Rocket Test Stand No. 2, American Rocket Society (ARS)
date: label: Date
content: 1938-1941
name: label: Manufacturer
content: American Rocket Society
notes: label: Summary
content: This is American Rocket Society (ARS) Test Stand Stand No. 2 used in ground tests of experimental rocket motors. Built in 1938, it had a thrust capacity of 200 pounds.
label: Summary
content: The stand notably proved the effectiveness of James H. Wyld's regeneratively-cooled motor in tests from 1938 to 1941. This led Wyld and three other ARS members to form Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) in 1941, America's first commercial liquid-fuel rocket company which later built the 6000-pound thrust rocket engine for the Bell X-1 research rocket aircraft that broke the sound barrier in October 1947.
label: Summary
content: The stand was last used in 1942 when loaned to RM. It then was loaned in 1953 to the ARS. It was donated to the Smithsonian in 1967 by the Reaction Motors Division, Thiokol Chemical Corp.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
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content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
label: Location
content: National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
label: Exhibition
content: Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Reaction Motors Division, Thiokol Chemical Corp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19680021000
objectType: label: Type
content: EQUIPMENT-Test
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Steel frame and steel overall; two brass or copper fuel and oxidizer tanks and feed lines in back; aluminum dial pointers and other parts; glass faces on dials and two glass tubes on linear scale
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 109.2 × 61 × 135.9cm, 136.1kg (3 ft. 7 in. × 2 ft. × 4 ft. 5 1/2 in., 300lb.)