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Von Braun rockets on Encyclopedia Astronautica
Pat Flannery wrote:
Scott Lowther wrote: Actaully, no. This one is for real. While Mercado/Miranda have drawn them up... the three-views shown at the top fo this page are the real deal. WHAT! A secret German aircraft project I didn't know about? (much less have a model of?) I thought I knew about them all...if some German designer got a few too many beers in him, and scribbled out something with forward swept wings, rockets, and ramjets on a paper napkin in the bar, I thought it would have been in one of my books; Do you have "Die Deutsche Luftrustung, 1933-1945," Volumes 1 through 4, by Nowarra? Nowarra's a reliable source. His drawings tend to suck, as they're generally second-gen 1960's photocopies from microfilm, but they're the real deal. The Fi-166 is in Volume II, pages 32-33. I don't have a copy of the work, but I've a folder with a bunch of photocopies from it. Here is an interesting thought- Why didn't the Germans ever stick an A5 on the nose of an A4- the way we did with the WAC Corporal in Project Bumper? Because the A-5 was reusable, and launching it atop an A-4 would have made it impossible to recover. And the idea of launching a rocket like that and not recoviring it... why, that's just down-right non-Teutonic. -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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Von Braun rockets on Encyclopedia Astronautica
Scott Lowther wrote:
Because the A-5 was reusable, and launching it atop an A-4 would have made it impossible to recover. And the idea of launching a rocket like that and not recoviring it... why, that's just down-right non-Teutonic. It would have had an advantage over our WAC Corporal though- exhaust vanes and a gyro-stabilization platform to keep it nose upwards- we had to spin stabilize the WAC with some small strap-on engines ala Honest John; and my intention was that the thing _be_ recoverable, the whole mission being a small scale version of the A9/A10 flight plan, with the winged A7 ending up parachuting into the sea after it's return glide. Ignition at altitude was probably the major stumbling block; but if you used the Walter hydrogen peroxide motor on it (such as was used for later A5 flights), you would at least be able to eliminate the fireworks pinwheel up the combustion chamber. Pat |
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