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... and John Shesta ROCKET RANGE FINDERS 12 - Roy Healy , James Glazebrook THE AMERICAN ROCKET SOCIETY 13 - Major R. Randolph, Alfred Africano REVIEWS OF TECHNICAL ARTICLES 14 - Roy Healy , James Glazebrook ROCKET DEMONSTRATION AT NEW ... : Long Range Rockets Now in Use 4 - Laurence E. Manning Rockets and Pseudo-Rockets: Some Interesting Comments on Airstream Engines 8 - Jet Assisted Takeoff: Army and Navy Using Jet Boosters 11 - American Rocket Society News ...

... hold the record for liquid-fuel rockets (so far as he knew). They ascended about two miles (3.2 km) and covered, once, a distance (range) of three miles (4.8 km ... “shortly after.” To complicate matters, Ordway and Sharpe say that in January 1934 the Raketenflugplatz “rocket range reverted to the use for which it had been established in World War I - a ... . Then, in the ''Raketenflug'' Nr. 2 for March 1932, Nebel ran the article “Powder Rockets – Liquid Propellant Rockets, A Comparison,” that quite rightly demonstrated far superior exhaust velocities of liquid propellants over ...

... the sun shines directly down.”'' This long extract presents many solid insights into Leitch’s range of knowledge. His description of the lunar environment was uncannily accurate. He had evidently ... may bring interesting news of regions hitherto unexplored.” '' ref 36 '' The First Scientific Concept of Rockets for Space Travel by Robert Godwin Part 4 '''Click here for Part 4''' The First ...

... well decried Nebel's showmanship. Ley says further that Nebel's “Confidential Memo on Long-Range Rocket Artillery” sent to Becker was wholly inadequate. (Ley called it “the worst nonsense that was ... of the rocket, especially the liquid-propellant type, as a long-range weapon. It is usually inferred in the literature that this interest was spurred by the fact that the rocket was not ...

... altitude of nearly 60 miles on 3 October 1942, although operationally the rocket would have only been launched for maximum range, not altitude. On the other point, up to June 1948, the ... of World War II. Although now taken for granted, rocket “launch sites” by that time were also limited to primitive artillery firing ranges and the like, while our knowledge of the upper ... country in the late 1920s. He well knew of the rocket stunts---including rocket cars and rocket-propelled gilders (utilizing solid-propellant gunpowder rockets of the day)--of the automobile magnate and “sportsman” Fritz ...

... the atmosphere, we can conceive of, would be one on the principle of the rocket. The rocket rises in the air, not from the resistance offered by the atmosphere to its fiery ... the low trajectory of the ball, must acquire a fatal precision and range.”'' His last word is critical, “range”. From this we can see that he understood that a vacuum removes this ... the nozzle. As the rocket ascends, this pressure declines steadily until the rocket reaches space. Evidence of this can be seen during any major rocket launch; as the rocket gets higher the plume of ...

... and other media of the day. Put another way, technologically-speaking these rocket car, rocket airplane (and later rocket railroad and even rocket ice-sled) stunts - some by Valier - had no connection whatsoever to ... he explained the technical flaws in these concepts and why they were “impossible.” These methods ranged from the fictional giant cannon suggested by Jules Verne in his famous novel ''From ...

... this introductory note into seven parts, as follows: 1. Comments on a Chemical Rocket versus a Nuclear Rocket Space Program: The Static versus the Dynamic 2. General Comments on Nuclear Rocketry 3 ... “The Feasibility of Nuclear-Powered Long Range Ballistic Missiles,” issued in March 1955. Here the Los Alamos National Laboratory argued a ground launch of a nuclear rocket lacked a payload advantage, but ...

... , that he also proved mathematically, especially through what is called the “Tsiolkovsky rocket equation,” or “Tsiolkovsky equation,” or “ideal rocket equation,” that describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle ... itself, much less the rocket towards its accomplishment. Leitch, who was also a clergyman, was indeed, an independent (“quite atypical,” as Godwin phrases it) and a wide-ranging thinker who had been ...

... ; used tablecloths, curtains, wall coverings and carpets; used tarpaulins, 1 typewriter table; 1 kitchen range, 1 bath, 1 bathwater heater, 2 bedsteads with mattress and bedding, 1 blueprint maker, ... VfR, (''Mitteilungen'', 1 November 1930, p. 3; Pendray, “The German Rockets,” p. 5; Ley, ''Rockets, Missiles'', p. 139; Ley, “The End of the Rocket Society (– Part 1),” p. 75. note 14 < ...

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