German automobile manufacturer, Opel, has been paying attention to possibilities of rocket as means of propulsion and there is talk now of airplanes rocket-propelled and crossing Atlantic in few hours; rocket works on reaction principle, reaction involved being that between rocket chamber and propellant gases; rockets used in Opel machine are quite probably of consecutive type in which several charges of explosive are detonated one after other in same steel chamber.
The rocket airplane
Mech. Eng
Mechanical Engineering ; 50 , n 7
1928
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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