The Russians didn't begin experimenting with rocket gliders until 1932. The first American to fly a rocket-propelled aircraft did so on June 4, 1931.

Typically a rocket-powered glider consumes fuel at a rapid rate, so most glide in for a landing. Examples include the German Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor seen above, as well as the ...

It’s called the Towed Glider Air-Launch System (TGALS) and it’s designed to launch orbital rockets from high altitude at a fraction of the cost of current methods. So instead of trying to dead ...

Humanitarian Aid Winged Kit (HAWK) Humanitarian Aid Winged Kit (HAWK) Project Topic: Rocket Boosted Glider Payload Delivery System Description: The H.A.W.K. aims to develop a hybrid rocket glider ...

More important, the glider’s lack of in-plane human operators and low weight mean rocket boosters can be fired from the plane with sharply reduced blast concerns.

The rocket also had a core stage that would stay attached to the spacecraft for the duration of the trip to Mars, making the entire assembly look like some kind of arrow shot into the heavens.

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NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center Towed Glider Air-Launch Concept would use a glider that would be towed to an altitude of 40,000 feet by a large transport aircraft such as a 747. A rocket ...

Flying Wings, Rockets, Gliders: Air Force Envisions Its Next Cargo Workhorses Pentagon wants fleet able to fly vast distances in support of U.S. forces in Pacific under policy to deter China ...

NASA has announced that it has successfully tested a prototype of a glider that could help rockets launch from unmanned aircraft. This could significantly reduce the costs associated with ...

A Pentagon-designed hypersonic glider launched on a new Minotaur rocket Thursday, but went silent just after separating from its booster, officials said.