Fowlkes, Gisele (2012) Rocket powered aircrafts. Orange Apple, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132328971
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A recket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines. Rocket planes can achieve much higher speeds than similarly-sized jet aircraft, but typically for at most a few minutes of powered operation, followed by a glide. Unhindered by the need for oxygen from the atmosphere they are suitable for very high altitude flight. They are also capable of delivering much higher acceleration and shorter takeoffs. Rockets have been used simply to assist the main propulsion in the form of Jet Assisted Take Off (ATO) also known as "Rocket Assisted Take Off" (RATO). Not all rocket planes are of the conventional takeoff like "normal" aircraft. Some types have been air launched from another plane, while other types have taken off vertically-nose in the air and tail to the ground ("tail-sitters"). It is also possible, that rocket planes launch vertically without changing their orientation. Because of the heavy propellant use and the various practical difficulties of operating rockets, the majority of rocket plans have been built for experimental use, as interceptor fighters and space aircraft. The first rocket-powered aircraft was the Lippisch Ente, flown in 1928. The Russian Bereznyak - Isayev Bl - 1 flew in 1942. The Heinkel He 176 was the world's first aircraft to be propelled solely by a liquid fallen rocket , making its first powered flight on 20 June 1939 with Erich Warsitz at the controls The antipedal bomber was planned by the Germans late in WWII, however later calculations showed that it would not have worked and would have been destroyed during reentry.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2022 08:24 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2022 08:24 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3602 |
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