Ascent

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Clearing the atmosphere to accelerate to orbit, taken around 30km altitude. The Delta-Glider has an incredibly low mass ratio (amount of fuel), no possible chemical combustion rocket with this little fuel would be able to get anywhere near orbital velocity; the Delta-Glider is powered by two nuclear (Fusion?) engines, producing enough thrust to accelerate at 1.5G's.

Ammonium Perchlorate Rockets (like the shuttle SRB's) burn so brightly it hurts your eyes to look at them. They're very, very loud from 7 miles away.
Fusion engines would be much brighter and louder, the heat of the exhaust would be in the millions of degrees, making them far more fuel-efficient engines, giving the Delta-Glider enough Delta-Vee (Change in speed) to go to the moon, or to reach orbit and make drastic orbital adjustments.

-Screenshot taken by me in Martin Schweiger's Freeware "Orbiter" spaceflight simulator.
Edited extensively by me.
Orbiter: The Thinking Being's Simulator.
www.orbitersim.com