Re: A-9 landing procedure



scottlowther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 28, 6:16 pm, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(in fact, the manned A9 concept
was one of the things that led to the creation of the X-15).

According to whom?

According to what I read, the basic idea of the X-15 came up during a road trip, when two engineers heard about a successful Viking launch over the radio in the car, and started shooting the breeze about what a manned Viking could do with someone riding in the front end and wings on the side.
Once you'd read the articles (like the one cited from 1947) about a manned, winged, V-2...it doesn't take much imagination about where that idea came from...it was running around in a back of a lot of people's heads from the first moment they had heard about it. It sure shows up in a lot of space books from the late 1940's to the mid 1950's, like Chesley Bonestell's famous painting of a scaled-up A9 on the moon: http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr121/im/bonestell-moon.gif


The guidance system would need to be retained, so it would have to be
moved forward.
On the A9 they moved it back between the propellant tanks, as the
cutaway shows:http://www.pp.htv.fi/jwestman/images/a9-skiss.jpg

How certain are you of that, based as it seems to be one one small
onlinecutaway drawing?

We've run into this situation before; that cutaway comes from the historical archives of the Smithsonian Institution:
http://www.pp.htv.fi/jwestman/space/nazispace.html
You, on the other hand seem to re-write the history of the past into a world where the Antipodal Bomber can be ready to go in 1945, the Dyna-Soar makes more sense than a ICBM, and most intriguing of all, how pagan Vikings were a lot more tolerant and better people than the Christians who supplanted their religion over time; because it made for a lot more stable society than they had early on in their aggressive days sacrificing people to Odin or Wotan.
You are one very odd, and very singular person in you're interpretation of past history.
This is downright weird, and knowing the history of your life and the evolution of your philosophical outlook that got you where you are today would be fascinating.


The production A9 was intended to be longer than the A4b in the
cylindrical body section

According to whom?

Well, take a look at the two wartime images of its innards; the A9 is longer than the A4b.
It really surprises me that someone who has all the drawings of such exotic designs as the X-15 Ejector Ramjet Engine or the flying-wing nuclear-powered bomber doesn't have a better background regarding th A4 and its history, despite it having been written about in detail for over half a century.
That's also assuming a stock V-2 engine; the A9 was intended to use
hypergolic propellants in a new engine

Wrong.

You can argue about propellant mixtures as much as you want, but they did come up with a single injector V-2 engine during the war; I'm trying to track down a photo of this on the web (I've got around ten photos of the actual engine in my V-2 related missile books) but here's at least a cutaway drawing showing it: http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/VZ/V2.png

You're starting to read like Arndt. Easy acceptance of things found
online.

I must apologize to Thor during the first thunderstorm of this spring.
Hopefully, he won't blow his red beard out against me too severely, so that the daughters of Hel don't raise too dangerous of waves against me in my toilet bowl.
I've already run into the Midgard Serpent lying there in wait more than once, raising the lower seas as it stoppered them with its girth, and it took the work of Baldur's magic plunger to send it on its way back to Utgard.

Pat
.

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