Rocket Glider patents (RBG,RG,etc.)
Following the Glider patents that Sean listed, here's a collection of Rocket-Glider related patents:
3,157,960 November 24, 1964 John F. Schutz & Vernon P. Estes - Model Rocket Glider (Rear-Engine Boost Glider... Estes Astron Space Plane)
3,408,767 November 5, 1968 Gordon H. Anderson - Toy airplane with folding wings having tabs (precursor to Swing-Wing Boost Gliders)
3,452,471 July 1, 1969 Gene J. Street - Model Boost Glider (FBG with pop pod. Estes Nighthawk, Sky Dart)
3,888,178 June 10, 1975 Walter E. Senoski - Model Rocket Glider (using ducted exhaust to push a piston to release elevator hold-downs. Kopter Pterasaur and Moray)
3,943,441 March 9, 1976 Walter E. Senoski - Model Rocket Glider (ejects nose cone, slides a replacement nose cone forward, and raises elevator. Kopter Jet-i-Son)
There are probably some important patents missing here. Some unrepresented inventions include Front-Engine Boost Gliders, other rocket gliders, scissor-wing boost gliders, regallo boost gliders, sliding-wing rocket gliders, radio-controller rocket gliders.
If anyone out there can fill in any rocketry-related glider patents, could you please list them or where they are cited?
Dwayne Surdu-Miller
SAROS #001
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