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... 't begin experimenting with rocket gliders until 1932.
The first American to fly a rocket-propelled aircraft did so on June 4, 1931.
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This was a 29-year-old stunt pilot named William G. Swann. In part to promote himself and in part to advertise the Steel Pier ...
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Image:Winkler's_first_rocket_experiments.jpg thumb 200px right '''Winkler's first rocket experiments, cover of Die Rakete for 15 January 1928.'''
Winkler also anonymously ... of the rocket car runs and rocket glider flights, as well as a fanciful drawing by von Roemer (''sic''., although this should have been rendered as (Hans) von Römer) of “the Rocket Car (Rak ...
... form. We also were not going to stick a rocket motor for liquid fuels on a car, railroad car, or glider (i.e. use rockets for stunts).” Furthermore, he added, since the name ... Bernstadt - the Society's first actual experiments.
Image:Fig. 12 1st Mirak.jpg thumb right '''Drawing, first Mirak type rocket motor of the VfR. Artist, unknown.'''
Reports on the Mirak tests
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... received the cold shoulder he had grown to expect.
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As jury-rigged and unlikely looking as the design appears, it is ... and spacecraft being developed today.
Image:Goddard_rocket_plane_depicted_in_Modern_Mechanix_2.jpg border 200px Image:Goddard_rocket_plane_002.jpg.jpg border 200px '' The Goddard rocket plane as depicted in Modern Mechanix (left ...
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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 ... 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 ...
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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 with varnish ... the rocket onto a truck and headed for Florida...where he disappears from history.
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''Modern Mechanix published this illustration of Condit and his rocket. The ...
... Interplanetary Society for Volume 59 59
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'''Year''' - 2006
'''Keywords''' - Buoyancy driven glider, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), wing morphing, planetary exploration
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... not identify 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, ... ROCKET MOTOR FOR CRS ROCKET NO. 1:
Image:CRSRocket1.jpg thumb border right Drawing by Kurt Richard Stehling of his design for CRS Rocket No. 1. drawing dated 13 July 1948.
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... . The second ''Mirak'' was also slightly larger. Pendray incorrectly said it now consisted of a steel jacket with “a lining of ceramic material made especially for the experiment(s) by a ... generated considerably greater thrust. But the rocket exploded about April of 1931. ref 2
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