Memorial Hall Library

Retro rockets, experimental rockets 1926-1941, Peter Alway

eng

Contains bibliographical references (bibliography: p. 92-93) and index (p. 94-95)

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Retro rockets

36848652

Peter Alway

experimental rockets 1926-1941

"It is the aim of this book to bring the rockets themselves to the modeling public. The stories of the rocketeers of the 1930's are told to give the rockets a historical context.... I have made an effort to provide drawings of every liquid-propelled vertical-ascent rocket flown before World War II.... A few notable solid-fueled rockets are [also] included" --Introduction

Introduction -- Robert Hutchings Goddard -- American Rocket Society -- Early German Solid Propellant Rocketry -- Johannes Winkler and the VfR -- The VfR at the Raketenflugplatz -- Wernher von Braun and the German Army -- GIRD -- Len-GIRD -- RNII: Jet Propulsion Research Institute -- KB-7 of RNII -- Model Plans -- Constant-scale diagram