---- On 9/3/2014 6:21 PM, ------- wrote:
In the documentary Secrets of War, one of the talking heads claims the shape was based on the aerodynamic design of the german 7.92mm bullet with vanes added



On Wednesday, !!!! ---- 14 May 1997 08:00:00 UTC+1 ----- !!! , Mike Evert wrote:
I was wondering about the tapered cigar-like shape
of the V2 rocket. It seems also that such a shape
was prominent in 1950's or earlier illustrations of
rockets.


Wow, the latency of this question to response actually exceeds in real
time the lifetime of the V2 as a weapon of war!

Is gmdean another extra-terrestrial with a gmail account?

heh heh....

Dave