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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines.
		The only rocket plane ever to be mass-produced was the Messerschmitt Me 163 in 1944, one of several German World War II attempts at rocket-powered aircraft.
		The rocket was the main engine for delivering the speed and height required for high speed interception of high level bombers and the turbojet gave increased fuel economy in other parts of flight, most notably to make sure the aircraft was able to make a powered landing rather than risking an unpredictable gliding return.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=rocket_plane (409 words)

	Bell X-1
		On October 14, 1947, Charles "Chuck" Yeager of the USAF flew this aircraft.
		The rocket powered aircraft was launched from the belly of a specially modified B-29 and glided to a landing on a runway.
		Honored at the White House by President Truman were Larry Bell for Bell Aircraft, Captain Yeager for piloting the flights, and John Stack of NACA for the NACA contributions.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/b/be/bell_x_1.html (421 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Bell X-1 - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rocket tests later demonstrated that 1/3rd scale models of the M.52 were capable of stable flight at Mach 1.5.
		The key difference between the two aircraft was that the M.52 had a turbofan equipped with a reheat-pipe (afterburner), rather than a liquid fuel rocket, and was capable of taking off and landing under its own power.
		Aircraft number #48-1386 was the first of the second generation of supersonic rocket planes.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Bell_X-1 (1933 words)

	ipedia.com: List of rocket planes Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rocket planes or rocket aircraft can be subdivided by the few rocket powered aircraft to have existed.
		Rocket powered aircraft have a reasonbly bright future in the form of space planes such as those made for the ANSARI X PRIZE.
		The main categories of rocket planes to have existed are experimental, fighter-interceptor, and space plane.
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_rocket_planes.html (288 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Rocket planes or rocket aircraft can be subdivided by the few rocket powered aircraft to have existed.
		Rocket powered aircraft have a reasonbly bright future in the form of space planes such as those made for the ANSARI X PRIZE.
		The majority of rocket planes that have been built have been for experimental use, as interceptor fighters, and space plane.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=List_of_rocket_planes (540 words)

	SPACE.com -- Wirefly X Prize Cup: Rocketry Takes Center Stage
		All manner of rocket, be it strap on, ride in, or a project-in-progress, will be found at the Wirefly X Prize Cup being staged October 20-21 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
		"Rocketizing" various modes of transportation--be it a bicycle or a 2003 Chevy SS--is the propulsion province of Tim Pickens, president of Orion Propulsion in Madison, Alabama.
		For the Rocket Truck at the upcoming Cup, Pickens and his team are using an asphalt and nitrous-oxide-powered hybrid rocket engine.
	www.space.com /news/061013_xprizecup_rockets.html (963 words)

	The Evolution of Rockets
		In the latter, the fuel gradually burned off (as it did in early gunpowder rockets), and the entire fuel container was under pressure, supplying hot gas directly to the De-Laval nozzle.
		The military's rockets were larger and more ambitious, and the A2 which flew in 1934 developed a thrust of 16000 newton.
		The usual payload of the V-2 rocket was one ton (1000 kg), and with that a height of about 100 km was possible.
	www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov /stargaze/Srockhis.htm (1506 words)

	AIAA - Aerospace America Online - EXPLAINING X-PLANES - From innovation to variation, a growing number of programs are ...
		Rausch worked for years on the National Aerospace Plane Program (NASP), a now-defunct project that was a joint effort by the Air Force and NASA to develop a hypersonic plane that was supposed to revolutionize global air travel and spaceflight.
		NASA will use the new X-37 reusable rocket, and data from the recently tested X-40A vehicle, to study the challenges of operating an unpiloted reusable spaceplane in orbit and then returning it safely to Earth.
		The plane earned its X-designation in July, shortly before construction of the vehicle was completed, Northrop said in a press statement.
	www.aiaa.org /aerospace/Article.cfm?issuetocid=154&ArchiveIssueID=20 (2271 words)

	POWERLABS's Rocket Propulsion Page!
		Also, my research with solid rocket fuels has reached the point where I would now be able to produce my own high performance rocket with a fair degree of certainty that it would work.
		It made a beautiful rocket flame and an awful lot of noise, but when I really throttled it up the pressure inside the combustion chamber became so high that it pumped the fuel back along the fuel line and the engine started running roughly...
		Rocket engines operate at very high pressures and can cause great damage if they are to explode.
	www.powerlabs.org /rockets.html (2228 words)

	Space Vehicles - Vehicle Designs
		is a sub-orbital four-seater rocket vehicle aimed at the future hobbyist market as an all-inclusive kit for an expected price of somewhere between a quarter and half $million, though you'll have to supply the fuel yourself.
		was to use a centrifugally-pumped rocket motor for launch, and a helicopter rotor for descent.
		Although, in future, new-technology air-breathing rocket engines may come to be used for some part of passenger launch vehicles' flight to orbit, it's difficult to make a convincing case that vehicles using technology that doesn't exist yet will be competitive with ones using known technology for at least the next few decades.
	www.spacefuture.com /vehicles/designs.shtml (3780 words)

	Bottle Rockets
		To me, the bottle rocket is the best physical science teaching tool there is. I have to thank the folks involved with Science Olympiad for introducing me to the activity.
		If the any part of the rocket becomes unattached during flight, the rocket will be marked as a detachment and no bonus points will be awarded.
		Timing of the rocket starts when the rocket leaves the launch pad, and stops when the first part of the rocket hits the ground, when the rocket disappears from the judges' sight, or when the rocket impacts or gets entangled in an object (e.g.
	members.aol.com /hayhurst1/h2orocket.htm (1657 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - F-35 JSF Weapon Carriage Capacity
		A list of the weapons that are currently planned for internal carriage on the F-35 is shown below.
		The wish list of weapons that the various services originally asked to be put on the aircraft was enormous and would require tremendous time and cost to fulfill.
		Already eliminated from the list of internally carried stores are older unguided weapons like the Mk 82/83/84 general purpose bombs since it is very unlikely that the services would need to send the plane on a stealthy mission while carrying such archaic weapons.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/planes/q0163.shtml (1801 words)

	Jihad Unspun - A Clear View On The US War On "Terrorism"
		In response, US aircraft hysterically rocketed and bombed various parts of the city, the correspondent reported, trying to knock out the launch sites of the rockets that blasted into the American arsenal.
		Residents of al-Habbaniyah agreed that nine massive transport planes arrived at various times during the night and into the morning bringing casualties to the US military hospital at the base.
		Mafkarat al-Islam observed, however, that the landing of nine massive transport planes carrying US casualties was an important indicator that the number of Americans killed or wounded in the Resistance assault on Falcon arsenal was very substantial.
	www.jihadunspun.com /intheatre_internal.php?article=106537&list=/home.php (1818 words)

	Friends of Liberty - Planes of 911 Exceeded Their Software Limits
		The plane that hit the Pentagon approached or reached its actual physical limits, military personnel have calculated that the Pentagon plane pulled between five and seven g's in its final turn.
		However, the planes in question were neither flying level, nor were they intended to survive the extreme banking the pilots were subjecting them to.
		I dont know the height the plane was at at that time, but the higher it is, the more signals come in, which degrades the quality and confuses the phone more, not to mention lowering the signal level.
	www.propagandamatrix.com /planes_of_911_exceeded_their_software_limits.htm (6077 words)

	Rocket league signs up first racing team - Space.com - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To race in the rocket league, Leading Edge pilots and their competitors are destined to race for best times and prize money while zooming through a three-dimensional race course that comes complete with refueling pit stops.
		The league’s X-Racer rocket planes are based on the EZ-Rocket design developed by XCOR Aerospace in Mojave, Calif.
		The rocket league’s first Mark-1 X-Racer — featuring a modified airframe built by Velocity Aircraft and a single liquid-oxygen and kerosene rocket engine — will make its debut during the October X Prize Cup in Las Cruces.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11101951 (936 words)

	HOBBIES : RC Model Planes & Aircraft : Electric RC Helicopters: Introduction : DIY Network
		The "pitch" in this case refers to the angle of the blade with respect to the horizontal plane.
		If you think of the movement of the helicopter's main rotor around in a horizontal plane as like disc, pitch can be applied at various points of the "disc" to control the roll and pitch of the helicopter.
		The position and action of the paddles are actuated by tiny servos (much like those used in RC cars or planes) and a network of tiny linkages aligned at right angles (figure I).
	www.diynetwork.com /diy/rc_planes_aircraft/article/0,2033,DIY_14224_2311254,00.html (625 words)

	Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
		The North American X-15 rocket plane was perhaps the most important of the USAF/NASA/USN X-series of experimental aircraft, after only possibly the Bell X-1.
		The original Request for Proposals was issued for the airframe December 30, 1954, and for the rocket engine on February 4, 1955.
		The two XLR-11 rocket engines of the initial model X-15A delivered 36 kN (8,000 lbf) of thrust; the "real" engine that came later was a single XLR-99 that delivered 254 kN (57,000 lbf) at sea level, and 311 kN (70,000 lbf) at peak altitude.
	www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=X-15 (1455 words)

	Getting Started in Video Rocketry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Choosing a rocket: Because the resulting system is so small and light (under 4 oz total), there are about as many ways to mount this in a rocket as you can think of.
		Once the rocket gets farther away, you need to keep the (ground) receiver's antenna pointing towards the rocket's antenna or you will experience signal loss.
		The best solution to this is to align the rocket's antenna perpendicular to the length of the rocket (parallel with the ground) and to have the receiver's antenna as close to the launcher as possible.
	www.dph.com /vidroc/Getting_Started/getting_started.htm (2234 words)

	Rocket-List Archive Browser
		The Lists are a forum for all types of dialog that involve the particular List in question.
		If all of the Listers on a given List were in one big room meeting and communicating in the manner that we do on the Lists, then people such as Fabian and myself, for that matter, would obviously be promoting our products to anyone that would listen.
		On the plans we have here there is a listing of K1100-O8 for the aft row of anchor nuts on the fuel tank that attach to the main spar webb.
	www.matronics.com /archive/archive-get.cgi?Rocket-Archive.digest.vol-am (9123 words)

	Experimental Airplanes, Aircraft, X Planes
		These planes are so secret that even most of the top military officials and possibly even the president don't know about them.
		Other aircraft in the X Plane projects like the X-1, X-2 and X-15 are highly publicized.
		This plane was called the Billion Dollar Baby and so was the title of the article.
	www.yellowairplane.com /yellow_airplane_store/G_X-planes.html (1326 words)

	Defense Tech: Planes, Copters, Blimps Archives
		Except its wings are flexible, twisting as the plane races through the air at transonic speeds -- and giving the plane better maneuverability, in the process.
		By extension, if you have weapons firing out of one side of the plane they can maintain accurate fire on a fixed point even though the plane is moving at relatively high speed.
		Unless you count some unexplained sonic booms or the uninformed testimony of one amateur plane spotter (who was probably, unknowingly, looking at a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit), there is not a shred of evidence of Aurora's existence.
	www.defensetech.org /archives/cat_planes_copters_blimps.html (11597 words)

	Suchmaschine
		The majority of rocket planes that have been built have been for experimental use, as interceptor fighters, and space plane.
		Not all rocket planes are of the conventional takeoff like "normal" aircraft.
		It is also possible, that rocket planes launch vertically without changing their orientation.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=List_of_rocket_planes (496 words)

	Jetex Archive: Back Room: Rocket Planes
		Here are two plans for rocket planes that were given away in the Aeromodeller issue of June 1939 (thanks to Peter Tolhurst for this contribution).
		The flying instructions included this note: 'Unless the model carries the weight of the rocket well while gliding, after being launched from the hand, it will not fly unless the rocket has extreme power.
		One of the free plans given away with this magazine in June 1939 was a twin-boom all-balsa machine powered by the so-called 'penny rocket'.
	jetex.org /cja/back_room-rocket_planes-am-9301.html (312 words)

	List of rocket planes Information
		Since most rocket powered planes have limited fuel capacity they also tend to have to function as gliders.
		Bell X-1 First plane to break the sound barrier in controlled, level flight.
		SpaceShipOne First civilian-funded and built aircraft to reach Mach 3, first civilian-funded and built spacecraft to fly above 100 km altitude, first reusable civilian-funded and built spacecraft.
	www.bookrags.com /Rocket_aircraft (246 words)

	Planet Quake - News, Screenshots, Previews, Reviews, Guides
		This is a "total conversion" with players replaced by fighter planes and other military vehicles, a...
		These are Quake's original map sources and were released by John Romero on October 12, 2006.
		One player/team starts in a "plane" and free falls into water and has to attack the building which t...
	planetquake.gamespy.com /View.php?view=Quake.List&game=6 (457 words)

	Six Flags Over Texas : Rides List
		Spread your wings and fly as nine planes zip around the oval-shaped course.
		Each plane can accommodate up to four children or one adult and two children.
		Go into orbit as the rocket and its 50 passengers make several exhilarating 360-degree loops before swinging back earthward to a gentle stop.
	www.sixflags.com /parks/overtexas/Rides/list.html (1228 words)

	Rocket-List Archive Browser
		What this means at the most basic level is that, if you post a message to List from Email in the traditional way, it will show up on the BBS system and get distributed to everyone currently subscribed to the Email List.
		However, to receive direct List Email, you will need to be subscribed to the various Lists as you have in the past.
		Kevin Shannon Superintendent Severson Construction, LLC Hey Rocket world The C4B5 I bought has 800 hours on it, so I want to have the Bendix servo and the mags overhauled before installing on the plane.
	www.matronics.com /archives/archive-get.cgi?Rocket-Archive.digest.vol-ap (7383 words)

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