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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dunkelgrun:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JG301_nils:
Did you notice the size of that thing... Looks like a camouflaged Saturn V <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Not surprising; the Saturn V was a direct descendant of the V2. Werner von Braun etc.
Cheers! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Not surprising; the V2 was a direct descendant of the Goddard's rockets etc.
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/servic...rd/goddard.htm
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TAGERT.:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dunkelgrun:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JG301_nils:
Did you notice the size of that thing... Looks like a camouflaged Saturn V <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Not surprising; the Saturn V was a direct descendant of the V2. Werner von Braun etc.
Cheers! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Not surprising; the V2 was a direct descendant of the Goddard's rockets etc.
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/servic...rd/goddard.htm <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Is he a direct ancestor of Hitler? He has that funny mustache...
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MOhz:
Is he a direct ancestor of Hitler? He has that funny mustache... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Ah? first things first, he does not have a hitler mustache.. Secondly you do understand that the shape of a mustache is due to shaving.. and NOT due to a genetic trait? They teach that in high school these days dont they?
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for people who want destroy the V-2 in a low level strafing run:
Ethyl Alcohol (75%): 8179 lb, 3710 kg
Liquid-oxygen: 10802 lb, 4900 kg
Warhead: 1627 lb of explosives, 738 kg
should make a "nice" explosion
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I do kinda hope that we get the infamous black and white paint scheme.
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I did it in Aces of aces.Does that count?
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Goddard was a man ahead of his time, I visited the Goddard musuem and was astounded at what he made with what little recognition and funding he received at the time.
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Runners up get a months supply of these.
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Goddard???..Come on guys, he was so far off track he wasn't even close.While Germans were firing rockets into space,Goddard was playing with big bottle rockets.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by stoopidlimey:
Goddard???..Come on guys, he was so far off track he wasn't even close.While Germans were firing rockets into space,Goddard was playing with big bottle rockets. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Read and learn:
"In 1914, Goddard received two U.S. patents. One was for a rocket using liquid fuel. The other was for a two or three stage rocket using solid fuel. At his own expense, he began to make systematic studies about propulsion provided by various types of gunpowder. His classic document was a study that he wrote in 1916 requesting funds of the Smithsonian Institution so that he could continue his research. This was later published along with his subsequent research and Navy work in a Smithsonian Miscellaneous Publication No. 2540 (January 1920). It was entitled "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes." In this treatise, he detailed his search for methods of raising weather recording instruments higher than sounding balloons. In this search, as he related, he developed the mathematical theories of rocket propulsion.
Towards the end of his 1920 report, Goddard outlined the possibility of a rocket reaching the moon and exploding a load of flash powder there to mark its arrival. The bulk of his scientific report to the Smithsonian was a dry explanation of how he used the $5000 grant in his research. Yet, the press picked up Goddard' s scientific proposal about a rocket flight to the moon and erected a journalistic controversy concerning the feasibility of such a thing. Much ridicule came Goddard's way. And he reached firm convictions about the virtues of the press corps which he held for the rest of his life. Yet, several score of the 1750 copies of the 1920 Smithsonian report reached Europe. The German Rocket Society was formed in 1927, and the German Army began its rocket program in 1931. Goddard's greatest engineering contributions were made during his work in the 1920's and 1930's (see list of historic firsts). He received a total of $10,000 from the Smithsonian by 1927, and through the personal efforts of Charles A. Lindbergh, he subsequently received financial support from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation. Progress on all of his work was published in "Liquid Propellant Rocket Development," which was published by the Smithsonian in 1936.
Goddard's work largely anticipated in technical detail the later German V-2 missiles, including gyroscopic control, steering by means of vanes in the jet stream of the rocket motor, gimbalsteering, power-driven fuel pumps and other devices. His rocket flight in 1929 carried the first scientific payload, a barometer, and a camera. Goddard developed and demonstrated the basic idea of the "bazooka" two days before the Armistice in 1918 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. His launching platform was a music rack. Dr. Clarence N. Hickman, a young Ph.D. from Clark University, worked with Goddard in 1918 provided continuity to the research that produced the World War II bazooka. In World War II, Goddard again offered his services and was assigned by the U.S. Navy to the development of practical jet assisted takeoff (JATO) and liquid propellant rocket motors capable of variable thrust. In both areas, he was successful. He died on August 10,1945, four days after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. "