(Chuck Yeager went supersonic on 14 October 1947 in the rocket powered Bell X-1, the first aircraft to sustain supersonic speeds in level flight, making it the first "true" supersonic aircraft).

PSS is all about building and flying scale model gliders of full-sized jet, rocket or piston powered aircraft.

He was transferred to Ergänzungsstaffel (Training/Supplement Squadron) of Jagdgeschwader 400 (JG 400-400th Fighter Wing) for conversion training to the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket powered aircraft.

The same advantage of CJ-1 AShM has over C-801 also holds in comparison to the turbojet powered C-802, and additionally, the solid rocket powered CJ-1 has another great advantage in that it is much easier and cheaper to maintain.

The Arizona power pile had been installed in one of the largest of the Antipodes rockets, the rocket powered with isotopic fuel created in the power pile itself, and the whole thing was placed in an orbit around the Earth.

It was originally designed as a rocket powered aircraft but later used turbojets.

On the field, Edison Brito, small and compact, had risen straight up from the ruck as if rocket powered, caught the ball on his forehead, nodded it down to his chest, and before he touched ground again passed it off with a sharp shrug of his right shoulder.

At a height of 130 km, the vehicle would fire an expendable rocket powered upper stage which would reach orbital speed and place its satellite payload into orbit.