Hybrid Goals

1. Complete lab scale GOX hybrid

	1.a.	Crunch data from latest firings
		determine whether chamber pressure and thrust
		match target values

	1.b. 	Measure GOX flow rates to calibrate orifice flows

	1.c.	Plot chamber pressure and thrust versus GOX flow rates
		and compare to theoretical predictions

	1.d.	Revise GOX orifice and rocket nozzle designs as necessary
		to achieve target values for chamber pressure and thrust

	1.e.	Determine if specific impulse of GOX/paraffin hybrid 
		matches claimed performance, is it a competitive technology?

	1.f.	If specific impulse is too low, time to make a decision:
		Do we attempt to refine the paraffin hybrid to improve specific
		impulse? Or, do we abandon the paraffin hybrid for another, 
		more proven technology?

2. Once GOX/paraffin hybrid performance is proven, seek outside funding for
   development of LOX/paraffin hybrid

3. Convert lab scale GOX hybrid into lab scale LOX hybrid
	Work out any performance issues of LOX versus GOX
	Reproduce performance of GOX hybrid using LOX:
	Target chamber pressure = 500 psi
	Target thrust = 50 lbs

4. Design/build flight article LOX hybrid
	Target thrust = 1500 lbs
	Target burn time = 15 seconds
	Target construction costs <= $1000
	Target consumables costs per flight <= $100

5. Revise the fuel grain construction

	5.a.	Replace cardboard with insulating, perhaps ablative material
		which will permit burning paraffin completely to the fuel
		grain outer boundary

	5.b.	Ease the insertion into and removal from the combustion chamber

	5.c.	This task can be completed as part of step 1 or step 2




Additional Comments:

Be cautious about starting a commercial enterprise to fund these developments 
by
selling other things, such as consumer-sized hybrids. A commercial enterprise 
will
require a great deal of time to run. It will also open us to liability issues. 
These issues are acceptable if our goal is to create a start-up business to sell 

consumer hybrids but they're a painful distraction if our primary objective is 
to 
build a large, flight-article LOX hybrid. We need to be clear about our primary 

objectives and then not get distracted by peripheral concerns. Selling other 
things
is okay, if we agree that's our primary objective.