And If Rockets Had Wings...

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Class of 2005 Proteus 1 team members: Erik Palitsch James Rollo Joshua Khoury Matthew Delehanty Christopher Wilkins Katie Lunser and Samuel Lee. Photo by Kris Qua
Class of 2005 Proteus 1 team members: Erik Palitsch, James Rollo, Joshua Khoury, Matthew Delehanty, Christopher Wilkins, Katie Lunser, and Samuel Lee. Photo by Kris Qua

What goes up like a rocket, changes into a plane, then glides under controlled flight? For Christopher Wilkins ’05, Erik Palitsch ’05, Samuel Lee ’05, James Rollo ’05, and a team of Rensselaer students, it’s their senior capstone project. It’s called a morphing rocket — a rocket that changes inflight to an aircraft with wings and control surfaces to facilitate directed flight.


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