Comments on: Transatlantic Roller Coaster Designed to Bomb U.S.A

By: Simon Gunson. NZ

Simon Gunson. NZ — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:58:27 +0000

In report PRO file WO.208/4178 compiled at C.S.D.I.C. Camp 11, Dornberger is quoted saying the following about the real intended warhead for the A4/V-2 rockets:

“2. Dornberger claimed, on the other hand, that he had begged the Führer to stop the V-weapon propaganda, because nothing more could be expected from just one ton of explosive. To this Hitler had replied that Dornberger: might not expect more but he himself certainly did.”

Dornberger also revealed in the same report:

“7. Dornberger, in conversation with Generalmajor Bassenge, made the following miscellaneous remarks dealing with the ‘V 2′. He said that: (d) Braun and Dornberger himself had realised at the end of December 1944 that things were going wrong and had consequently been in touch since that time with the General Electric Company through the German Embassy in Portugal, with a view to coming to some arrangement.

By: Simon Gunson. NZ

Simon Gunson. NZ — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:35:54 +0000

The nazis were not so far behind in terms of nuclear warhead development as this story suggests. In 1942 German scientist Erich Baage worked out the gaseous uranium centrifuge later called the Harteck process after Dr Paul Harteck who developed the machine to an industrial scale in 1944 for a Nazi contract.

What prevented the Nazi nuke was effective British spying by Project Epsilon which directed bombing missions to flatten uranium enrichment laboratories. Following the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, the SS took over V-2 production and the nuclear weapons project.

SS Obergruppenfuher Dr Hans Kammler and his boss Himmler sent General Walter Dornberger and Werner von Braun to Lisbon in October 1944 to negotiate capitulation of both the nuclear and V-2 rocket projects with Americans. (revealed by Dornberger at CSDIC camp 11 post war records)

By: D. Stern

D. Stern — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:25:45 +0000

The extension of the V-2s range was an advanced idea as was Drs. Eugene and Irene Sanger with their winged orbital skip-glide bomber. This history…the A-4B, A-9 projections and Sanger’s orbital bomber, was taken up by Dr. Walter Dornberger when he began work at bell Aircraft in the early 1950s. See my stories in QUEST Spaceflight History from 2006 and 2008 on secret boost-glider projects of the Cold War, and the secret unknown alternate Dyna Soar studies accomplished by Bell,
Martin who competed against Boeing for the Dyna Soar Project. The winged orbital vehicle studies,
even includes the “baby-Dyna Soars,” Martin “Prime” and McDonnell “Asset,” plus other black highly classified winged hypersonic vehicles. Their origins are related to the above people, and professor von Hoefft who started winged orbital rocket studies in the between the late 1920s andinto ther 1930s. The Sangers simply picked up where von Hoefft quit and continued with the concept. End

By: Thomas L. Nielsen

Thomas L. Nielsen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:24:44 +0000

“…but I think that any wing capable of even the minimum lift required here would have been ripped away by the acceleration to 5,450 mph”

Not necessarily. Remember, these speeds would only have been reached above the denser parts of the atmosphere.

Regards & all

Thomas L. Nielsen
Denmark

By: Stannous

Stannous — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:53:24 +0000

The multi-stage rocket was what set Werner von Braun’s designs apart and made the entire US space program possible but I think that any wing capable of even the minimum lift required here would have been ripped away by the acceleration to 5,450 mph.