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...metal cylinder. In accordance with Army doctrine, it is tough, can stand quick transportation and quick firing from enemy-influenced territory. Tested many times from the monstrous steel tower that sticks up above the scrub palmetto of Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Redstone is a vast improvement over its ancestral V2, both in range, guidance and warhead. The Army is confident that after moderate changes it will reach to 1,500 miles. The Redstone is the reason why the Army has been given a crack at the IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles), which have the same urgent priority as the ICBM...
...they were driven out of their hiding places, although one Viking blew up and another tore itself free during a static test. At last, after years of trying, Viking7 triumphed, rising 137 miles and exceeding the altitude record (114 miles) of the much larger and more expensive German V2. In 1954, Viking-11 established a new record (158 miles) for a single-stage rocket...
...only possible defense against the Allies' vast fleets of bombers. Hitler, against the advice of his best airmen, ordered the jets used as bombers, not fighters, and also opted to throw Germany's resources into making guided missiles-the put-putting V-1 and the rocket-powered V2. By late 1944 Galland, like his fellow airmen, was perfectly able to see that Germany, without enough defense against the air raids, had had it. Relieved in the dying days of the war, he took command of a last-ditch squadron of hand-picked aces, none ranking lower than colonel...
...another goddam penny," an Express official was told, "until you change your critics." Chief target was the Evening Standard's Milton Shulman, who recently joshed the plot of Affair in Trinidad (which contains some schemers fiddling with the V-2 rocket): "Launched from bases in the Caribbean, [the V2] could destroy most of the major centers in the United States and presumably, with any luck, Hollywood." Also on Hollywood's list was the Sunday Graphic's Robert Ottaway, who wrote: "A mediocre lot of movies go the rounds this week . . . If I were...
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...