1. A Magnum 501 rocket powered parachute system is under development for the aircraft. 2. In 1927, the BPD Test Centre started to experiment on the first rockets powered by chemical powder. 3. The altitude, about 18 miles ( 29 kilometers ), was considered a record for a non-rocket powered aircraft. 4. Unlike a rocket powered craft, a scramjet-propelled vehicle does not have to carry supplies of both fuel and oxygen. 5. The Messerschmitt Me 163 " Komet " ( Comet ) interceptor was both rocket powered and of tailless configuration. 6. It was the first US warship to be damaged or sunk by the rocket powered kamikazi Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka. 7. He became fascinated with space travel at 16, building a crude, rickety rocket powered by gunpowder and airplane glue. 8. Five astronauts pilot the nuclear thermal rocket powered " Pegasus " spacecraft on a tour of the solar system. 9. Haas was a three-stage orbital rocket powered by hybrid engines using a bitumen based fuel and hydrogen peroxide as oxydizer. 10. His career encompassed the design and development of flying boats before the Second World War to rocket powered fighters after.
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