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Should you wish to contact the
society please use the following Email address: For general information please
contact: Should you encounter any
problems with this Web
Page please email: Gordon Ross
(Past President), formerly
known as Gordon Dick, is Director of ASTRA's Waverider
research project. The earlier WASP, the Waverider
Aerodynamic Study Project, was run by Gordon and others in
ASTRA's Ayrshire Branch, and conducted the first ever free
flights and rocket launches to free flight of Waverider
models. Gordon later built the first radio-controlled
free-flying Waverider
model, now in the care of Glasgow's Museum of Transport, and
lectured at the First International Waverider
Symposium at the University of Maryland in 1990, on which he
reported for Asgard. He has collaborated with Duncan Lunan
on articles for Analog, on 'Flight in Non-Terrestrial
Atmospheres' (including Waverider
applications) and his 'Solaris' solar sail design and its
'Comet-chaser' variant, intended to protect Earth from
impact hazards. Gordon was a founder member of the
Ayrshire Branch in 1981 and was actively involved in
rocketry in Ayrshire during the 1980's, at the first
Scottish Rocket Weekends. In 1995 he updated and remounted
ASTRA's space photo exhibition. He is now developing a
revolutionary family of flexible aerofoils, including
Waveriders,
with the backing of Garrard Hassan and the Glasgow
Development Agency: he unveiled the new flex-wing
Waverider designs, developed
from the Analog article, at the 1995 Edinburgh International
Science Festival, and contributed two articles on them to
the June 1997 Asgard. Next
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