Word: v2
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiddies' Rocket. In Hamburg, Germany, Exporter Günther Lukas was planning to supply the U.S. Christmas market with an up-to-date but frightening toy: a footlong, six-ounce rocket, similar to the German wartime V2, that zooms off a three-foot-long launching rack at almost 90 m.p.h., shoots up 300 feet. At the top of its climb, a small parachute breaks out from the nose and lets down the rocket slowly. It can then be refilled with a charge similar to those in firework skyrockets and used again. Price in Germany, about...
Atomic Progress. Then the magazine was filled with pictures of warships again. Soon the editors were speculating about German jet fighters. Later they were explaining the operation of the "fantastic stratosphere rocket," the German V2. For four years there was no more mention of atomic energy...
...rocket was a "piggyback" combination : a small Wac Corporal set in the nose of a German V2. An earlier test the week before had been a fizzle (a fuel pump went haywire), but this time the V-2 roared up and turned east over the ocean. In one minute and 20 seconds it reached an altitude of 51,000 ft. and a speed of 1,700 m.p.h...
Then the Wac Corporal, set off by preset instruments or radio control, separated from the V2, adding its speed to that of the larger rocket. How fast and how far it went is still the Air Force's secret, but one spokesman mentioned an intended range greater than 175 miles. According to one informed observer, the Wac Corporal probably jreached a speed of 5,000 m.p.h...
...basis of comparable figures for the V2, the Viking might have taken the bomb to a target more than 200 miles away. If the Norton Sound were stationed at the proper point off the U.S. East Coast, Vikings could hit either New York, Philadelphia or Washington, or all three...