These videos are a rocket geek's dream come true. Fantastic work, great editing, explanations, models, delivery... all top notch teaching. For free. Thank you very much!
As an engineer, i am always amazed that the main part of any rocket is the ability to push the two fuels into a burner chamber. I have always be rather surprised that nobody ever took a good hard look at what was going on in as far as the power to drive the fuel pump and tbe fact that the very power to do so was in fact coming out of the rocket as its pushing power, when a small unit that could be ignited and it exhaust added to the outflow within the engine so nothing is wasted. The object of the exercise it to first get the turbine to turn and gain speed, it is noted the pre ignition started with gravity feed, small that this maybe it is more than enough to turn the turbine, and anyone having been present when spooling up a turbine will tell you, it happens quiet quickly, not only this but it also helps to ensure combustion in the main chamber, this does away with a sepetate form of energy to run the turbine and any need to build any forn of exhaust for same as it just goes through the main burner camber, the very start of these two pumps is clearly seen as being very fast as soon as fuel starts entering the main chamber, the use of same being fed to drive the pumps starts to increase the speed of the turbine is also speeded up thereby driving more fuel into the main chamber, its self feeding, and includes the ability to throttle the whole engine, and most imporantly reduces waste energy to zero. It has been something that has puzzled me for ages that they never were aware that this works, yet the V1 flying bomb was clearly self propelled in terms of the engine running itself despite the booster rockets that helped it up to speed off thr ramp. All in all a very interesting set of videos, very well introduced to the viewer, thanks very much for your efforts, very well done.
I genuinely enjoy listening to how vast your knowledge is on an array of topics! Thank you for making videos and doing a superb job of explaining how things work!
So impressive. Thank you for producing that video and I so hope your ‘mini museum’ has received the accolades befitting the passion that has obviously been invested into it. Good to see a reference to those who lost their lives in building those machines and what a clever transition from V2 to Shuttle at the end.
Very nice exhibit (hands on rules) and a good tribute to those that died and were used as forced labor. It is such a shame that the A4 could not have been created for peace and not war, but as you said, it is what got humans to the Moon and is an important part of the story.
One of the things that got me interested in the V2 was the computer game Sniper Elite 5, which came out in 2022. The story deals with the German plan to fire V2s from submarines so they can use them against the east coast of the US. There are some very good views of V2 rockets, static and in flight, some pre-assembly parts, a rocket in a wind tunnel, and ground station controls.
sorry for german.... Ich hatte 2002 im Oktober Gelegenheit, in Peenemünde mit einigen Mitarbeitern Werher von Braus zu sprechen. Es war mehr als nur interessant, sowohl aus technischer als auch politischer Sicht. Allesamt hochintelligente Menschen, für mich unvergessliche Eindrücke! Danke für dieses und die anderen Videos zum Thema!!
Having just read "Operation Paperclip", I was thinking about the slave labor camps the entire time I was watching this. Kudos for including that as part of the display, and I hope to get to your side of the pond to see this display one day. (I'm in Houston... if you visited this area, we have some interesting rocketry displays also!)
Can you please tell me exactly where "The Wernher von Braun V2 Rocket Academy" is located? I would so much like to see it in person and have always admired the work of Dr. Wernher von Braun.
I have followed i think just about ever video this gentleman has made, bot as far as astronomy and all its requirement as well as his very in depth look at the V2 rocket. I think that with regards to the latter, it all shows something that is in fact truly amazing, bearing in mind the time frame? When people talk about have gotten assistance from somewhere else, i really tend to lkean toeards that as looked at from a worldly point of view we would all have to ask the question, "How come these people were in fact so far ahead of everyone else.. The sad part is that this was all developed for killing rather than the betterment of mankind, a point that looked at with real forthought begs the question just what would have happened if Germany had been able to start ww2 with this techomlogy in hand, i think the world would have been a very different place, one that none of us would have really been happy with. This is ALL so well explained by this man who must have spent years actually looking at the details. To the point of understanding it, when for most even the method of powering this rocket. I spent twelve years of my live in the U.K. forces( navy) in a very unusual position purely by i think chance, and maybe a touch of enforced education by a ratger overbearing father who despite his unprodictable nature, was overall a very very clever man who insisted that i be their with him every time he did something, so my knowledge about engineering was almost fully developed prior to joining up, so much so that i did ratger live a rather charmed life during my service years, spending all of it doing something that was entirley new. A small part of my time spent at what was then in its very infancy up in Scotland at a place called Faslane, tucked away from observant eyes more than anything else, this i feel was important as it was the very home of the first ever nulcear submarine the U.K. ever had, that was more than just interesting for someone with a mind for engineering plus the good helping of understanding about nuclear physics. How ever in this instance there was a much more eye opening application going on there as if quite normal, that was the operation of two submarines that were experimental, they actually ran on H.T.P. which was produced there in the only building the place had. My first encounter was the day one of these submarines came in after a tour of duty, it came in a little too fast and bumped into the jetty, this cause a rather masive jolt to the sub and somehow allowed a little more than usual use of H.T.P. and the sub actually blew its safety valve which was something that really caught my attention, and was something that is as clear in my mind today as the day it happened, my first question being where the hell did a submarine get all that steam???? Being interested i asked question and learnt a lot anout this means of power, clearly, this was an offshot of the techonolgy used in the V2, and applied to something else, to this day it amazes me that this took place And i learnt that this fuel was stored in formed bags built into the construction as a giant pillow, this in a war machine that would in fact if required go into harms way, making the use of such a substance highly questionable to say the least as there was a huge amount of it. Years after leaving the service i happened to work with an ex submariner, and asked him if he had ever served on either of the boats, he firstly even thought i was crazy as he had never heard of them and had never even heard their names, the Explorer and excalibur. To this day i still have not found out who actually came up with this knowledge as to the use of such a very folatile mix, to say its enerjetic by nature, says nothing as to its actual behavour and nature. Putting the same material into something that was to become airborn, was either an act of desparation or a advancement of technology far outside of the norm, and as we are aware that these rockets have a history that is dated back in the late 1930s says we were lucky that it was so volatile as to keep the use of it off the workbench for so many years, i say that not just in repsect of the V2, but also the rocket powered plain, which as we now all know was a deathtrap if you returned from flight with even a cupfull of this still on board, the chances of a safe landing were to say the least improbably. It is this knowledge thaf really mames me wonder the end result of the flight of one of these Rockets taking into consideration the amount of H.T.P. carried and the fact it was impossible to determine weatger or not ALL the testoff had been used during flight bearing in mind the a cupful was enought to create havoc, and therefore makes the question as to how many of these in fact ended up blowing themselves up in mid air rather than impacting, a fact that i was more than surprised to watch the video of photos taken of what was considered a direct hit, when everything points to a mid air explosion, still causing vast amounts of damage, but leaving tge unanswered question og how much more damage would have taken place had it actually got to the point of impacked. All in all, a very interesting number of very informative videos, very well presented, as are the videos on astronomy, a subject i have equiped my self for and also find incredible, despite the fact that we are now begining to understand just how little we really know about the universe, and making us question thing we have held as being 100 percent correct, only to find that this is not the case, and the answers to really strech out thinking to the limit. Thanks for your attention to so much detail and a numver of videos that i think we should all lezrn something from.
a 1:54 t last A museum I can truly enjoy I'm not only a rocket gig but a blind person so a hands on display would be awesome Hope I can visit from NZ one day Cheers
Hi there, and thanks for posting. The collection outgrew the original Space Shuttle home some years ago, and the shuttle has passed into a higher orbit! We donated it to a deserving astronomy outreach group in Sweden called the Sweden-Starlight Club - and they are making excellent use of it, introducing the night sky to young people. Engineering is a hands-on activity, and the more exhibits can be made available for tactile appreciation, the better. It is unfortunate that too many exhibits have to be behind rope barriers and glass. Currently, we are not open to the public - we have limited funding and can't do everything I'm afraid. Be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss anything. Thanks for your good wishes. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet Thanks for responding it's a shame the display is no longer active still I have your videos to enjoy and the dialogue in them is really good Cheers
I must say, this is the first time I have watched videos on your channel and I am very impressed with the quality of your content and the absolute thoroughness of your presentation. Truly, it is a rarity to see someone care so much for what they do and express that same enthusiasm in sharing their knowledge with EVERYONE. If this message reaches you would you please If at all possible reply/contact and provide me with information on how to contribute to help your further research and community education.. Again please pardon my pseudonym I prefer to remain anonymous whilst on this public forum Cheers
Hi 'Bruce' and thanks for your kind message. We are trying to make the move into creating more self-supporting video content. We had not long started this process before C-19 forced a period of firefighting in other parts of our business activity (we're not alone there!). We plan to get back on track with Patreon and other funding options as soon as we can next year. but for now, all we have is the PayPal option tucked away, perhaps too discreetly, on the lower right of our RUclips channel masthead. Kind regards RJD A&NTV
Fantastic !! where do you find all the V2 part !! Congratulations , I hope you will come in France for exhibition ! V2 was terrific according my mother who lived in England during WWII. Very interesting .. Bravo
Actually, I would actually be interested in how many times the word "actually" is actually mentioned in this video. ;) Still, a very interesting introduction, actually. Even though I actually watched it out of sequence, it was still helpful. Good work, Robert and production crew! All levity aside, with respect to the forced labour program, it's also interesting to read about the very clever efforts of these hapless individuals, to come up with ingenious methods of sabotaging the V2 so that it would never reach the intended target. The German efforts to investigate failures and their utterly ruthless responses to any detected or suspected sabotage can be imagined. So the saboteurs became increasingly sophisticated in creating points of failure that looked entirely natural or accidental.
I wonder if anyone can help regarding how the rocket was guided or steered? I think it's the case that one set of vans on the rocket maintained the missile on a set heading and the other set of vanes maintained the attitude, which changed during the flight path. But I was wondering how the rocket didn't rotate either a little or a lot about its axis during flight? A little bit of misalignment of the rocket motor or rigging of the fins perhaps? If the rocket rotated a little then the fins would not work as described?
FWIW: Regarding what's mentioned at the end of this vid, I personally feel that von Braun "SOLD HIS SOUL FOR ROCK 'N' ROLL". Only it wasn't rock 'n' roll, it was really "ROCK-ETRY"....
Great display and vid - I wish you guys were closer to me! I thought the music and lyrics from Donnie Darko at the end and the V2 changing to the Shuttle summed it up well. The V2, terrible and brilliant at the same time.
Hi there. First try v2rocket.com as it has a useful reading guide and plenty of detail about the V2/A4. For drawings try digipeer.de but you'll probably need to equip yourself with a few technical names of parts in German to navigate the site usefully. I hope this helps. Kind regards RJD
Thanks for a different take on the V2 engineering. I may not have watched the relevant clip to satisfy my curiosity about how the rocket was actually steered. The function of the gyroscopic system is detailed, however the gyros served to stabilize the rocket's direction and would need to be overcome if their direction is to be changed from purely vertical to directing on a ballistic course to their target. How was this done? Were the directions and timing built into the guidance system beforehand? It seems that would require some sort of memory system, i.e. some kind of computing power when no such device existed. Instead, was the rocket controlled from the ground through some kind of telemetry communications? Obviously, these details are crucial.
Shame you didn't get an answer. As far as the various easy access information I've found goes; the fin aerodynamic is not symmetrical and that's why numbered. So rotate table in direction of target. There was some kind of mixer. For gyro input. Maybe program sequence. Accuracy +-10 miles over 150 miles is crappy enough to just run out of fuel?
It is a great video collection of a human best achievements in engineering and science philosophy!..... Thanks & Greetings from Lima....p.s. Rocket isn´t infamous....infamous is the human being when use it wrong....
Hi, I maybe a bit thick but i can not find the address of your new site. The old site The Wernher von Braun V2 Rocket Academy Lancaster way business park (looks a very different building) my google search listed it as permanently closed! Can i have the address of the new site which i would really like to visit. Your videos are brilliant they have answered so many of my questions. Thanks,
Excellent ! Very magnanimous of an Englishman to commemorate & honor von Braun. As to the use of Slave Labor at Dora - Nordhausen ( underground factory in the Herz Mtn.s for mass production of the.V2 after Peene Munde was bombed to smithereens by the RAF ) there were a lot of precedence of using Slave Labor in the Anglo Saxon world too, in several continents. Since WW II the Germans have become very repentant & compensated the Slave labor families !but we are still waiting for that to happen in the Red States of the US. Things are actually getting worse by the year as some among the once dominant White majority are losing faith in democracy ( one man one vote, a win by a single vote is still a win ) as the demography shifts to more non Whites. So let us not be too sanctimonious in order to appear politically correct, let us just stick to the Science & Engr. for a change. Brenn Schluss !
@ferrett78 It all our own I promise you! At first we thought you had perp'ed a typo - but we realise you really do mean KFC the purveyors of fried chicken rather than KSC the purveyors of manned space flight! I don't think we've seen the advertorial item you are referring to. I've checked with management and we will not be dispensing fried chicken from our shuttle any time soon. Pity really. KR A&NC
🚀 well done, jolly good, a primer for the rockets early development phase. The liquid propellent delivery systems were a challenge to overcome but were done so quite effectively. Of course all that volatility was a constant danger. Stabilization, guidance, ignition, fueling, assembly and welding techniques, fuselage materials all problems to solve. See the mighty Saturn V at launch to get a taste of the harnessing of power. 7,500,000 pounds of thrusting force at work on the maned lifting body. When one considers the short time frame of its development and successful deployment it really is quite astonishing. Of course the monetary aspect is equally so. Mankind is a dichotomy of brilliance and foolhardiness. For rocketry can be used for great good or great destructivity.
apparently they used slave labour to assemble the rockets according to some groups who always try to negatively depict the Germans. Having slave labour building this high-tech piece of equipment is like General Dynamics or NASA using ISIS prisoners to build their equipment.
@@expansionone Check out the other videos, picture of slave/forced labour exist. The Germans employed slave labour in many of their war production industries. Tank production was another famous example and many of their tank failures in the battlefield could be traced to assemblies and components being sabotaged by the workers. (Like con-rod bolts being under torqued in the engines)
So far advanced and yet look at history. Almost as if this was all allowed to happen, so the tech could be used by the awaiting American rocket scientists etc.
Those plug show at 4:20 is still a industrial Standard today. Look: b2b.harting.com/ebusiness/de/STAF-20-STI-S/09700202622 And Harting was the inventor of it , now they are made by diffent companies
You know I love all these v2 videos, but that picture at the end of all those slave laborers working on the parts really sunk it home on how terrible the toll it took on people to make it work, all for what? I just visited the Huntsville rocket center and they had a nice v2 display. Full size rocket and engine cut view. They had von brand actual slide rule he used at penamude.
Great education, but I disagree that the destruction caused by the use of the weapon is justified by what the Allies were doing to try to defeat the Nazis. War is brutal, which is why it should not be started. However, if that is not opposed, the tyrants will rule.
Father of the NASA was Wernher von braun, he was a war german WW2 criminals that joined the Nazi HITLER Party of the NSDAP in 30' XX, he contributed to the deaths of many thousands of people with his V2 rockets and even more of his concentration camp in Mittelbau-Dora in Germany where workers were starving! How did you put it all together that you owe it all to a war criminal who, instead of putting him in prison, allowed him to race against the Russians of space conquest, not even saving life or something? More fitting NASA acronym are: Nazis Aeronautics Space Administration
you would have joined to everyone would love to think that they would have fought the Nazis while they lived in Germany but the fact of the matter is there's a 99% chance you would have gone along
Which one, Biggles or Sherlock Holmes? They were both fictional though, so jail time will be tricky - and with the possible exception of my Dad and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, I have no other heros. KR RJD A&NTV
These videos are a rocket geek's dream come true. Fantastic work, great editing, explanations, models, delivery... all top notch teaching. For free. Thank you very much!
Herman ober ...romanian
As an engineer, i am always amazed that the main part of any rocket is the ability to push the two fuels into a burner chamber.
I have always be rather surprised that nobody ever took a good hard look at what was going on in as far as the power to drive the fuel pump and tbe fact that the very power to do so was in fact coming out of the rocket as its pushing power, when a small unit that could be ignited and it exhaust added to the outflow within the engine so nothing is wasted.
The object of the exercise it to first get the turbine to turn and gain speed, it is noted the pre ignition started with gravity feed, small that this maybe it is more than enough to turn the turbine, and anyone having been present when spooling up a turbine will tell you, it happens quiet quickly, not only this but it also helps to ensure combustion in the main chamber, this does away with a sepetate form of energy to run the turbine and any need to build any forn of exhaust for same as it just goes through the main burner camber, the very start of these two pumps is clearly seen as being very fast as soon as fuel starts entering the main chamber, the use of same being fed to drive the pumps starts to increase the speed of the turbine is also speeded up thereby driving more fuel into the main chamber, its self feeding, and includes the ability to throttle the whole engine, and most imporantly reduces waste energy to zero.
It has been something that has puzzled me for ages that they never were aware that this works, yet the V1 flying bomb was clearly self propelled in terms of the engine running itself despite the booster rockets that helped it up to speed off thr ramp.
All in all a very interesting set of videos, very well introduced to the viewer, thanks very much for your efforts, very well done.
I genuinely enjoy listening to how vast your knowledge is on an array of topics! Thank you for making videos and doing a superb job of explaining how things work!
Amazing the inventions that came out of Germany for the time. Way ahead of its time.
Great video, filmed and presented brilliantly. I will have to visit sometime.
I will too! “Train Driver Jim!” 👍🏼
So much better than a CGI video that most museums present! Thank you!
So impressive. Thank you for producing that video and I so hope your ‘mini museum’ has received the accolades befitting the passion that has obviously been invested into it. Good to see a reference to those who lost their lives in building those machines and what a clever transition from V2 to Shuttle at the end.
I am so glad I have found this channel.
Very nice exhibit (hands on rules) and a good tribute to those that died and were used as forced labor. It is such a shame that the A4 could not have been created for peace and not war, but as you said, it is what got humans to the Moon and is an important part of the story.
One of the things that got me interested in the V2 was the computer game Sniper Elite 5, which came out in 2022. The story deals with the German plan to fire V2s from submarines so they can use them against the east coast of the US. There are some very good views of V2 rockets, static and in flight, some pre-assembly parts, a rocket in a wind tunnel, and ground station controls.
Extremely well done! Bravo and thank you.
Well done and thank you !!!!
Thank you for these awesome videos!
beautifull setup and collection.
Great videos guys.
I have a small collection of V1 and V2 Relics. Would love to discuss your conservation techniques etc at some time.
Vielen Dank! Glad you like our work. Regards A&NTV
Hermann obert...
sorry for german....
Ich hatte 2002 im Oktober Gelegenheit, in Peenemünde mit einigen Mitarbeitern Werher von Braus zu sprechen.
Es war mehr als nur interessant, sowohl aus technischer als auch politischer Sicht.
Allesamt hochintelligente Menschen, für mich unvergessliche Eindrücke!
Danke für dieses und die anderen Videos zum Thema!!
Having just read "Operation Paperclip", I was thinking about the slave labor camps the entire time I was watching this. Kudos for including that as part of the display, and I hope to get to your side of the pond to see this display one day. (I'm in Houston... if you visited this area, we have some interesting rocketry displays also!)
Can you please tell me exactly where "The Wernher von Braun V2 Rocket Academy" is located? I would so much like to see it in person and have always admired the work of Dr. Wernher von Braun.
Awesome!
Another quality piece of film from this v gifted crew. Will be sure to visit next time I'm in the area.
Awesome Channel!!!! Much love from New Jersey!!!!!
buen trabajo de investigacion historica, gracias por ello
Well had whole evening on V2 rockets, very informative. Only taken nearly 10 years for me to view.
I have followed i think just about ever video this gentleman has made, bot as far as astronomy and all its requirement as well as his very in depth look at the V2 rocket.
I think that with regards to the latter, it all shows something that is in fact truly amazing, bearing in mind the time frame?
When people talk about have gotten assistance from somewhere else, i really tend to lkean toeards that as looked at from a worldly point of view we would all have to ask the question, "How come these people were in fact so far ahead of everyone else..
The sad part is that this was all developed for killing rather than the betterment of mankind, a point that looked at with real forthought begs the question just what would have happened if Germany had been able to start ww2 with this techomlogy in hand, i think the world would have been a very different place, one that none of us would have really been happy with.
This is ALL so well explained by this man who must have spent years actually looking at the details.
To the point of understanding it, when for most even the method of powering this rocket.
I spent twelve years of my live in the U.K. forces( navy) in a very unusual position purely by i think chance, and maybe a touch of enforced education by a ratger overbearing father who despite his unprodictable nature, was overall a very very clever man who insisted that i be their with him every time he did something, so my knowledge about engineering was almost fully developed prior to joining up, so much so that i did ratger live a rather charmed life during my service years, spending all of it doing something that was entirley new.
A small part of my time spent at what was then in its very infancy up in Scotland at a place called Faslane, tucked away from observant eyes more than anything else, this i feel was important as it was the very home of the first ever nulcear submarine the U.K. ever had, that was more than just interesting for someone with a mind for engineering plus the good helping of understanding about nuclear physics.
How ever in this instance there was a much more eye opening application going on there as if quite normal, that was the operation of two submarines that were experimental, they actually ran on H.T.P. which was produced there in the only building the place had.
My first encounter was the day one of these submarines came in after a tour of duty, it came in a little too fast and bumped into the jetty, this cause a rather masive jolt to the sub and somehow allowed a little more than usual use of H.T.P. and the sub actually blew its safety valve which was something that really caught my attention, and was something that is as clear in my mind today as the day it happened, my first question being where the hell did a submarine get all that steam????
Being interested i asked question and learnt a lot anout this means of power, clearly, this was an offshot of the techonolgy used in the V2, and applied to something else, to this day it amazes me that this took place
And i learnt that this fuel was stored in formed bags built into the construction as a giant pillow, this in a war machine that would in fact if required go into harms way, making the use of such a substance highly questionable to say the least as there was a huge amount of it.
Years after leaving the service i happened to work with an ex submariner, and asked him if he had ever served on either of the boats, he firstly even thought i was crazy as he had never heard of them and had never even heard their names, the Explorer and excalibur.
To this day i still have not found out who actually came up with this knowledge as to the use of such a very folatile mix, to say its enerjetic by nature, says nothing as to its actual behavour and nature.
Putting the same material into something that was to become airborn, was either an act of desparation or a advancement of technology far outside of the norm, and as we are aware that these rockets have a history that is dated back in the late 1930s says we were lucky that it was so volatile as to keep the use of it off the workbench for so many years, i say that not just in repsect of the V2, but also the rocket powered plain, which as we now all know was a deathtrap if you returned from flight with even a cupfull of this still on board, the chances of a safe landing were to say the least improbably.
It is this knowledge thaf really mames me wonder the end result of the flight of one of these Rockets taking into consideration the amount of H.T.P. carried and the fact it was impossible to determine weatger or not ALL the testoff had been used during flight bearing in mind the a cupful was enought to create havoc, and therefore makes the question as to how many of these in fact ended up blowing themselves up in mid air rather than impacting, a fact that i was more than surprised to watch the video of photos taken of what was considered a direct hit, when everything points to a mid air explosion, still causing vast amounts of damage, but leaving tge unanswered question og how much more damage would have taken place had it actually got to the point of impacked.
All in all, a very interesting number of very informative videos, very well presented, as are the videos on astronomy, a subject i have equiped my self for and also find incredible, despite the fact that we are now begining to understand just how little we really know about the universe, and making us question thing we have held as being 100 percent correct, only to find that this is not the case, and the answers to really strech out thinking to the limit.
Thanks for your attention to so much detail and a numver of videos that i think we should all lezrn something from.
a 1:54 t last A museum I can truly enjoy
I'm not only a rocket gig but a blind person so a hands on display would be awesome
Hope I can visit from NZ one day
Cheers
Hi there, and thanks for posting. The collection outgrew the original Space Shuttle home some years ago, and the shuttle has passed into a higher orbit! We donated it to a deserving astronomy outreach group in Sweden called the Sweden-Starlight Club - and they are making excellent use of it, introducing the night sky to young people. Engineering is a hands-on activity, and the more exhibits can be made available for tactile appreciation, the better. It is unfortunate that too many exhibits have to be behind rope barriers and glass. Currently, we are not open to the public - we have limited funding and can't do everything I'm afraid. Be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss anything. Thanks for your good wishes. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet Thanks for responding it's a shame the display is no longer active still I have your videos to enjoy and the dialogue in them is really good
Cheers
AWESOME!! very intressting
Awesome 👍😎
Thank you for the effort you put into making these excellant knowledge ridden history exerts
Thank u very much for the video! Very interesting, but few. )) Not 19 minutes but 19+ hours - the subject worth it! Show must go on!
Very very good!
Thanks a lot!
I must say, this is the first time I have watched videos on your channel and I am very impressed with the quality of your content and the absolute thoroughness of your presentation. Truly, it is a rarity to see someone care so much for what they do and express that same enthusiasm in sharing their knowledge with EVERYONE. If this message reaches you would you please If at all possible reply/contact and provide me with information on how to contribute to help your further research and community education..
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Cheers
Hi 'Bruce' and thanks for your kind message. We are trying to make the move into creating more self-supporting video content. We had not long started this process before C-19 forced a period of firefighting in other parts of our business activity (we're not alone there!). We plan to get back on track with Patreon and other funding options as soon as we can next year. but for now, all we have is the PayPal option tucked away, perhaps too discreetly, on the lower right of our RUclips channel masthead. Kind regards RJD A&NTV
Love it!👍🏼
@AstronomyAndNatureTV Well, I hope you have the opportunity to see the episode, just so you know what I'm talking about!
Fantastic !! where do you find all the V2 part !! Congratulations , I hope you will come in France for exhibition ! V2 was terrific according my mother who lived in England during WWII. Very interesting .. Bravo
Super!
'An engineers petting zoo'! lol.
Actually, I would actually be interested in how many times the word "actually" is actually mentioned in this video. ;)
Still, a very interesting introduction, actually. Even though I actually watched it out of sequence, it was still helpful.
Good work, Robert and production crew!
All levity aside, with respect to the forced labour program, it's also interesting to read about the very clever efforts of these hapless individuals, to come up with ingenious methods of sabotaging the V2 so that it would never reach the intended target. The German efforts to investigate failures and their utterly ruthless responses to any detected or suspected sabotage can be imagined. So the saboteurs became increasingly sophisticated in creating points of failure that looked entirely natural or accidental.
Very interisting
I wonder if anyone can help regarding how the rocket was guided or steered? I think it's the case that one set of vans on the rocket maintained the missile on a set heading and the other set of vanes maintained the attitude, which changed during the flight path. But I was wondering how the rocket didn't rotate either a little or a lot about its axis during flight? A little bit of misalignment of the rocket motor or rigging of the fins perhaps? If the rocket rotated a little then the fins would not work as described?
FWIW: Regarding what's mentioned at the end of this vid, I personally feel that von Braun "SOLD HIS SOUL FOR ROCK 'N' ROLL". Only it wasn't rock 'n' roll, it was really "ROCK-ETRY"....
you would have done the same thing if you were brought up in Germany
Great display and vid - I wish you guys were closer to me! I thought the music and lyrics from Donnie Darko at the end and the V2 changing to the Shuttle summed it up well. The V2, terrible and brilliant at the same time.
Has anybody got a clue where I can get detailed drawings of the propulsion system?
Respect and condolences from India 🇮🇳 towards the forced labours.
Hi there. First try v2rocket.com as it has a useful reading guide and plenty of detail about the V2/A4. For drawings try digipeer.de but you'll probably need to equip yourself with a few technical names of parts in German to navigate the site usefully. I hope this helps. Kind regards RJD
Love V2s I have a bunch of models.
Well now that I saw this very detailed video why would I want to go see the exhibit? Just kidding, this is awesome!! Where can I see it?
Thanks for a different take on the V2 engineering. I may not have watched the relevant clip to satisfy my curiosity about how the rocket was actually steered. The function of the gyroscopic system is detailed, however the gyros served to stabilize the rocket's direction and would need to be overcome if their direction is to be changed from purely vertical to directing on a ballistic course to their target. How was this done? Were the directions and timing built into the guidance system beforehand? It seems that would require some sort of memory system, i.e. some kind of computing power when no such device existed. Instead, was the rocket controlled from the ground through some kind of telemetry communications? Obviously, these details are crucial.
Shame you didn't get an answer. As far as the various easy access information I've found goes; the fin aerodynamic is not symmetrical and that's why numbered. So rotate table in direction of target. There was some kind of mixer. For gyro input. Maybe program sequence. Accuracy +-10 miles over 150 miles is crappy enough to just run out of fuel?
Is it still possible to visit The Wernher Von Braun Rocket Academy?
It is a great video collection of a human best achievements in engineering and science philosophy!..... Thanks & Greetings from Lima....p.s. Rocket isn´t infamous....infamous is the human being when use it wrong....
Simply cannot wait to pay a visit... but does one have to pay for a visit? If yes, how much is it?
Hi, I maybe a bit thick but i can not find the address of your new site. The old site The Wernher von Braun V2 Rocket Academy Lancaster way business park (looks a very different building) my google search listed it as permanently closed! Can i have the address of the new site which i would really like to visit. Your videos are brilliant they have answered so many of my questions. Thanks,
Excellent ! Very magnanimous of an Englishman to commemorate & honor von Braun. As to the use of Slave Labor at Dora - Nordhausen ( underground factory in the Herz Mtn.s for mass production of the.V2 after Peene Munde was bombed to smithereens by the RAF ) there were a lot of precedence of using Slave Labor in the Anglo Saxon world too, in several continents. Since WW II the Germans have become very repentant & compensated the Slave labor families !but we are still waiting for that to happen in the Red States of the US. Things are actually getting worse by the year as some among the once dominant White majority are losing faith in democracy ( one man one vote, a win by a single vote is still a win ) as the demography shifts to more non Whites. So let us not be too sanctimonious in order to appear politically correct, let us just stick to the Science & Engr. for a change. Brenn Schluss !
How about Dr Robert H Gorddard? May be a little bit about him.
@ferrett78 It all our own I promise you! At first we thought you had perp'ed a typo - but we realise you really do mean KFC the purveyors of fried chicken rather than KSC the purveyors of manned space flight! I don't think we've seen the advertorial item you are referring to. I've checked with management and we will not be dispensing fried chicken from our shuttle any time soon. Pity really. KR A&NC
🚀 well done, jolly good, a primer for the rockets early development phase. The liquid propellent delivery systems were a challenge to overcome but were done so quite effectively. Of course all that volatility was a constant danger.
Stabilization, guidance, ignition, fueling, assembly and welding techniques, fuselage materials all problems to solve.
See the mighty Saturn V at launch to get a taste of the harnessing of power. 7,500,000 pounds of thrusting force at work on the maned lifting body.
When one considers the short time frame of its development and successful deployment it really is quite astonishing. Of course the monetary aspect is equally so.
Mankind is a dichotomy of brilliance and foolhardiness. For rocketry can be used for great good or great destructivity.
I heard or read somewhere that more people died making A-4 rockets than were killed by V2 attacks. Is this true, or is it an urban myth? Thanks.
apparently they used slave labour to assemble the rockets according to some groups who always try to negatively depict the Germans.
Having slave labour building this high-tech piece of equipment is like General Dynamics or NASA using ISIS prisoners to build their equipment.
@@expansionone Check out the other videos, picture of slave/forced labour exist. The Germans employed slave labour in many of their war production industries. Tank production was another famous example and many of their tank failures in the battlefield could be traced to assemblies and components being sabotaged by the workers. (Like con-rod bolts being under torqued in the engines)
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So far advanced and yet look at history. Almost as if this was all allowed to happen, so the tech could be used by the awaiting American rocket scientists etc.
How come we didn't see him at the Nuremberg trials?
Anyone else notice a strange similarity to the KFC space simulator from the "Community" episode, "Basic Rocket Science" ? :-)
Those plug show at 4:20 is still a industrial Standard today.
Look:
b2b.harting.com/ebusiness/de/STAF-20-STI-S/09700202622
And Harting was the inventor of it , now they are made by diffent companies
You know I love all these v2 videos, but that picture at the end of all those slave laborers working on the parts really sunk it home on how terrible the toll it took on people to make it work, all for what?
I just visited the Huntsville rocket center and they had a nice v2 display. Full size rocket and engine cut view. They had von brand actual slide rule he used at penamude.
Great education, but I disagree that the destruction caused by the use of the weapon is justified by what the Allies were doing to try to defeat the Nazis. War is brutal, which is why it should not be started. However, if that is not opposed, the tyrants will rule.
Father of the NASA was Wernher von braun, he was a war german WW2 criminals that joined the Nazi HITLER Party of the NSDAP in 30' XX, he contributed to the deaths of many thousands of people with his V2 rockets and even more of his concentration camp in Mittelbau-Dora in Germany where workers were starving!
How did you put it all together that you owe it all to a war criminal who, instead of putting him in prison, allowed him to race against the Russians of space conquest, not even saving life or something?
More fitting NASA acronym are: Nazis Aeronautics Space Administration
NASA is just NACA with the addition of space stuff
you would have joined to everyone would love to think that they would have fought the Nazis while they lived in Germany but the fact of the matter is there's a 99% chance you would have gone along
Your hero was a war criminal and should have been jailed.
Which one, Biggles or Sherlock Holmes? They were both fictional though, so jail time will be tricky - and with the possible exception of my Dad and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, I have no other heros. KR RJD A&NTV