Max Valier
From The Space Library
Fritz von Opel drives Max Valier's solid rocket propelled RAK-2 car at the Avus race track (c. May 1928)
Max Valier gazes at the camera as his sponsor Fritz von Opel receives the acclaim for Valier's rocket car. (May 1928)
Max Valier with his solid rocket propelled railway carriage RAK-1 (ca. 1928)
Max Valier and his RAK-1 solid-rocket propelled ice sled. (c. Jan 1929)
Max Valier RAK-2 solid-rocket ice sled (c. 1929)
Max Valier in his solid-rocket propelled RAK-3 aircraft (c. 1929)
Max Valier in his RAK-5 gas propelled car. (ca. Nov 1929)
Max Valier drives his RAK-6 compressed gas propelled car at Avus speedway, Germany (Dec 22 1929)
Paul Heylandt and Max Valier, April 1930, with Rak 7 LOX/Alcohol rocket car. Walter Riedel in white lab coat in the background
Valier fires the engine on the RAK-7 rocket car, April 1930, representing the first time a liquid fuelled rocket had propelled a manned vehicle.
Max Valier's RAK-7 liquid fuelled rocket car in the Deutsches Museum.
Heylandt/Riedel rocket car test firing engine 160kg thrust (c. April 1931).
The image above is taken at Heylandt factory in Berlin-Britz after Valier's death. Work continued with Riedel, Heylandt and Arthur Rudolph. Cylindrical fuel tank at front, large spherical oxygen tank in rear.
