Aeronautics and astronautics – Composite aircraft
Patent
1994-10-06
1996-04-16
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Composite aircraft
244 63, 244172, 102348, 102378, 102351, 446 52, 446 56, 446 63, B64C 3702, A63H 2726
Patent
active
055074510
ABSTRACT:
A shuttle launch system for a model rocket which includes a model rocket engine having a propellant charge for propelling the model rocket in a first direction and an ejection charge for ejecting matter in a second direction generally opposite the first direction consists of a booster rocket having a longitudinally extended tube with a peripheral sidewall, an inner chamber and top and bottom ends and an engine-receiving chamber adjacent the bottom end of the tube. A shuttle glider support structure is mounted on the booster rocket for releasably supporting a shuttle glider thereon. A fluid passage extends between the inner chamber of the booster rocket and the shuttle glider support structure such that a portion of gas within the inner chamber is redirected from the inner chamber through the fluid passage and out of the shuttle glider support structure. The shuttle launch system further includes a shuttle glider having a fuselage and at least one wing, the shuttle glider removably mounted on the shuttle glider support structure on the booster rocket. Finally, the shuttle glider is separated from the booster rocket upon ejection of matter from the ejection charge of a model rocket engine held within the engine receiving chamber, the ejected matter compressing gas within the inner chamber, a portion of that gas being redirected from the inner chamber through the fluid passage and outward from the shuttle glider support structure thereby propelling the shuttle glider outward from the booster rocket.
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