Bob Lee’s Reviews > Breaking the Chains of Gravity > Status Update
Bob Lee
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This is a book about rocketry before NASA. Some of these guys were nuts -- ex. early rocket put nose-down into a bucket of water for cooling with the nozzle sticking up. Assistant ignites by tossing a flaming rag into the nozzle. Improvement? Years later Werner von Braun used a lit can of gasoline on a 12 foot pole! Loved the photo of the Opel RAK 2 rocket car (RAK 1 was 1928!)
— Apr 19, 2016 09:22AM
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Bob Lee
is on page 170 of 304
On to X-1, X-2 and X-15. I didn't know much about those early rocketplane activities. Didn't know on another flight, Yeager was told not to go over Mach 2.3 and he did, ship tumbled, his helmet broke the canopy and then fogged, he pulled it out of the tumble/spin at 25,000 feet. Also, X-15 design had a tail on top and bottom - solution to not be the 'fastest plow' on landing to blow off the bottom fin? Wait, What??
— Apr 23, 2016 09:15AM
