rocket-pilot

Updated: July 13, 2026

Handling the two-wheeled vehicle was no particular problem; although he had never ridden on anything of the sort before, it was child's play compared to controlling a Hundredth Century strato-rocket, and Hradzka was a skilled rocket-pilot. Several times he passed vehicles on the road the passenger vehicles with enclosed cabins, and cargo-vehicles piled high with farm produce.

H. Beam Piper - Flight From Tomorrow

Verkan Vall said good-by to the rocket-pilot and took his seat beside the pilot of the aircab; the latter lifted his vehicle above the building level and then set it down on the landing-stage of the Paratime Police Building in a long, side-swooping glide.

H. Beam Piper - Police Operation