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1 day ago · The 11 in (28 cm) "Tiny Tim" was also used in combat, with two under the belly. [99] Lieutenant Thomas J. Hudner, Jr. , flying an F4U-4 of VF-32 off USS Leyte , was awarded the Medal of Honor for crash landing his Corsair in an attempt to rescue his squadron mate, Ensign Jesse L. Brown , whose aircraft had been forced down by antiaircraft fire near Changjin .
2 days ago · The PAC-3 missile is more maneuverable than previous variants, due to 180 tiny pulse solid propellant rocket motors mounted in the forebody of the missile, called Attitude Control Motors, or ACMs, which serve to fine align the missile trajectory with its target to achieve hit-to-kill capability.
2 days ago · Space Shuttle forward reaction control thrusters. The Reaction Control System (RCS) was composed of 44 small liquid-fueled rocket thrusters and their very sophisticated fly-by-wire flight control system, which utilized computationally intensive digital Kalman filtering.
5 days ago · The rocketry team of Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) made history as they launched the first Filipino-made rocket at the Spaceport America Cup 2024, the largest intercollegiate rocket engineering competition in the world.
4 days ago · Rocket, any of a type of jet-propulsion device carrying either solid or liquid propellants that provide both the fuel and oxidizer required for combustion. The term is commonly applied to any of various vehicles, including firework skyrockets, guided missiles, and launch vehicles used in spaceflight.
An ancient rocket consisted of four parts: arrowhead, arrow barrel, arrow feather, and gunpowder tube. The gunpowder tubes, which were mostly made from bamboo tubes or paperboard, were filled with gunpowder, with one end closed and the other end open.
4 days ago · This blazing fast and easy-to-print rocket prints in less than 2 hours (depending on your settings) and has an STL with supports (print nose-down) and
