick