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Curious question to the group.
On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:24:47 GMT, "William R Thompson"
wrote: "Gene S. Park" wrote: You may find that it was the Germans who developed rocket assisted take off especially when it meant getting a fully loaded Me 321s and 323s in the air. The Germans developed the first rocket-powered airplanes in 1929. They were commercially-available gliders with black-powder rockets for propulsion. See http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo.../Opel-RAK.html for details. --Bill Thompson About the same time, there were also some German rocket powered boat experiments. But hundreds of years before, the Chinese built kite like birds powered by rockets. One Lord, often named as Wan Hu is recorded as trying to launch himself with rockets with fatal results. Cheers, Bob |
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