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NEXT MEETING -
ASQ London Section 0403 presents….
Aerospace
- the Canadian Arrow
Thursday –
November 10th 2005
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location:
Community Hall,
Earl Nichols Arena, 799 Homeview Rd, London
(The Hall has its own entrance just north of the main doors.)
Map: http://www.arenamaps.com/arenas/1478.htm
Guest Speaker: Geoff
Sheerin, President and CEO of PLANETSPACE (alias Canadian Arrow)
Geoff Sheerin is founder
and President of Canadian Arrow. Together with partner Dr. Chirinjeev
Kathuria, they have formed the company PlanetSpace. They are projecting
manned space flight as early as 2007 in their rocket called the Canadian
Arrow. Geoff recently returned from Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he was
part of a large group of rocket enthusiasts for the first ever meeting
called “Countdown to the X Prize Cup”.
Geoff and his team
has laid all of the necessary groundwork for his rocket . He will talk
about some of the challenges he has faced in this frontier of Canadian
research including:
* Overview of the
project and how it got started
* Focus on development of rocket engine and some of the test that were
performed
* Talk about the errors found in literature on the V-2 rocket and impact
on quality control
* Discussion of future work and challenges they need to meet.
Overall the presentation will talk about the history of the Canadian Arrow
project and the challenge of doing engineering archeology in the endeavor
to rebuild a 1940's technology. The focus of the presentation will be
on the engine development and the tests needed to be performed before
the first burn was achieved. During the research into the rocket many
errors were found in the history books and they needed to find and correct
them before their main engine was ignited. The presentation will end with
some of the goals and challenges left before the first flight of the Arrow.
Agenda
6:30 to 7:00 pm: Refreshments
and Networking
7:00 to 7:15 pm ASQ Section business and announcements
7:15 to 8:15 pm The Canadian Arrow Project
8:15 to 8:30 pm Questions and Answers
8:30 to 9:00 pm Other ASQ Business
RSVP your attendance
to Klaus Martinek
at k.martinek@sparton.ca
GU
E S T S .... A R E ....WE L C OM E !
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