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Schmidding SG 34
The Schmidding SG 34 (109-533) was a German World War II-era solid-fuelled rocket motor. Four SG 34s were used on the Bachem Ba 349 Natter to provide extra thrust for launching. Design and development The Bachem Ba 349 Natter was originally designed with Schmidding SR 34 rocket boosters however these were upgraded to the more powerful 1,200kg thrust SG 34s in December of 1944. The SG 34 was manufactured by Schmidding Werke at the company's factory in Děčín located in the modern day Czech Republic. Four SG 34 solid fuel rocket boosters were fitted to the prototype Bachem Natter. The booter rockets were designed to augment the thrust from the Natter's single Walter HWK 509 The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German liquid-fuel bipropellant rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Bachem Ba 349 aircraft. It was produced by Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (HWK) commencing in 1943, with licensed p ... engine and were most likely released by explosive sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachem Natter
The Bachem Ba 349 Natter ( en, Colubridae, Colubrid, grass-snake) was a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor aircraft, interceptor, which was to be used in a very similar way to a manned surface-to-air missile. After a vertical take-off, which eliminated the need for airfields, most of the flight to the Allied bombers was to be controlled by an autopilot. The primary role of the relatively untrained pilot was to aim the aircraft at its target bomber and fire its armament of rockets. The pilot and the fuselage containing the rocket motor would then land using separate parachutes, while the nose section was disposable. The first and only manned vertical take-off flight, on 1 March 1945, ended in the death of the test pilot, Lothar Sieber. Development Background In 1943, ''Luftwaffe'' air superiority was being challenged by the Allies defence of the Reich, over the ''Reich'' and radical innovations were required to overcome the crisis. Surface-to-air missile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Schmidding
Wilhelm Schmidding from Bodenbach, Germany, was a World War II constructor of rocket engines used for RATO. Factories were in Schmiedeberg, and from summer 1943, in Buschvorwerk (Riesengebirge, Niederschlesien, today Krzaczyna). Engines * Schmidding 109-513, two solid fuel fitted to the Henschel Hs 293H anti-ship missile. * Schmidding 109-533, four jettisonable RATO (1.200 kp, 11,768 kN, 10 seconds) fitted to the Bachem Ba 349 point defence vertical takeoff (VTO) interceptor. * Schmidding 109-543, rocket motor for the Henschel Hs 298 guided bomb. * Schmidding 109-553, Solid-fuel rocket booster used for the Henschel Hs 117 "Schmetterling" surface-to-air guided missile. * Schmidding 109-563, RATOG booster. * Schmidding 109-573, underwater propulsion gas generator. * Schmidding 109-593, RATOG booster. * Schmidding 109-603, fitted to the 8-344 Ruhrstahl X-4 air-to-air missile. Applications *Bachem Ba 349 *Henschel Hs 117 *Henschel Hs 293H variant *Henschel Hs 298 *Ruhrstahl X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JATO
JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off) is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets. The term ''JATO'' is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for ''rocket-assisted take-off'' (or, in Royal Air Force, RAF parlance, RATOG, for ''rocket-assisted take-off gear''). Early experiments and World War II In 1927 the Soviet research and development laboratory Gas Dynamics Laboratory developed solid-propellant rockets to assist aircraft take-off and in 1931 the world's first successful use of rockets to assist take-off of aircraft were carried out on a :ru:У-1, U-1, the Soviet Union military aircraft designation systems, Soviet designation for a Avro 504 trainer, which achieved about one hundred successful assisted takeoffs. Successful assisted takeoffs were also achieved on the Tupolev TB-1. and Tupolev TB-3 Heavy Bombers. The official test of the Tupolev TB-1 in 1933 shorten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachem Ba 349 Natter
The Bachem Ba 349 Natter ( en, Colubridae, Colubrid, grass-snake) was a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor aircraft, interceptor, which was to be used in a very similar way to a manned surface-to-air missile. After a vertical take-off, which eliminated the need for airfields, most of the flight to the Allied bombers was to be controlled by an autopilot. The primary role of the relatively untrained pilot was to aim the aircraft at its target bomber and fire its armament of rockets. The pilot and the fuselage containing the rocket motor would then land using separate parachutes, while the nose section was disposable. The first and only manned vertical take-off flight, on 1 March 1945, ended in the death of the test pilot, Lothar Sieber. Development Background In 1943, ''Luftwaffe'' air superiority was being challenged by the Allies defence of the Reich, over the ''Reich'' and radical innovations were required to overcome the crisis. Surface-to-air missile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Děčín
Děčín (; german: Tetschen, 1942–1945: ''Tetschen–Bodenbach'') is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 47,000 inhabitants. It is the 7th largest municipality in the country by area. Administrative parts Děčín is made up of 35 city parts and villages: *Děčín I-Děčín *Děčín II-Nové Město *Děčín III-Staré Město *Děčín IV-Podmokly *Děčín V-Rozbělesy *Děčín VI-Letná *Děčín VII-Chrochvice *Děčín VIII-Dolní Oldřichov *Děčín IX-Bynov *Děčín X-Bělá *Děčín XI-Horní Žleb *Děčín XII-Vilsnice *Děčín XIII-Loubí *Děčín XIV-Dolní Žleb *Děčín XV-Prostřední Žleb *Děčín XVI-Přípeř *Děčín XVII-Jalůvčí *Děčín XVIII-Maxičky *Děčín XIX-Čechy *Děčín XX-Nová Ves *Děčín XXI-Horní Oldřichov *Děčín XXII-Václavov *Děčín XXIII-Popovice *Děčín XXIV-Krásný Studenec *Děčín XXV-Chmelnice *Děčín XXVI-Bechlejovice *Děčín XXVII-Březiny *Děčín XXVIII-Folkn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under Great Moravia. It was formally recognized as an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire in 1002 and became a kingdom in 1198. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule. With the dissolution of the Holy Empire in 1806, the Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter HWK 109-509
The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German liquid-fuel bipropellant rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Bachem Ba 349 aircraft. It was produced by Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (HWK) commencing in 1943, with licensed production by the Heinkel firm's facilities in Jenbach, Austria. Design and development Early versions of the Me 163 had been powered by an earlier design running on a "cold engine" fueled with Z-Stoff. This fuel tended to clog the jets in the combustion chamber, causing fluctuations in power and potentially explosions. Worse, however, was the fact that the engine could not be throttled, and when the aircraft leveled off after its climb to altitude it quickly accelerated to speeds that caused serious compressibility issues. The RLM demanded that a version be developed with a throttle. During this period Walter had also been working with a new fuel known as C-Stoff that gave off significant heat and was thus known as the "hot engine". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachem Aircraft
Bachem Holding AG is a Swiss technology company active in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry and pharmaceuticals. It develops products and services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and research. Bachem is specialized in the commercial production of peptides and complex organic compounds as active pharmaceutical ingredients, in the production of peptide-based biochemicals and in the development of manufacturing processes for these compounds. Founded in 1971, the company is headquartered in Bubendorf, Canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. In addition to the Bubendorf site, Bachem has another large production site in Switzerland in Vionnaz in the canton of Valais. Further production sites are located in the USA in the Californian cities of Vista and Torrance and in Great Britain in St Helens near Liverpool. An additional sales and distribution site is located in Tokyo (Japan). At the end of 2018, Bachem Holding AG had 1140 employees worldwide, generated sales of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aircraft Rocket Engines
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, helicopters, airships (including blimps), gliders, paramotors, and hot air balloons. The human activity that surrounds aircraft is called ''aviation''. The science of aviation, including designing and building aircraft, is called ''aeronautics.'' Crewed aircraft are flown by an onboard pilot, but unmanned aerial vehicles may be remotely controlled or self-controlled by onboard computers. Aircraft may be classified by different criteria, such as lift type, aircraft propulsion, usage and others. History Flying model craft and stories of manned flight go back many centuries; however, the first manned ascent — and safe descent — in modern times took place by larger hot-air ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
