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Topic: Any truth to this?
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NASAVideographer
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posted 11-04-2004 05:27 PM
   
I am reading Gordon Cooper's autobiography "Leap of Faith" and he mentions conversations with Joaquin "Jack" Keutner, a member of von Braun's rocket team...in one conversation Keutner talks about a manned V-2 that was to be launched on a low-energy easterly orbit and the plan was to drop a warhead on New York City. Supposedly it came within a week of being launched in 1945. Now my question is this...was Keutner pulling Cooper's leg? Is this the Amerika rocket I have heard about? How can a V-2 be manned? Thanks, James
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 11-04-2004 06:13 PM
Twenty-odd years ago, when Enola Gay was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, my social studies teacher came across some photos - I think at the Proving Grounds - of a German photo showing an island with a gray rectangle in the middle. The photo was of New York City, the grey rectangle Central Park.Dennis Jenkins' Space Shuttle: A History of the National Space Transportation System has some background on the planned Amerika bomber. It wasn't a manned V-2, but rather an extension of the V-2 technology. |
machbusterman
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posted 11-05-2004 05:31 AM
There is the sole surviving Amerikarocket (can't remember the designation) on display at the RAF Museum at Cosford in Shropshire (England). It is at least twice the physical size of the A-2 (V-2) and would have been capable of delivering a high-explosive warhead to either the Eastern seaboard or West Coast of the continental United States. I'll scan my computer to see if I have a photograph of it.
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mmmoo
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posted 11-05-2004 06:24 AM
Heres a good site on the Amerika Bomber
http://www.luft46.com/misc/sanger.html
Mike Constantine
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 11-05-2004 08:28 AM
What I would love more than anything, if I won the lottery is to do an aerospace Mythbusters; that is, build the air and spacecraft that exists as designs only, and see if they would actually fly.... |
divemaster
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posted 11-05-2004 11:50 AM
there's even a model available
http://www.warmplastic.com/s-b.html
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eurospace
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From: Brussels, Belgium
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posted 11-05-2004 01:10 PM
I think the guy's name was Joachim Kuettner, could that be?At least that's the only name similar to what you write that is in the list of Peenemündians who came to the US after the War. ------------------
Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
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