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... ROCKET AIRCRAFT USA''' by Bergaust, E. ''New York, 1961: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 48 pages, $2.50'' Technical data, descriptions and historical reviews are found in this volume on the Xs-1, Xl, X1A, X1E, X2, D558-2, X15 and Dynasoar. The book is well illustrated and contains an introduction to rocket airplane flight and a chronology ...

... , Inc. (RMI) 6000C-4 rocket engine (later designated the XLR-11), that had powered the Bell X-1 rocket research aircraft and later rocket research aircraft. (In 1947, the Bell X-1 became the first aircraft to break the “sound barrier.”) At Bell, Stehling had mainly concentrated upon vibration problems, separation and interaction ignition concerns. In addition, he studied new rocket propellant combinations ...

... NASA, Air Force, and Navy X-15 rocket-powered aircraft program had, during 10 yrs of flight, studied effects of hypersonic flight on aircraft skin friction and thermal expansion, pioneered ... now carrying three-quarters of the world's intercontinental telecommunications traffic." ''(CR, 10/1/73, S18200)'' Dr. Alexander Rocker, European Space Research Organization ( ESRO ) Director General, ...

... X-1, and the X-15 was perhaps the world's first spaceship. But these fabulous machines hardly sprang into being from nothing. They were the products of a long evolution of rocket-propelled aircraft ... experimenting 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 in ...

... operations ''(October 1, 1962-October 1, 1963)'' NASA launched 12 orbital, deep space, and manned space flights, of which 10 were successful, 1 partially successful, and one unsuccessful. The X-15 rocket research aircraft set a ... N. James and Robert J. Parks, Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , and John F. Yardley, McDonnell Aircraft Corp., Cape Canaveral . ''(NASA Releases 63-217,215; Wash. Post, 10/2/63; Webb, Text ...

... Spirit of St. Louis , the Bell X-1 (first supersonic plane), and the North American X-15 . The problem, said the New York Times, was to design a building that "couldn't possibly hold" all it was meant to display; the Saturn V rocket ... was for "Air Transportation"; more than 100 spacecraft and 64 aircraft, nearly 10 times as many as were previously on ...

... ''(1,030.0-km)'' perigee, 106.9-min period, and 89.9° inclination. ''(GSFC SSR, 3/15/68; Pres Rpt 68)'' NASA test pilot William H. Dana flew X-15 No. 1 rocket research air­craft to 104,500-ft altitude and 2,898 mph ''(mach 4.36)'' from Edwards AFB to check out aircraft's electrical systems and ... 1969. Re­ductions included cut from $48.3 million to $11.7 million for nuclear rocket program Advanced Research and Technology Subcommittee had recommended cut of entire $48.3 million , $36 ...

... Program; Also Announces No SLI Funding for X-33 or X-34 ,” news release 01-3 1, 1 March 2001; Warren E. Leary, “NASA Ends Project on Rocket Meant To Replace Space Shuttle ,” New York Times, 2 March 2001; Kathy Sawyer, “NASA Kills $1.3 Billion Space Plane Project,” Washington Post, 2 March 2001; Los Angeles Times, “NASA Ends X ...

... use of the phrase. Later he would become chief test engineer for America's preeminent rocket manufacturer, Thiokol . In this book, his first about space in nearly forty years, Alfred Zaehringer ... X-1 to the hypersonic scramjet X-43 . From the Apollo moon landings to President George W Bush's proposals for building lunar bases and sending humans to Mars. It's all just "Rocket ...

... powder car was something like an increase in rank for the rocket: it became before the eyes, ears of The rocket car on the racetrack and - nose of the world as the ... for the better carrying capacity of denser sub-air layers, so that the powder-powered aircraft will be able to get by with normal wings even in the thin stratosphere. So ... times it would like to be taken on its back by the largest existing transatlantic rocket aircraft - it would like to detach itself from its carrier at the highest point of the ...

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