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...supposed to determine the feasibility of nuclear rockets. Though AEC has never defined just what it considers "feasible," Dr. Schreiber has hinted that a satisfactory nuclear rocket must be a single-stage vehicle with enough thrust to escape from the earth with 15% of its take-off weight as payload. Now Kiwi-A has apparently demonstrated that this kind of power is feasible...
Airplanes are fast, but they use a lot of power to keep a payload in the air. Surface ships carry a lot of cargo, but water resistance keeps them slow. Last week Britain's Saunders-Roe, Ltd. (aircraft) demonstrated a hybrid craft that is neither ship nor airplane, but has some of the advantages of both. Called the Hovercraft, it moves a little way above the surface of land or water, supported on a nearly frictionless cushion...
...next Hovercraft to be built, said Chief Designer Richard Stanton-Jones, will weigh 40 tons and carry 80 passengers at 100 m.p.h. Large Hovercraft should need only one-quarter the horsepower required by airplanes of comparable weight, and be able to carry twice the payload. They can start their voyages on land, require only a reasonably level shore...
...hydrogen's virtues more than make up for its faults. When it is burned with liquid oxygen, the combination gives 40% more thrust than an equal amount of kerosene and oxygen. This improvement has a disproportionate effect on a rocket's efficiency, would more than double its payload...
Henry M. Spotnitz '62 (beaming proudly at left with the nose cone) claimed that he was "pleased with the results, but everything only went according to plans." The builder and owner of the rocket, as well as head of the recovery team, Spotnitz refused to reveal the instrument payload, although he admitted that the cone was made of a "metallic ceramic material...