Hobbes said:Interesting. So the top half of the second stage was silver. Does that include the top surface of the wings?
He offered me a watch too!!! (And his iPad, as he didn't like Apple products…) I'll DM you!!!blackstar said:antigravite said:Yes, thank you. Very good find. I had very close connections to Sänger's son, Hartmut (who passed away in december 2015). We shared a lot but we never discussed this early article. Although I had privileged access to all archives for a research project. Thank you again.
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About eight years ago I met Hartmut. German TV was doing a special about spaceflight and for some reason Hartmut suggested that they interview me. So for reasons that make no sense to me they flew me over to Germany and I appeared on German TV. Hartmut then gave me a watch that I still wear today. What I did not realize at the time was that it was a very good watch. So Hartmut's a cool guy in my book. I was sorry to hear of his passing.
blackstar said:I did not have a watch, so I accepted the gift and started wearing it. I like it. A few years ago I was at an electronic music concert and I was buying a CD from a musician (Robert Rich, if you want to know). He noticed my watch and asked to look at it. I said that it was a gift and he said "It must be from a very good friend." I asked him why. Then he told me that the watch was probably worth $800.
I guess Hartmut liked watches.
I occasionally show people my watch and tell them that it was given to me by the son of the guy who wanted to build a spaceplane to nuke New York City.
The Germans had high-temperature metals unknown in the US.
Sänger-Bredt rocket bomber
etc.
Having read and photographed the original report on Saenger's Raketenantrieb fuer Fernbomber, see attached, I can confidently say that most of the above account is entirely speculative. The design is never referred to, for example, as 'Rabo'.
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I say 'photographed', looking though my files I believe I actually scanned every single page of it...
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It's been a hwile I've been here. Can't seem to find the revell kit mentionned on the first page and takom got 2 out . I wonder how accurate their kit is to the report https://www.super-hobby.fr/products...l-Suborbital-Bomber-Atomic-Payload-Suite.html
The Revell kit is a model of the 1980's Sänger II "revival" concept of an HTHL TSTO RLV design by then Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), which was an airbreathing update of the 1960's Sänger I HTHL TSTO rocket propelled RLV that in turn was inspired by the original suborbital Sänger Silbervogel design study. While the kit is in general a reasonably representative rendition of the Sänger II configuration, its connection to the Silbervogel is in the Sänger name only, being two design generations removed, so it has no direct relation to the Takom kit. Note also that the Revell kit, while providing a fairly accurate overall representation of the Sänger II shape, has a major blooper in the representation of the airbreathing propulsion section of the lower stage by featuring six exhaust ducts for the turboramjet engines, but only five air intake ducts.It's been a hwile I've been here. Can't seem to find the revell kit mentionned on the first page and takom got 2 out . I wonder how accurate their kit is to the report https://www.super-hobby.fr/products...l-Suborbital-Bomber-Atomic-Payload-Suite.html