A9/A10 & Antipodal Bomber article

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:27:41 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:

Coincidentally, I just finished building a 1/72 scale model of the
manned A9/A10 a few days back.

Have any pictures of it? How big is that in 1/72?

I was wondering how the pilot got home. Apparently, after dropping his one ton
bomb, he flew back using turbojets. Not nearly as romantic as Japan's Ohka.

Found this at-
http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v1/v1n1/ww2space.htm

"The most ambitious and, perhaps, delusional of the Nazi space schemes was a 1945
project for an orbital space station armed with a death ray, a huge space mirror.
In 1929, Herman Oberth had proposed a potentially practical space station that
served as the basis for the later project. But the 1945 station was to be one giant
mirror fabricated entirely from metallic sodium. Over-sized V2 rockets were to
carry the thing to its 1500-mile orbit in prefabricated sections. Here, Nazi
spacemen would assemble it , using electricity provided by a system of solar-fired
boilers and steam-driven dynamos. Breathable oxygen would come from pumpkins grown
under flourescent [sic] light. When they were finished, the crew would steer the
station over target nations, focus the sun's rays, and burn cities and boil
reservoirs"

Of course, we resourceful Yanks would have used that boiling water to fuel steam
driven retaliatory ICBMs

Dale