Tony, I have a couple of spare brass gear wheels that fix onto the airscrew lever,(on the throttle box) let me know via the usual channels; please note that I no longer accept incoming carrier pigeon,(we’ve all got to move with the times)…

So, you cannot hit any useful target, but you can aim specifically at civilians? I didn’t know the V-2 was so precise. When they hit a factory it was collateral damage I guess.

I never said that they couldn’t be aimed at industrial targets, just that they weren’t; London, wasn’t a centre of manufacturing, in the same way thay other cities in the UK were, but thats where they ended up.

The V2 like its predecessor the V1 were designed as terror weapons, “vengeance weapons”; they were cowardly weapons not aimed at troups, but at their loved ones, and at no risk to the user (other than it falling over)

If Albert Speer, and Rudolf Hess, were indicted, and convicted of war crimes(the latter having spent most of the war a prisoner in England), then Von Braun should have joined them, in the dock.

I believe that Goerring is quoted as saying ,that the victors will write history; had they have won the war, the likes of Roy Chadwick would have almost certainly met a similar fate.

There is no point in looking at the actions of either sides, (during the war),from a modern day perspective, attitudes have changed hugely, most of us debating this issue have never, and will never live through such horror; who are we to judge?

Did he not realise that all those V2’s fired at London (and other cities) were full of explosive,and aimed a civillians? I think he was lucky to escape an indictment for war crimes.

Yes, I can. 🙂

But that is only 30 hours work at commercial rate plus material.

Make me the early aluminium bucket version for that.

Nobody has successfully replicated the SRBP bucket, to flight standard, to my knowledge.

Mark

will do, how would you like to pay….

“I’m only two years older”; a likely story….

Not so much Rolls-Royce as Dr. Stanley Hooker.

Rolls-Royce employed him, not knowing what he could do – and neither did he. It was extremely fortunate that all his previous pure research equipped him to become probably the world’s leading expert on supercharging.

I believe that first and foremost, Hooker was a mathematician, his book “Not much of an engineer” seems to be characteristic of his self effacing attitude, and having seen him in a few interviews, he had a sense of humour (not typical in his field of expertise); he once said about Whittles engine, that he was able to build a compressor equal to that of Whittles, several attempts were worse, but he could never better it, high praise from a great man.

Don’t forget the BAPC 40th anniversary weekend next october – join and come to Derby!

Is that an invitation or a threat?

Anyway, none of us are bidding on it, right guys?…….guys?