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... The Man Who Built the First Space Gun''' Edward Fitch Northrup published a book called ''Zero to Eighty'' in 1937. He was a respected professor of “ ... mass driver—or electric gun, as he calls it—are ascribed to Pseudoman. By using this literary device, Northrup not only described the machines and experiments he actually had carried out and ...

... two options: making his spacecraft a single enormous powder rocket, or making a compound rocket by combining literally tens of thousands of individual rockets (as the British Interplanetary Society did in ... mathematical groundwork for modern astronautics, said, "Possibly the first seeds of the idea were sown by that great fantastic author Jules Verne—he directed my thinking." Hermann Oberth, "the father of ...

... century, when legend tells (in tantalizingly explicit detail) of a rocket-glider flight supposedly made by one Lagari Hassan Celebi. Image:Lagari.jpg border 200px ''Lagari Hassan Celebi'' The first living ... the imaginary fate of the apocryphal Chinese rocketeer Wan Hoo—an experiment repeated in 1913 by F. Rodman Law, but with less fatal results. Image:9138030 ruggieri.jpg border 200px ''Claude ...

... Robert Goddard filed a patent ( 1,809,271) for an aircraft that would be powered by rocket turbines. Although Goddard never had anything more in mind than a new way of ... ordinary propellers. As the plane climbed to higher altitudes, a rack-and-pinion device operated by the pilot would remove the turbines from the exhaust jets. The plane would then be powered by the rockets alone, where it would then be capable of (according to Popular Science) "high ...

... been Venus then, as well (the rocket was to have been guided to the planet by "polarized magnetic controls"). The Baltimore rocket was fueled with 50 gallons of gasoline with eight ... ship, kept the gasoline burning. Image:Condit_3.jpg border 200px It was estimated by Condit (described by Harry as "a mathematical wizard") that if the ship could get off the ground ... rocket. The inset at the lower left is actually a diagram of the spaceship designed by Hermann Oberth . The rocket took 8 months to build. It was fueled and set up ...

... be sunk deep into granite bedrock and the whole thing reinforced by heavy chain tie-downs. The wheel would be turned by an enormous electric motor. Compressed-air bearings would reduce friction ...

... will not perish with me.” Kibalchich repeatedly asked that his ideas be submitted for consideration by scientists. But instead his project was buried in secret archives. The project itself was published ... deal for the future, particularly if thinking of interplanetary flights. . . . The same idea was developed by Tsiolkovsky after Kibalchich.” Yakov Perelman, an early pioneer in Russian rocketry and astronautics, said that ...

... brother Floyd operated a shop where they repaired cars and aircraft. They had been fascinated by aviation even before the Wright Brother's first flight. Probably no surprise since Elmira was then—-as it still is today—-a hotbed of glider enthusiasm. The Hungerfords were inspired by the successful rocket car experiments of Valier, which were making news around the world. "...we ...

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... Royal Military College of Canada, PO Box 17000, Station Forces Kingston, Ontario Canada, K7K 7B4, Ron.Vincent@rmc.ca '' Abstract Automatic Dependent Surveillance -Broadcast (ADS-B) is an air traffic ... cancelling one another out. An average of 6.2 messages per second are transmitted by each aircraft, with transmissions alternating between top and bottom quarter-wave monopole antennas. Required ...

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