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... , first Mirak type rocket motor of the VfR. Artist, unknown.''' The Second ''Mirak'' Due to a number of cooling, propellant circulations, and other problems encountered in working on the first Mirak, an improved second ''Mirak ... thrust. But the rocket exploded about April of 1931. ref 2 Image:Fig._13_2nd_Mirak.jpg thumb right Drawing, second Mirak type rocket motor of the VfR. Artist, unknown. The Third ''Mirak ''And Earliest ...

... the Mirak experiments in Bernstadt - the Society's first actual experiments. Image:Fig. 12 1st Mirak.jpg thumb right '''Drawing, first Mirak type rocket motor of the VfR. Artist, unknown.''' Reports on the Mirak tests “The work (on the Mirak),” the statement begins, “was supported ...

... entire trip” was he and his wife (Leatrice Pendray) witnessing a static test of a rocket, a ''Mirak II'' type described below. As on the German side, the Pendrays (and other AIS ... building the VfR's first Mirak; it is possible Klaus Riedel played a bigger role but that Nebel characteristically took full credit for it. ref 14 German Rocket Society - Verein für Raumschiffahrt ... result of the Pendray visit was lengthy coverage of the VfR's experimental ''Mirak'' series of rockets (up to the ''Mirak 3'') in the first book in the English language of spaceflight, ''The ...

... explained that: “...we built: four proving stands, one for the Miraks - the first type of liquid-fuel rockets we built - one for rocket motors alone. This was the second or large proving stand ... . Then, in the ''Raketenflug'' Nr. 2 for March 1932, Nebel ran the article “Powder Rockets – Liquid Propellant Rockets, A Comparison,” that quite rightly demonstrated far superior exhaust velocities of liquid propellants over ...

... Riedel, worked on modified engines and missiles, and only made the necessary minimum (minimum missiles - Mirak). Ley met with Max Valier to try and get him more involved in the ... dissolved quickly. image:Greenwood-rakete2.jpg 350px left thumb The Greenwood Lake Rocket Mail Willy Ley Publicist and Rocket Specialist His SF stories brought him in contact with Science Fiction fans and ...

... this introductory note into seven parts, as follows: 1. Comments on a Chemical Rocket versus a Nuclear Rocket Space Program: The Static versus the Dynamic 2. General Comments on Nuclear Rocketry 3 ... About Profitability? Or, How Much Money Can Be Made? Comments on a Chemical Rocket versus a Nuclear Rocket Space Program: The Static versus the Dynamic I’ll cover the basic stuff first ...

... of Rocket Propellants 2 - Some Possibilities for Rocket Propellants 10 - Liquid Propellant Rocket Power Plants 26 - Liquid Rocket Motor Testing 45 - 73 March 1948 - Rocket Motors Project Heavy Steel Cables 5 - Present and Future of Rockets 9 - The Acid-Aniline Rocket Engine ...

... and other media of the day. Put another way, technologically-speaking these rocket car, rocket airplane (and later rocket railroad and even rocket ice-sled) stunts - some by Valier - had no connection whatsoever to ... to VfR), Die Rakete, 15 April 1928, p. 64. For more on the rocket cars, rocket planes, and other rocket stunts in Germany at this time, consult, Frank H. Winter, "1928- 1929 Forerunners ...

... .” The apparent Nazi-governmental imposition upon both private rocket experimentation and rocket groups as well as a censorship on the mention of the word “rocket,” for potential military use, are other areas that ... classify or describe ''all ''the membership in general, such as “the amateur group,” “the rocket engineers,” “the rocket enthusiasts,” “the Raketenflugplatz enthusiasts,” or simply, “the enthusiasts,” although in truth, there were hundreds ...

... country in the late 1920s. He well knew of the rocket stunts---including rocket cars and rocket-propelled gilders (utilizing solid-propellant gunpowder rockets of the day)--of the automobile magnate and “sportsman” Fritz ... with parachutes and aim for perfect soft landings.” Among the powered rockets scheduled for launch were: “space exploring rockets i.e., rockets designed as built to resemble launch vehicles , a science fiction special ...

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