Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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Col. Edward N. Hall, one of the U.S. Air Force's foremost rocket engine experts, and generally acknowledged as the "father" of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile(ICBM) program, died on Sunday, January 15, 2006, at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. He was ninety-one and had been bedridden for more than a year at his home in Rolling Hills Estates, California.
Hall helped develop the solid-fuel rocket technology that was subsequently used in most other U.S. missiles, including the Polaris, the Titan III, and IV and the boosters on the space shuttle. Early U.S. rockets were liquid fueled, typically operating on a mixture of liquid oxygen and alcohol or kerosene. But these compounds proved unstable and the rockets could not be kept fueled and ready for launch. Instead, the fuels had to be pumped in before launch through a labyrinthine system of pipes,...
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