The Employment of Aerodynamic Forces to Obtain Maximum Range of a Rocket Missile

Abstract

SummaryThe programming of the thrust direction of a rocket missile, to obtain maximum range over a flat earth by the most favourable employment of the aerodynamic forces, is considered for the special case when these forces are small by comparison with the missile weight. The cases of a V.2-type missile, (a) with lift and (b) without lift, are dealt with in detail and numerical results have been computed.