Destination's JourneyAug 20, 2025
The Bisnovat 5 was a Soviet experimental research aircraft developed in the late 1940s to explore the challenges of supersonic flight. Due to slow progress, the programme was abandoned and the Bisnovat 5 was cancelled without the aircraft making a single powered flight https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/bisnovat-5-russian-supersonic-research-aircraft/ #aeroplane #Aircraft #airplane #aviation #Bisnovat #researchaircraft #rocketplane #Bisnovat5
Destination's JourneyAug 13, 2025
The Mitsubishi J8M Shūsui, was a Japanese World War II rocket-powered interceptor closely base on the Messerschmitt Me 163 https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/mitsubishi-j8m-shusui/ #aviation #MitsubishiJ8M #aeroplane #airplane #rocketfighter #rocketplane #WW2
RTNNov 13, 2024

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World's first aerospike rocket test mid-flight successful
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"In a feat that can only be described as legendary, and after many months and a catastrophic setback, Polaris Spaceplanes has finally accomplished something that's never been done before: lit the fuse of an aerospike rocket in flight."

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/worlds-first-successful-aerospike-rocket-flight-test/

8.11.2024

#Aerospike #AS1 #Ostsee #PolarisSpaceplanes #MIRA #Raketenflugzeug #Raumfahrt #rocketplane #SpaceFlight

World's first aerospike rocket test mid-flight successful

In a feat that can only be described as legendary, and after many months and a catastrophic setback, Polaris Spaceplanes has finally accomplished something that's never been done before: lit the fuse of an aerospike rocket in flight.

New Atlas
Destination's JourneyAug 21, 2023
https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/bachem-ba-349-natter/ #BachemBa349 #BachemBa349Natter #Ba349Natter #Natter #RocketFighter #fighter #XPlane #plane #RocketPlane #aeroplane #airplane #aviation #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #WWII
Bachem Ba-349 Natter - Destination's Journey

Photographs of the Bachem rocket powered manned interceptor of the World War Two German Luftwaffe. Construction, Test Lanches and prototypes

Destination's Journey
Jonathan WrightJun 29, 2023

Virgin Galactic: Sir Richard Branson's rocket plane enters commercial service

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66045177

Anything to make money, and a name for himself, and to pump more climate-changing fossil-fuels into the atmosphere.

I trust this isn't an accident waiting to happen, or a project that loses a collosal amount of money.

After all, other than a once in a life-time experience, what's the point of it?

#RichardBranson #RocketPlane #Science #SpaceTravel #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

Virgin Galactic: Sir Richard Branson's rocket plane enters commercial service

It's taken nearly 20 years but Sir Richard Branson is finally taking paying passengers to space.

BBC News