Material dealing specifically with issues related to the A4 – V2 missile’s on-board technology and hardware.
By steam engine to the stars? An overview of the V2 rocket’s turbopump The idea that one of the most significant inventions to emerge from the second world war was ‘steam-driven’ may strike you as more than a little anachronistic; […]
Analysing and transcribing the original 75-year old V2 rocket turbopump technical drawings for modern 3D modelling systems. Computer Aided Design (CAD) has a surprisingly long history but the modern 3D CAD we see everywhere today did not take root until […]
The eighteen pot injector head. This is the first image blog from Alexsander Savochkin in what we hope will become an expanding resource for those wishing to find out more about the design and construction of the A4/V2 missile. The […]
About ten years ago now I was shown a relic, found in the sandy soil of the Peenemünde woods, that turned out to be part of a simple system for evaluating the fuel injector inserts used in the 25-ton test […]
With a few notes on the development history of this critically important technology The time boundaries for the development of the fuel injection system of the A4/V2 25-ton thrust engine are simple enough to state; the process began at the […]
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