Manufacturing scenes of the liquid fueled Pietsch-Heylandt rocket car. Framework showing internal fuel tanks. A man sitting in the framework, manipulating a fuel valve on the floor. The car's rocket engine being fired up and the framework car moving along pavement, outside the factory, in May, 1931 A completed car with "Heylandt" painted on its side, moving along pavement, with two men inside. Rocket exhaust visible at rear. They test drive the car around in a town. Rocket car being refueled for demonstrations at the Tempelhof airdrome, in Berlin.
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.
Dr. Johannes Winkler, rocket pioneer. Laboratory workers pose next to outer casing of HW2 liquid fueled rocket. Dr. Winkler making adjustment on the HW2. View of HW2 standing on its tail on the ground beside the launch control building. Assistant holds slate warning of explosions, and Winkler and his assistants toast the rocket's completion by drinking beer from bottles. Camera pans vertically over the rocket. Winkler opens a flush door in the rocket and places something inside. Winkler seen describing features of the rocket for the camera, while his staff stands nearby.
Rolf Engel led a 1933 study group on special problems of liquid fueled rocket engines. Engel and members of the study group are seen at work. Beginning of a standardization and classification for the rocket problems. A diagram showing characteristics of rocket engines with standard nomenclature. A man with standardized rocket engine testing equipment. View of the standardized 6-copy multiple professional device for recording rocket engine performance. The work of Rudolf Nebel on the Rocket field of Berlin-Reinickendorf was continued under the leadership of Fritz Beck of the testing department of the German air guard (LSS) in 1933. But it was canceled in the spring of 1934 when the LSS took over direction of the German Air Sports Association. Letters to the Association noting that lessons of World War One point out the value of the Associations technical capabilities to National defense. They also mention matters of particular interest to the German Air Guard, such as rockets and Rocket torpedoes. An organizational chart showing various components under the Experimental Department of the German Air Guard.
Designs by various international scientists and inventors who have contributed to solving the problems of rocket motor development, based on the German preparatory work. Their combustion chamber designs owe much to the German pioneers in the field. Shown are design sketches by Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Ziolkowsky) in 1914; French inventor Henri Melot, in 1920; German Friedrich Zander, in 1931; Bull, 1932; The American Rocket Society, with several designs from 1932; and The Cleveland Rocket Society. Views of rocket combustion research activity by Ernst Loebell of the Cleveland Rocket Society in 1933. He is seen outdoors in the snow with his apparatus. View of Loebell's test firing stand, and a picture of an actual test firing, outdoors. Ernst Loebell with model and rocket motor from his spaceship projects of 1934 and at the International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life held in Paris, 1937. Cutaway views of the spaceship. The rocket motor wrapped in cooling coils. Rocket motor design by John Shesta of the American Rocket Society, from 1934. Design by Rene Armengaud of France, in 1934 and Deich in 1935.
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