rocket

Hi all, I'm trying to understand how control input mixing works for rockets that use a cruciform fin layout (4 fins at 90° angles). Specifically: How are the usual aircraft-style control commands (aileron, elevator, rudder or roll/pitch/yaw) mapped or mixed into the 4 fin deflections? Are...

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Years ago, when NASA started sharing its archives online, I spent a lot of time indexing the photos of the various models tested in wind tunnels. I only saved a few of them, thinking that the images were online to stay... only to discover later on that none of the links I had saved to the...

This was unexpected. Probably also what the guy who found the can said. The article is not behind a paywall at the moment, but let me know if it becomes inaccessible. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/nyregion/willy-ley-rocket-ashes.html

Hello, Described in both Naval Fighters #75: Grumman F7F Tigercat and F7F Tigercat in Action is a zero-length launch rack for launching the 11.75" Tiny Tim rocket without need for a drop beforehand, developed at NOTS China Lake and intended for the F7F. Evidently it seems it's only for the...

https://spacenews.com/isar-aerospace-completes-testing-of-first-spectrum-rocket/

Henschel GT 1200 By the beginning of 1937, Dr Lorenz of Technisches Amt (Luftwaffe’s Technical Office) was sponsoring the Walter HWK RI-203 rocket engine that promised enormous power for its weight. This engine used compressed air to force a weak concentration of mono-propellant hydrogen...

The GB 3/L was a glide bomb project based on the aerodynamic solutions developed for the Lippisch P.12 by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug. Designed in July 1944 to compete against the antiship missile Henschel Hs 293D, it could transport a warhead of 250 kg at 800 km/h and reach...

Hello, Recently I got a hold of Weird Wings of WW1 and in it there's mentions of German copies of the Le Prieur rocket system being tested at Doberitz, I tried looking more into this but I couldn't find anything. Anyone has any more input? Pictures of the system being mounted on Halberstadt...

Hi, from the CIA archive (link) a detailed report about the Verticon project, a photo recce payload to be used with Aerobee rockets.

Wandered into this from another board https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_unmanned_aerial_vehicles_of_World_War_I Archibald Low stated "in 1917 the Experimental Works designed an electrically steered rocket... Rocket experiments were conducted under my own patents with the help of Cdr...

To blastoff Monday hoping. http://www.space.com/14538-european-vega-rocket-maiden-launch.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Hi, here is the Boulton & Paul P-122,it was a rocket-propelled interceptor, powered by an AS Screamer,it had a twin-boom configuration. http://www.unicraft.biz/

Sources regarding esp. the M.148T requirement for carrier-based strike aircraft, which then resulted in the Blackburn Buccaneer, mention as one of the aircraft's weapons unguided rockets referred to as the OR.1099, where the "OR" abbreviation stands, as I understand, for 'operational...

Not long ago I learned about the Fliegerfaust or Luftfaust WWII German anti-aircraft multi-barreled rocket launchers, which piqued my curiosity. Does anyone know of any other prototypes or projects for unguided anti-aircraft weapons, not tradional anti-aircraft guns but other novel attempts...

I found in Robert L. Forward novel "Saturn Rukh" this Synthetic Fuel: metastabil Helium NHe64* know someone about this is a real proposal or is this pure Sci-Fi ? (Forward had Habit to put proposals in his novels) the idea of metastable helium is this: Three helium atoms are aligned in a...

I have read conflicting information concerning the Soviet N1 rocket. Some sources say that the 30 engine design of the first stage was fatally flawed and the complex piping was damaged during rail transport to Baikonur. But then another source says that Nikolai Kuznetsov continued to work to...

Germans fielded a number of airborne AT rockets in the winter of 1944/45. There were Panzerschreck 1 and 2 and Panzerblitz 1 and 2, while Panzerblitz 3 and 4 were in development. Sadly, there's an incredible mess in available books as far as details of these rockets are concerned - e.g. I...

Hi everybody I am searching more informations about the german Project "Ursel". It should be a anti-destroyer rocket for the XXI submarines ! This is the only drawing I have found http://www.whq-forum.de/invisionboard/lofiversion/index.php/t21854.html Sorry for this strange source ! Many...