Re: Rutan Rips Off German Design


Krztalizer wrote:
> >Rutan still hasn't matched the X-15, over 40 years earlier. And it
> >was the Germans who pioneered the rocket technology that made
> >both possible.
>
> Funny, the Germans on Dornberger's team credited Goddard, who got his
> inspiration from all the earlier rocketry pioneers, stretching back to
> the ancient Chinese.
>
> BTW, who do you give credit to for the X-15's development? A nation of
> millions pouring money into a national project with thousands of
> contractors, legions of engineers, and unlimited assets is usually
> going to come up with something that can beat a single company.
>
> Gordon

The reality is that there were early powerfull leaders and pioneers in
the promotion of spaceflight and liquid propellant propulsion in both
Germany and the US. Indeed they were on friendly terms. Hermann
Oberth used money won in a competition for the best essay on "the way
into space" to fund the German society for spaceflight while in the USA
there was a similar society that conducted tests and constructed
rockets.

Robert Goddard himself initially received far more funding than the
Germans did.

Charles Lindbergh who quickly became an avid supporter of Goddard.
Funding arranged by Lindbergh, largely from the Daniel and Florence
Guggenheim Foundation let Professor Goddard advance his work.

The German Amateurs ran out of funding but eventually received funding
from the German Army who was looking for a way around the harsh
artillery restrictions imposed upon it.

I really don't like this nonsense that goes on between Arndt and Dan.

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