Day test launch of a V-2 (also known as A4) rocket at the Peenemunde Rocket Development Center in Peenemünde, Usedom, Nazi Germany during World War 2. V-2 rocket high in flight. Smoke trail. A piece appears to break off the rocket. The piece and the larger rocket fall from the sky and crash into the ground or sea in the distance.
Day launch of a V-2 test rocket from Peenemunde Rocket Development Center in Peenemünde, Usedom, Nazi Germany, during World War 2. Close view of camouflage painted rocket at ignition and liftoff from test stand. Trees seen close by the launch area as the V-2 rocket (A4) soars into the sky. Camera tracks its progress high into the air.
A man in driver seat and a woman in the back seat sit of Volkhart R1 rocket propelled car during a test drive in April 1928 at Nürburgring race course speedway in Nürburg, Germany. The words "Sander-Raketen" (Sander rockets) painted on side of the car. A man near the automobile presents flowers to the woman, just before they start. Photographers take pictures and a man in foreground is seen hand cranking a motion picture camera to record the event. Car on the speedway track. Rockets ignite, propelling the car along the track. Spectators watch.
Reinhold Tiling working with his coworker, Karl Poggensee,at his workshop in Arenshorst, Germany, where he developed compressed powder fuel for his post office rocket. View of hydraulic press Tiling made himself, inside the workshop. Several photos of the buildings, workshop, and schematic drawings. Rocket being tested on stand outside the shop. Diagrams of test result data. Interior of the workshop with several model rockets, in 1929. Diagram of the rocket showing how fins extend to allow undamaged return of the rocket to earth. Picture of the first rocket successfully launched in 1928, showing its fin-wings extended.
Third test of an Achenstaber rocket by Klaus Riedel, and associates. View of another test stand structure, inside a small metal building. The test stand erected outside the building, next to a steep hill, where a group of people are assembled to witness the test rocket firing. Interior view of the operating station, with liquid oxygen and another pressure tank seen along with pressure gauges. A dynamometer for measuring the rocket thrust. The smallest and largest combustion chambers. Model of the Pilot Rocket having 750 Kg thrust, the starting point for a manned rocket. A man poses with the prototype rocket motor. A precursor for the Pilot Rocket, with thrust of 250 Kg is seen laid out horizontally on a stand and then in a launch test stand. Closeup on the test stand. A crew loading the precursor Pilot Rocket and a pre-fabricated test stand, onto a truck for transport to a site in Magdeburg, Germany. The crew setting the test stand and 250-Kg-thrust rocket in place at Magdeburg. Fueling the rocket with liquid oxygen. Condensate fumes rising. Test firing of the rocket motor while fastened to the test stand. The rocket burns smoothly, as seen from afar. Next is the first test firing of a large liquid-fueled rocket, on June 29, 1933, at Magdeburg. A large crowd of spectators gathered around the rocket and stand, as technicians do final refueling. Rudolf Nebel explaining the rocket to members of press and officials. Nebel giving signal to fire the rocket engine. View of fire streaming from the 250-Kg-thrust rocket on the stand as it slowly rises and heads horizontally, to impact the ground about 50 yards away.
Several views of preparations for the 10th test of a four nozzle (Vierstaber) rocket at Klaus Riedel's farm in Germany. Refueling the rocket. A young man standing with pieces of the rocket that exploded during the test. Change to another test, the first test of the Vierstabers rockets,on Lindwerder Island in Lake Tegel, Berlin, on July 14, 1933. The rocket set up for launch and being refueled. Lake Tegel in background. People gathered around it during refueling. Dense clouds of condensation around the rocket. The rocket is launched and rises high into the sky before falling into the lake with a splash. View of the rocket upside down in shallow waters of the lake.
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