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... rocketed into the skies in the 1930s. Rocket flight has its roots in the seventeenth century, when legend tells (in tantalizingly explicit detail) of a rocket-glider flight supposedly made by ... with rocket gliders until 1932. The first American to fly a rocket-propelled aircraft did so on June 4, 1931. Image:Steel pier rocket glider.jpg border 200px Image:Steel pier rocket glider ...

... Daniel Hungerford was a glider pilot, inventor, lecturer and promoter of some pretty interesting ideas, such as the one he and his brother had of flying a rocket to the moon. He ... 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 ...

... 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 propelling ... rocket engines would power a pair of turbines. These would in turn drive a pair of ordinary propellers. As the plane climbed to higher altitudes, a rack-and-pinion device operated by ... 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 speed ...

... 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 their original moon rocket design of 1939). Either ... , after several pages of mathematics, was that what was needed was a lead-filled tungsten-steel projectile 21.5 feet long and 3.5 feet wide. Valier's gun would, like ...

... 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 steel pipes for engines. The several layers of sailcloth that covered the rocket were impregnated ...

... of heavy steel---more like the flywheel of an engine than an amusement park ride. Its foundations would 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 ...

... moon and back. The vehicle itself is a rocket. In a sense it is a three stage rocket in which the upper two are rocket-powered and the first stage is the mass ... a rocket for the entire trip. There are no fuels in use at his time, he says, that would permit a realistic mass-ratio. “The moon will never be reached by a human being in a car propelled by rockets only, unless the dream of some scientists is realized whereby we will ...

... to say, Kibalchich was not the first to suggest that a vehicle could be propelled by rocket propulsion. The Spanish inventor Frederico Gomez Arias did so in 1872, as did the Englishmen ... Edwards in 1869. (Amazingly, the latter’s design was for a delta-winged rocket plane ) Nevertheless, Kibalchich’s rocket ship did have some unique features, most notably that of having its engine ...

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... which one) fly on the Wasserkuppe, a well known mountain in Germany where glider flights were often made. Then in 1930, he and his family emigrated to Canada ... Rockets---Flight by Rocket From Earth to Planets Is a Probability,” “McGill Daily” (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), Vol. XXXIV, 29 January 1945, pp. 1, 4. “Mathematicians Discuss Rockets---Problem of Travel to Planets Outlined by ...

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