James C. McCormick

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James C. McCormick also Jim McCormick (* before 1945; † 2007 ) was a flight engineer in the USA who gave valuable impulses to the development of rocket engines with hydrogen peroxide .

Life

From May 19, 1943 to 1945 McCormick was a flight engineer with the 775th Bombardment Squadron on a Boeing B-17 .

From 1945 to 1954 he worked for the Buffalo Electro Chemical Company (BECCO), which manufactured and sold hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine . In 1954, BECCO was taken over by Field Mechanical Tech (FMC). From June 1954 to June 1956 McCormick carried out series of tests at the US Naval Engineering Experiment Station in Annapolis . The aim was to optimize the combustion chamber of a submarine drive that burned diesel and hydrogen peroxide.

From 1958 to 1963 McCormick worked as a consultant for McDonnell Aircraft on Project Mercury of NASA .

From 1960 he worked as a consultant for Bell Aerosystems and designed the drive for the jetpack Small Rocket Lift Device , which was developed for the US military. The backpack also worked with hydrogen peroxide and developed a thrust of 1250 N. In 1960 and 1961 some successful test flights were carried out. The project manager Wendell Moore stated that without McCormick's contributions the backpack could not have been realized.

Other space projects McCormick was involved in included the Scout launcher , the Agena upper stage , the Syncom satellites, NASA's Lunar Landing Simulator, and the Apollo rescue rocket . He also worked on solving the combustion problems of the F1 engines of the Saturn V rocket and on the development of underwater vehicles.

He is the author of the standard work "Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket Manual", which FMC first published in 1964 and which has been reprinted several times. In 1997, McCormick became Chief Propulsion Scientist for Thunderbolt Aerosystems.

Publications

  • Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket Manual , 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sanscrainte, McCormick, Bloom: Engineering Consulting Services Performed By BECCO Chemical Division Of Food Machinery And Chemical Cooperation In Conjunction With Alton Project Development At US Naval Engineering Experiment Station, Annapolis, Maryland. (PDF; 4.1 MB; 96 pages) BECCO, August 31, 1956, accessed on June 10, 2009 (English).
  2. ↑ Rocket Belt. Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana, December 26, 2008, accessed June 10, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Chief Propulsion Scientist. Thunderbolt Aerosystems, 2007, accessed June 10, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME McCormick, James C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCormick, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rocket engineer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1945
DATE OF DEATH 2007
Place of death United States