Chapter 20. Rocket and Boost Gliders
If you’ve ever built a model airplane, you’ve probably already thought a bit about how to combine rockets and airplanes. That’s what we’ll do in this chapter. We’ll start out by exploring what’s possible and what’s not with rocket-powered airplanes, then build a classic pop-pod glider. In the next chapter we’ll build a variable-geometry air rocket glider.
Rocket-Powered Aircraft
The obvious approach to using a model rocket motor to power an airplane is to simply replace the airplane motor with a rocket motor. There are several reasons why that’s a bad idea. The first is simply practical. Most model airplanes are designed to fly with a relatively low-powered motor that delivers power for the entire flight. Model ...
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