Re: Need help identifying plane in photo


Keith W wrote:
"Rob Arndt" <teuton263@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Um, the only problem is that the world's first rocket aircraft was the
Opel RAK-1 followed by the liquid-fuel motored hybrid He-118 testbeds
and then by the pure liquid fuel rocket motor He-176 a/c.

So what - it was a developmental dead end

Ever hear of the X-1 and X-15??? Idiot...

Germany's Walter series of JATO/RATO were the best in the world and the
Germans used them extensively throughout the war.

Thats arguable to say the least and jato units were used extensively
by allied aircraft during the war. The first USAAC used was in 1941

The Walter 100-500 series was better and re-usable.


The Germans even had
a jet wheeled aircraft catapult by the end of the war. And of course
they had the chemical cylinders for the V-1 ramps which produced steam
for the catapults... more stolen technology as the US and UK poured
over those sites and applied that knowledge to aircraft carriers.


psst The RN steam catapults didnt use chemicals, they tapped
steam from the boilers which was far more effective

Check your history from DERA:

Used on many aircraft carriers today, the steam catapult and angled
deck were developed by British researchers. A steam catapult lets
high-speed jet planes take off from an aircraft carrier which has a
very short runway. There is a ready supply of steam for the catapult
from the ship's boilers. The steam catapult is not unlike the
'atmospheric railway', a system that was tested unsuccessfully in the
mid-nineteenth century. This used steam to shunt tight-fitting trains
through tunnels, just like pistons. British researchers were inspired
to develop the steam catapult in 1947, after seeing the steam-powered
launching system for the V1, the German's deadly flying bomb.


So much of postwar standardized technology was actually German wartime
operational or experimental technology. Comparing ancient Chinese
powder rockets and Civil War era rockets is asinine compared to the
Third Reich's development and application of rocket technology. Greater
still was the dreams of hypersonic bombers, orbital space stations, and
actual spacecraft.
And *** Godddard too. Oberth was designing war artillery rockets in
WW1

Congreve was using them in 1812

Congreve rockets were not on the scale nor would possess the explosive
power of the designs Oberth put forth during WW1 but were rejected...
Germany was too busy inventing and introducing the flamethrower, true
SMG/ MP-18, first special force Stormtroopers, the AT gun, AA gun,
chemical warfare, and had the Paris Gun and Big Bertha. They had the
best fighters, developed synchronized firing through the propeller arc,
had the huge Zeppelins and giant bombers, and ended the war with the
Siemens-Shuckert D.IV, the Gast MG of 1,300 rpm, and glider torpedos
launched from Zeppelin-Staaken R IV bombers. The Germans had also armed
several Zeppelins with rockets similar to the French incendiary types.
The Oberth rockets were more akin to German WW2 Nebelwerfer types than
the puny Congreve...


Keith

Rob

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