Timeline for V2 drawing interpretation
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Dec 2, 2021 at 9:16 | vote | accept | Forward Ed | ||
| Nov 5, 2021 at 13:54 | answer | added | Phil Sweet | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 2:32 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | Okay, I think I've found the beastie - Model 39a | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 2:08 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | @ForwardEd The A3 and A5 were smaller. The alcohol tank surrounds the combustion chamber. The oxidizer tank is the free tank. Both stages used turbopumps for pressurization. The A9 sat recessed into the A10 interstage. This was the "America Rocket" proposal. The A9 stage could reach America as a ramjet assisted glide bomb. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 1:58 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | The A9 is a modified A4. It was for the winged version of the V2 and the ramjet extended V2. I see it was reported to be bigger than the A4, so it fits now. I was thinking the three numbers were the the thicknesses of the three tank components, the spherical ends, the transition areas, and the shells. | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 11:53 | comment | added | Forward Ed | @SolarMike Not denying that at all. However I am guessing based on the sketch I found here, these tanks are for different designs. The tanks in the question's drawing appears to encompass the main engine where the sketch appears to show the fuel tank for the A4 above the engine. I would say these are actually the drawings for the A3 and A5 models and not the A4 based on what I just found. | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 8:23 | comment | added | Solar Mike | I don't think they missed any dimension as they flew into Kent quite often during the war... | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 2:43 | comment | added | Forward Ed | @PhilSweet I use Chrome as my browser and it has a built translator that you can tell to convert web pages (not images). Based on what I saw on this page it is my understanding that this is the A4 and A10 fuel tanks. Oxygen and Alcohol if I read right. It is also my understanding that the A4 is the V2. | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 2:30 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | Since I don't read German, what rocket motor is that exactly? The first multistage was the A9/A10, but the dimensions don't match. But the design looks quite similar. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 23:25 | answer | added | Pete W | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 21:57 | history | asked | Forward Ed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
