What is a Rocket Plane?
A Rocket Plane is powered via solid rocket boosters. Typical rockets are made for launching vertically, but there isnt enough danger involved with vertical liftoffs. Hence, Rocket Plane. Lets talk a little about the physics of these things and what to keep in mind when designing your rocket plane. What do I need to know before building my own Rocket Plane? • Gliders are only under the forces of gravity and the lift of their wings once thrown. They make lousy rocketplanes. Continuous thrust causes them to loop unless you unbalance the plane by placing ballast at the nose (or on a stick protruding from the nose). Once the thrust stops, you have an unaerodynamic hunk of lead falling from the sky. • Silly, non-technical designs (like the one shown) will fly, given enough thrust. Estes rockets provide ample thrust. • Balance is all-important. Keep engines along the fuselage or exactly balanced on wingtips so that the center of gravity (COG) is in the front of the wing dead in the middle of
