How to Make Bottle Rockets Out of Plastic Bottles
A bottle rocket uses compressed air and water to create a powerful jet of liquid to push it off the ground.
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Rockets: Rockets carried on the interplane struts were used in the First World War for attacking airships and balloons.
Rockets have been used simply to assist the main propulsion in the form of Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) also known as "Rocket Assisted Take Off" (RATO). Not all rocket planes are of the conventional takeoff like "normal" aircraft.
Ordinance: Ammunition, Bombs and Rockets
OS: Observation Squadron
Oscar: Allied code for Nakajima Ki.43 Hayabusa, IJAAF Fighter
OTU: Operational Training Unit
Other pilot, the: Co-pilot
"Out": R/T acknowledgement for end of communication.
Although constant thrust might be a fair approximation for jets or rockets, for piston engines (especially ones with constant-speed props) constant power is a better approximation.
These rockets killed 2,724 people and badly injured 6,000. After the D-Day landings, Allied troops were on mainland Europe and they were able to capture the launch sites and by March, 1945, the attacks came to an end.
P-51s also distinguished themselves against advanced enemy rockets and aircraft. A P-51B/C with high-octane fuel was fast enough to pursue the V-1s launched toward London.
In May 2007, four of us returned for a camp on Pioneer Airport's opening weekend, where we launched rockets, played ultimate Frisbee on the Pioneer runway, and made late-night Taco Bell runs.
JATO - Jet-assisted take-off, utilising solid or liquid fuel rockets to augment the take-off power of an aircraft's engines. See also RATO.
JGSDF - Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
wind tunnel - Tubular structure or passages in which high-speed movements of air or other gases are produced. Objects such as engines, aircraft, airfoils and rockets are placed inside the wind tunnel so researchers can investigate the airflow ...
The branch of meteorology that deals with atmospheric effects on the operation of vehicles in the atmosphere, including winged aircraft, lighter-than-air devices such as dirigibles, rockets, missiles, and projectiles.
BIG BEN
North Sea patrols undertaken by Bomber Command to try to detect the guidance system of the German V2 rockets.
Otrag was a German private venture corporation that was developing a radical and very inexpensive method of satellite launching based on the use of numerous small, cheap rockets bundled together.
 See also: Aircraft, Flight, Aviation, Power, Speed
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