A Czech jet boat, designed by Ludvik Ocenasek ,operating only on jets, without steering rudder or propeller. Water jets are attached to the side of the speed boat. The boat moves at a high speed and is completely maneuverable. Brief view of "space rockets" that American Robert Condit believes could "fly to Venus."
Tribute to rocket pioneers. Pictures of German rocket scientists appear.Research in powder and fluid rocket engines. Two men push rocket powder in a hole with a stick. Views of exploding fireworks displays and use of powder in wartime rockets and artillery shells and munitions. Photo-rocket and signal rocket. Two men in a field put a signal rocket in a launch tube. The end of rocket is tied to a fuse cord that remains outside the tube. The fuse is ignited and the rocket launches. It rises up and releases signal smoke. Men wearing safety jackets arrange a rocket on hillside. A line is tied on a rocket. A ship in distress. The rocket is fired. It rises up with the line and reaches the ship. Rope line released from a roll.
Karl Poggensee and Reinhold Tiling demonstrate the workings of their first 1929 model of a so-called gyro aircraft, employing tilted wings that cause autorotation to slow the descent of a rocket and facilitate its recovery. Animated sequence shows how a rocket would be recovered in this manner. A man holding up a similar rocket. He is surrounded by spectators.
Scenes from the production, during 1928, of the German science fiction movie, Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) that premiered in 1929. The director, Fritz Lang, received technical advice from rocketry and space flight theorist, Hermann Oberth. Two men walk to a large mockup of the film spacecraft rocket sitting in an open field. A hinged model of the spacecraft rocket opens showing its interior. Shots of the rocket moving in a hangar and then moving out of the hangar. The rocket firing and racing into the sky, and a booster rocket detaching from it. Other rockets depicted moving across the night sky.
View of Johannes Winkler's personal laboratory workshop in 1928. His first apparatus for testing liquid rocket fuels. The first device to be considered a flying testbed for Winkler's liquid rocket. The rocket with test facility. More laboratory apparatus. Test apparatus erected outdoors. Snow on the ground, and houses visible in background. Test equipment with spring force measurement capability. Winkler at his outdoor setup.
German Rocket pioneer Johannes Winkler and his liquid fueled HW2 rocket. Diagrammatic drawing of the HW2 liquid fueled rocket, that Winkler designed based on his prior experience with the HW1c. He considered liquid fuel the key to achieving stratopheric heights. Dr. Winkler in his laboratory with rocket models. He is seen outdoors, setting the HW2 on a launch stand. Views of the HW2 ready for launching. View of data recording devices built by Dr. Winkler. Cold fumes seen from liquid oxygen. View inside laboratory of HW2 with its data instrumentation. Original Shear diagrams for the HW1c and HW2 rockets. The HW2 in its casing and a cutaway drawing of it. View of quick opening valve for liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
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