Rockair

Rockair was designed for the aircraft start sounding rocket, developed by the Office of Naval Research and the University of Maryland. The missile was tested in 1955. She had a peak altitude of 50 km, a takeoff thrust of 3.00 kN, a diameter of 0.07 m and a length of 1.20 m. With the type of missile launch five attempts have been made by a McDonnell F2H Banshee aircraft in the Navy before Wallops Iceland in 1955, only one of which was successful. Basis for the test was the Naval Aviation Ordnance Test Station ( NAOTS ) in Chincoteague, Virginia.