Starting with the basics of rocket propulsion, readers will start out making rockets made from stuff lying around the house, and then move on up to air-, water-, and solid propellant-powered rockets
Let's fly some rockets! -- Model rocketry today -- Juno: A solid propellant rocket -- Launch pads -- Flight operations -- Compressed air rockets -- Rocket stability -- How high did it go? -- Payloads -- Selecting parachutes and streamers -- Water rockets -- Parachute recovery of a water rocket -- Subsonic aerodynamics -- How high will it go? -- Minimum-diameter rockets -- Mini-rockets -- Multistage rockets -- Cluster rockets -- Helicopter recovery -- Rocket and boost gliders -- Air rocket glider -- Rocket clubs and contests -- Onward and upward
Make: rockets : down-to-earth-rocket-science
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2014
XIV, 504 S
zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst
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RVK: | ZO 8150 | |
BKL: | 55.60 Raumfahrttechnik / 50.97 Technisches Spielzeug, Modellbau | |
DDC: | 621.43560228 |
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