Boost Glider (Misc)
Estes's technical report Boost Gliders (TR-4) by Thomas E. Beach provides the following definition of a boost glider:
A boost glider is a model rocket that ascends vertically into the air by rocket power, then part or all of the model returns as a glider supported by aerodynamic lifting surfaces. During boost phase the boost glider is a stable, ballistic vehicle just like any model rocket; it must not ascend in a shallow climb using lift from the wings. Near peak altitude the boost glider transitions from boost configuration into glide configuration.
A simplier description is that a boost glider goes up like a rocket. Then all or part of the rocket glides to earth like an unpowered airplane.
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