Rick Jones wrote:


I guess then that the real risk was then to the trees and shrubs on
either side of the tracks. Either you start a forrest fire on launch,
or you have "open" enough tracks that some fighter jock in a
P-47/P-51/Typhoon/whatnot spots you, swoops-in and ruins your whole
day?

That first picture seems to show some pretty broad "open space" on the
far side of the rail car

A V-2 didn't exactly "zip" off the pad did it?


They started a lot of fires launching V-2s; one of the popular ways of
hiding them during erection and fueling was to pull the tops of tall fir
trees together with ropes over the top of the missile to hide it in a
forest clearing, then snap them open just before launch.

Pat