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.


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    Title :

    The rocket airplane


    Additional title:

    Mech. Eng


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1928


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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