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V2 engine part from a missile fired from Walcheren, Serooskerke, Vrederust, by battery no 444, at around 7am on September 17th 1944. The missile impacted East Ham with a direct hit on houses. Killing 6 people with 15 seriously injured. Much of the rocket debris was taken to the East Ham police station for examination by the military authorities. Information porovided by www.v2rocket.com.

Album: A4-V2 Injection head, combustion chamber, and nozzle

Categories: Combustion

Tags: #Combustion and injection #V2 in combat #V2 Missile relics

Examination of V2 missile thrust chamber. Sections of two of the large bore aluminium alcohol inlet manifold feed pipes and two thin steel veil colling supply pipes are still attached. The distinctive heat expansion relief loop can be seen on one of the pipes.

Album: A4-V2 Injection head, combustion chamber, and nozzle

Categories: V2 Missile relics

Tags: #Combustion and injection #Thrust chamber #V2 Missile relics

Image shows interior of production series (combat relic) V2 missile propellent injector pre-mixer pots. Three post in the picture are intact, others seem in the picture have been destroyed in the impact. This engine part was recovered from a combat impact East of London. Impact date: February 1945

Album: A4-V2 Injection head, combustion chamber, and nozzle

Categories: Combustion V2 Missile relics

Tags: #Combustion and injection #Propellent injector system #V2 Missile relics

Recovered from Great Warley impact: February 1945. This chamber has a production use order number of 33 painted crudely on topmost segment. This number, to indicate rank in batch, was added shortly after manufacture to ensure the chamber was selected by the missile assembly crews in the correct order; that is on a newest-last basis to make sure that the oldest chambers were employed in missile construction operations first.

Album: A4-V2 Injection head, combustion chamber, and nozzle

Categories: V2 Missile relics

Tags: #V2 in combat #V2 Missile relics #Thrust chamber

Two Askania (designed) hydraulic gear pumps – the examples shown here have two ceramic insulators with with Nichrome wire type heating elements. The heaters are located at each end of the pump on the long axis. The pump on the right still has its power supply wires attached and was easily repaired and restored to full function in our workshop.This type of pump (with heaters) seem to be rare among the debris of European combat impact sites but fairly common in debris collections emanating from research flights in Peenemünde and parts of Poland. An explanation maybe that the oil could be warmed up sufficiently simply by starting all four hydraulic gear pumps sooner in the pre-launch sequence. The only downside being that the already noisey missile would be making yet more noise in the risky period leading up to launch.

Album: A4-V2 Hydraulic servo and electric trim motor

Categories: Missile guidence V2 Missile relics

Tags: #Control surface servos #V2 Missile relics