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Perforated Walls. The revolutionary rifle is the brainchild of Belgian Chemical Engineer Jules van Langenhoven, a gun fancier who began to experiment with new propellants in 1951 in an effort to reduce the weight of cartridges. By 1961, Van Langenhoven had produced a derivative of nitrocellulose that could be ignited by a jet of hot air and that actually eliminated the need for a cartridge. Daisy President Cass Hough got wind of Van Langenhoven's experiments and flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified...
Hough hired Van Langenhoven and moved him to Daisy's home plant in Rogers, Ark., where the chemist concentrated on perfecting a solid propellant while the company's engineers were designing air rifles capable of using it efficiently. After five years, their combined efforts produced a weapon of classic simplicity. The V-L (for Van Langenhoven) bullet consists merely of a cylindrical plug of solid propellant attached to the rear of a slug or missile. When the trigger of a V-L rifle is pulled, a powerful spring drives a cocked plunger into a cylinder, compressing and heating...
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