RandyT0001
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I suspect that most rocketeers have some knowledge of the A4/V2 rocket developed by Germany before and during WW2. Some rocketeers have even pursued deeper into history and know of the A1/A2/A3 development rockets that came before the A4. I seem to recall that some manufacturer/company, maybe an individual built the winged A4 research rocket under development to extend the range of the basic A4 by three hundred miles or so. Obviously others have done some research into the series and development of this rocket family.
I am interested in the A9/A10 rocket program that had just started serious design work toward the end of the war. The program was beginning to design a two stage rocket that could launch a one ton warhead about 500km above the ground so that it would glide back to Earth across a few thousand miles to it's targets in the United States. Because of this trajectory it was called the "America Rocket" by the Allies after the war.
This is a low quality image I got from that website. I have a better one already, see below.
When I try to search this forum (and others) it basically rejects the search because the word A9 and A10 are too small, common, etc and therefore were not included in the search. When I use Google to do a search I get some material, most in German which Google can often translate but a majority of that is from forums where people are arguing that the A9/A10 rocket program was actually an American hoax created to further the US's building of ICBM's. One site was from a German model rocket company that had made a kit of the upper A9 stage. While it is a very nice kit I want to model the combined A9/A10 rocket instead.
I do not want to waste time re-inventing the wheel. I have Monogram Aviation Publicantions's 1994 edition of V-Missiles of the Third Reich the V-1 and V-2 written by Dieter Holsken. It has a much clearer image than the one posted above which I have already scanned (at a resolution of one pixel equals -about- 19.3mm of rocket dimensions) and am in the process of cleaning it up and adding some new dimension lines and notations. If somebody has already done this or has other legible, good quality copies of other historical German technical drawings of the A9/A10 rocket please contact me or reply in this thread.
TIA
I am interested in the A9/A10 rocket program that had just started serious design work toward the end of the war. The program was beginning to design a two stage rocket that could launch a one ton warhead about 500km above the ground so that it would glide back to Earth across a few thousand miles to it's targets in the United States. Because of this trajectory it was called the "America Rocket" by the Allies after the war.
This is a low quality image I got from that website. I have a better one already, see below.
When I try to search this forum (and others) it basically rejects the search because the word A9 and A10 are too small, common, etc and therefore were not included in the search. When I use Google to do a search I get some material, most in German which Google can often translate but a majority of that is from forums where people are arguing that the A9/A10 rocket program was actually an American hoax created to further the US's building of ICBM's. One site was from a German model rocket company that had made a kit of the upper A9 stage. While it is a very nice kit I want to model the combined A9/A10 rocket instead.
I do not want to waste time re-inventing the wheel. I have Monogram Aviation Publicantions's 1994 edition of V-Missiles of the Third Reich the V-1 and V-2 written by Dieter Holsken. It has a much clearer image than the one posted above which I have already scanned (at a resolution of one pixel equals -about- 19.3mm of rocket dimensions) and am in the process of cleaning it up and adding some new dimension lines and notations. If somebody has already done this or has other legible, good quality copies of other historical German technical drawings of the A9/A10 rocket please contact me or reply in this thread.
TIA