Re: Re: V2

Hey Bruno

    What a resource!  Absolutely beautiful drawings. 

Bruno Berger wrote:

> Russell McMahon wrote:
>
>> These are smaller versions of some of the V2 photos I mentioned.
>> These are the nozzle/engine subset. Body set yet to come.
>> I will put some or all of these on a website but this reduced size 
>> set gives
>> you an idea of what to expect.
>
>
> I see, you have been in the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich :-)
>
> I have some blueprints of the V2 which are maybe of interest as well 
> (every pic is about 1 MByte due to the highres!). They decorate our 
> offices :-) :
>
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200001.jpg
> This is a sectional drawing of the turbo pump. I was surprised how 
> advanced it was. Today’s turbo pumps don't look different much.
>
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200004.jpg
> An overview of the V2 combustion chamber
>
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200003.jpg
> dito, more detailed. You can see what kind of a welder's and plumber's 
> nightmare it was.
>
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200006.jpg
> details of the shower head
>
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200007.jpg
> This is probably not V2, I guess its a "Wasserfall". But it has a lot 
> of design similarities to the V2. It was a surface-to-air missile and 
> used storable liquid propellants (Nitric acid etc.) and can be 
> considered as the predecessor of the scuds.
> More infos about this missile:
> http://www.luft46.com/missile/wasserfl.html
> http://www.netaxs.com/people/ebailey/wasserfall.html
>
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200008.jpg
> the rear of the Wasserfall
>
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200009.jpg
> An injector head of an surface to air missile (I don't think it's from 
> the Wasserfall) just finished before the end of the war in Europe. 
> This is IMO the most astonishing blueprint. If you study the details 
> of the design, then you realize *how* advanced the German rocketeers 
> were at the end of the war. A monolithically impingement injector as 
> its still built today. Guess why the early US injectors look like that 
> :-)
>
> And because my engineers heart beats faster when I see such a 
> masterpiece, here a close-up view of the blueprint above:
> http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200010.jpg
>
> Enjoy :-)
>
> Bruno
>


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