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	Rocket-powered aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket for propulsion, sometimes in addition to 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 first truly successful rocket plane was the North American X-15, which was used for several years and eventually broke Mach 6.0.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocket_plane (185 words)

	List of rocket planes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_rocket_planes (254 words)

	rocket -> Development of Rockets on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The invention of the rocket is generally ascribed to the Chinese, who as early as AD 1000 stuffed gunpowder into sections of bamboo tubing to make military weapons of considerable effectiveness.
		The astronautical use of rockets was cogently argued in the beginning of the 20th cent.
		A three-stage rocket, it stood 300 ft (91 m) high exclusive of payload and with the Apollo delivered a payload of 44 tons to the moon.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/rocket2_developmentofrockets.asp (759 words)

	John Kallend's rocket page
		On the left is a NCR Bomarc flown on an F62 motor at the Park Forest Rocket Launch.
		The rocket on the right is a scale model of an HV Arcas, being flown with a G64W motor at a CIA launch at Rantoul, Illinois.
		It takes two rocket motors, one for launch and the other is ignited in the air by radio control.
	www.iit.edu /~kallend/rock.html (327 words)

	Encyclopedia: RATO
		Early experiments with using rockets to boost sailplanes into the air were conducted in Germany in the 1920s, but practical JATO systems were first introduced by the RAF early in World War II.
		After firing, the rocket was released from the back of the plane to fall into the water (and sink).
		The JATO Rocket Car is a famous urban legend that relates the story of a car equipped with JATO units for a lark, that is later found smashed into a mountainside.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RATO (607 words)

	rocket -> Rocket Propulsion on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The force acting on a rocket, called its thrust, is equal to the mass ejected per second times the velocity of the expelled gases.
		In the case of a rocket, the action is the backward-streaming flow of gas and the reaction is the forward motion of the rocket.
		Another way of understanding rocket propulsion is to realize that tremendous pressure is exerted on the walls of the combustion chamber except where the gas exits at the rear; the resulting unbalanced force on the front interior wall of the chamber pushes the rocket forward.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/rocket2_RocketPropulsion.asp (557 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)

	Jetex.org: the Back Room - Sparey's Rocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is because it is based on a German rocket model of 1936 [Ed.: This is undoubtedly the Haase Rocket Plane, depicted by Frank Zaic in his Model Aeronautical Yearbook of 1944].
		The string and rocket case are removed and when the latter is dry it is reassembled over the mould with the brass tube in place.
		The rocket powder is poured in to a one inch depth and compressed with the rammer.
	jetex.org /back_room/back_room-rocket_planes-sparey.html (755 words)

	Rocket plane -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A rocket plane is an (A vehicle that can fly) aircraft that uses a (A jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion) rocket for propulsion, possibly in addition to (A gas turbine produces a stream of hot gas that propels a jet plane by reaction propulsion) jet engines.
		The first truly successful rocket plane was the (Click link for more info and facts about North American X-15) North American X-15, which was used for several years and eventually broke (Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)) Mach 6.0.
		The development of (Click link for more info and facts about SpaceShipOne) SpaceShipOne, first flown in 2003, suggests that rocket planes may become more common, as (Click link for more info and facts about spaceplane) spaceplanes are one of very few practical ways to reach (An area reserved for some particular purpose) space.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rocket_plane.htm (233 words)

	Rocket Racing League
		Rocket races will operate much like auto races, with the exception that the "track" is up in the sky.
		The rocket planes, called X-Racers, will take off from a runway both in a staggered fashion and side-by side and fly a course based on the design of a Grand Prix competition, with long straight-aways, vertical ascents, and deep banks.
		The Rocket Racing League is an aerospace entertainment organization which combines the competition of racing with the excitement of rocketry.
	www.rocketracingleague.com /media/press_releases/20051003_diamandis-launches-rrl.html (1044 words)

	Rockets Awayâ”the space program hastened - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board
		By 1940, the US had a missile similar to the V-2, and a limited number of rocket planes (short ranged, finicky, well armed, and very fast.) Larger rockets were on the drawing boardsâ”the accuracy of the current ones was unacceptable.
		The rocket powered fighters were of little offensive use due to their short range, but they inspired faster development of the Komet and ME-262 jets.
		The existence of Soviet planes with nuclear capability spurred American air to air missile development, although the American ICBMâs were thought to be an effective deterrent for the moment.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=6167 (2507 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rocket racing: New league promotes high-flying contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rocket races will be similar to auto races, but will be in the sky.
		Diamandis said the first rocket races, currently slated for October 2006, are expected to see four X-Racer planes compete alongside one another, with the full 10-plane group to follow in 2007.
		The liquid oxygen/kerosene fuel mix is expected to have a burn time of about four minutes, which would force pilots to repeatedly shut down their engines and glide, then restart as needed to surpass opponents, explained Searfoss, who will demonstrate the method during the upcoming prototype demonstration.
	usatoday.com /tech/science/2005-10-03-rocket-racing-league_x.htm?csp=34 (777 words)

	Rockets and History of Space Flight
		His "Tsiolkovsky Formula" established the relationships between rocket speed, the speed of the gas at exit and the mass of the rocket and its propellant.
		He proved, by actual static test, that a rocket would work in a vacuum In 1926 he shot a liquid fuel rocket, in 1929 he shot a scientific payload (barometer and camera) in a rocket flight.
		As the rocket expends fuel, its mass (not including fuel) remains the same, in essence becoming heavier and heavier in relation to the engine’s ability to provide thrust, he thought of stages as a solution.
	www.luna-city.com /space/rockets.html (1397 words)

	X-Planes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As the planes got going, nearing the speed of sound, the air moving around the outside of the aircraft started to go faster than the speed of sound, which created shock waves as this air encountered slower moving air.
		The explosion occurred while the X-2 was attached to its B-50 launch plane, resulting in the death of not only the X-2 pilot but one of the B-50 crew members as well.
		Depending on the mission, the rocket engine provided thrust for the first 80 to 120 sec of flight to accelerate to anywhere between Mach 2 and Mach 6 while climbing as high as 350,000 feet, execute a successful hypersonic reentry through Earth's atmosphere.
	zebu.uoregon.edu /~js/space/lectures/lec05.html (5489 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Rocket Racing League Taps GPSI for Spectator Hand-Held GPS Units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Rocket Racing League (RRL) was founded by Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, founder of the X PRIZE, which inaugurated the age of personal spaceflight, and Granger Whitelaw, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion team partner.
		The Rocket Racing League is an aerospace entertainment organization that combines the competition of racing with the excitement of rocketry.
		Rocket Racing League ™, RRL ™, and X-Racer ™ are trademarks of Rocket Racing.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=100345&tsource=3 (760 words)

	Space Today Online - X Prize experimental private manned space rockets
		The da Vinci Project's Wild Fire rocket was to be lifted from a launch site near Kindersley, Saskatchewan, by a reusable helium balloon to an altitude of 80,000 feet near space from where the rocket engines would fire and propel pilot Brian Feeney on the 62-mi.-high suborbital space ride.
		Their rocket was to be launched on a suborbital flight from the Washington coast out over the Pacific Ocean and then parachute down into the ocean to be retrieved by boat or helicopter.
		The prize was awarded by the X Prize Foundation to the team that designed the first private spaceship that successfully carried the equivalent weight of three human beings to a sub-orbital altitude of 100 km (62.14 miles) on two consecutive flights within two weeks.
	www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/X_Prize.html (2270 words)

	Rocket Racing League Scheduled to start in 2006 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It's a thrilling concept, but I imagine that it would actually be more fun with slower planes that could turn sharp corners, like the aerobatic monoplanes you see looping the loop at airshows.
		Actually, these planes aren't even that fast (very subsonic), they don't have much thrust time (3 minutes on a tank of fuel), and they will be doing fancy vertical climbs, all of which should act to slow down the races to more managable speeds.
		No need for a rocket (rather than an air breathing jet) when flying aerodynamically in an atmosphere, and the results of thrust in atmosphere aren't going to be real useful for designing nozzles for thrusting in vacuum either, different shock wave problems and so forth.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/45607 (994 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The rocket planes will offer a heads-up display for the pilots where they will see a tunnel to help them steer the rocket planes over a vertical 3D race course.
		The rocket planes will be flying in the range of 200 to 300 miles per hour.
		The rocket planes will also have the ability to land to make a quick pit stop and reload on kerosene.
	redherring.com /Article.aspx?a=13824&... (1109 words)

	Chuck Yeager - test pilot
		One of the great unknowns of the time was the so-called "sound barrier." Planes like the British Meteor jets that approached the speed of sound (760MPH at sea level, 660 MPH at 40,000 feet) had encountered severe buffeting of the controls.
		To get the plane airborne, a pair of J34's were installed, but could never power the plane as intended for sustained supersonic flight test.
		One of the planes he tested in 1963 was the NF-104, an F-104 with a rocket over the tailpipe, an airplane which theoretically could climb to over 120,000 feet.
	www.acepilots.com /usaaf_yeager2.html (1855 words)

	ipedia.com: North American X-15 Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The North American X-15 rocket plane was perhaps the most important of the USAF/USN X-series of experimental aircraft.
		Although not as famous as the Bell X-1, the X-15 set numerous speed and altitude records in the early 1960s, reaching the edge of space and bringing back valuable data that was used in the design of later aircraft and spacecraft.
		The original Request for Proposals was issued for the airframe December 30, 1954, and for the rocket engine on February 4, 1955.
	www.ipedia.com /north_american_x_15.html (1061 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I hope I have shown by these calculations that the idea of the rocket plane is not so fantastic as that it appears and that at present it appears just at the border of the practically attainable and is certainly worthwhile working for.
		Further, thrusts were not measured when the rockets were used for flights, and I have reason to believe that we did not always have the high efficiencies, in flight, that we obtained in certain of the static tests.
		The word " rocket " was still in such bad repute in " serious " scientific circles at this time that it was felt advisable by von Karman and myself to follow the precedent of the Air Corps of dropping the use of the word.
	www.olats.org /pionniers/malina/aeronautique/memoir1.shtml (7935 words)

	Countdown for Rocket Planes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Planes powered by cheap reusable rockets could be the future of space transportation.
		This represented a high-water mark in giving airplanelike flexibility and controllability to a rocket-powered craft: an achievement that carries heightened significance since the Space Shuttle Columbia catastrophe raised new questions about the viability of the U.S. government's manned space program.
		But they showed that Xcor Aerospace, the company behind EZ-Rocket, may have the best shot yet at actually giving the world a reusable rocket plane-bringing routine airlinelike operations to the world of rocketry and slashing launch costs to as little as one-tenth those of launching the space shuttle and today's expendable rockets.
	www2.technologyreview.com /articles/03/04/chandler0403.asp (520 words)

	The Space Arena Board
		How many rocket planes flights like that are you able to point to, ones were the vehicle was pushed beyond the failure point to see how it survived, if at all...
		If it was a rocket plane it could not have been and would have made it nearly impossible to control for re-entry.
		BTW even that Soyuz crew that landed 300 miles off course might have died if it was a rocket plane instead of a capsule as its questionable if a rocket plane could have survived the higher G reerntry or forced landing if they were short of the primary runway.
	www.space-frontier.org /cgi-bin/BBS/MoonBase/read/4891 (1268 words)

	‘Rocket racing league’ gets its start - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		In that regard, the EZ-Rocket — a rocket plane powered by liquid oxygen and isopropyl alcohol that takes off and lands like an airplane — provides a better model than, say, the air-launched SpaceShipOne rocket plane that won the X Prize almost exactly a year ago.
		The first rocket racers would be built by XCOR, with a second generation based on an airframe provided by Velocity Aircraft of Sebastian, Fla., the league said in a statement.
		Former NASA astronaut Richard Searfoss is to fly the EZ-Rocket, with the Rocket Racing League logo freshly painted on its tail, next weekend during a rocket exposition in Las Cruces, N.M. He asked journalists to imagine "10 of these fire-breathing dragons" racing in competition.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9572408 (769 words)

	X-15
		While Lindbergh's plane was focused on flying from New York to Paris, the X-15 existed solely to test how man and machine would react to flying higher and faster than ever before.
		The X-15 was powered by a rocket engine, first the "small" engine, and then by the XLR-99, a monster with 57,000 pounds of thrust, almost comparable to the Mercury Redstone rocket that launched Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.
		During this rebuilding, the number 2 plane was re-fitted with jettisonable external fuel tanks, a ramjet engine, and an ablative coating to dissipate the extreme heat built up at hypersonic speeds.
	www.acepilots.com /planes/x15.html (2043 words)

	:: FOX BOOMERANG :: [ Boomerang, Didjeridu, Rhombe, Frisbee, Modele reduit d'avion, Bracelet de montre ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We propose two little planes and a rocket for children.
		You just have to assemble the three feet and the balloon on the tuyere, toblow the balloon, to release the rocket and it rises up to 10 meters in one second.
		The rocket is presented in a box with the three feet, the tuyere and three balloons (decorated with DESTINATION MARS logo).
	www.lmifox.com /pro/fal/index-uk.htm (331 words)

	CiTV - Rocket Planes
		To make the perfect rocket plane, you'll need an empty, rounded 500ml fizzy drinks bottle, like this one.
		The reaction happens really quickly, so making the rocket plane work requires a way of getting the bicarbonate of soda into the bottle of vinegar quickly.
		The plane is made from card and a kitchen roll tube.
	www.citv.co.uk /page.asp?partid=102 (409 words)

	REACTION POWER MODEL AIRPLANES AND GLIDERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		rocket powered model as it is easier to adjust.
		These rocket motors are not toys and, hence, should not be used by unsupervised children.
		Don't EVER fly rocket planes in drought or fire prone conditions and ALWAYS wear eye protection.
	home.earthlink.net /~mcnead (1005 words)

	Dispatches from the Final Frontier: Rocket Racing League
		In fact the EZ Rocket's ceiling is 10,000 feet, according to Aleta Jackson at XCOR.
		They are no faster than a prop plane, and they go no higher than any jet.
		I could understand this race if it operated in thin air that is beyond the range of a jet plane, but as it is, it seems like doing the 50 yard dash in flippers.
	michaelbelfiore.com /blog/2005/10/rocket-racing-league.html (459 words)

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