The Wernher von Braun V2 Rocket Academy

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As an engineer, i am always amazed that the main part of any rocket is the ability to push the two fuels into a burner chamber. I have always be rather surprised that nobody ever took a good hard look at what was going on in as far as the power to drive the fuel pump and tbe fact that the very power to do so was in fact coming out of the rocket as its pushing power, when a small unit that could be ignited and it exhaust added to the outflow within the engine so nothing is wasted. The object of the exercise it to first get the turbine to turn and gain speed, it is noted the pre ignition started with gravity feed, small that this maybe it is more than enough to turn the turbine, and anyone having been present when spooling up a turbine will tell you, it happens quiet quickly, not only this but it also helps to ensure combustion in the main chamber, this does away with a sepetate form of energy to run the turbine and any need to build any forn of exhaust for same as it just goes through the main burner camber, the very start of these two pumps is clearly seen as being very fast as soon as fuel starts entering the main chamber, the use of same being fed to drive the pumps starts to increase the speed of the turbine is also speeded up thereby driving more fuel into the main chamber, its self feeding, and includes the ability to throttle the whole engine, and most imporantly reduces waste energy to zero. It has been something that has puzzled me for ages that they never were aware that this works, yet the V1 flying bomb was clearly self propelled in terms of the engine running itself despite the booster rockets that helped it up to speed off thr ramp. All in all a very interesting set of videos, very well introduced to the viewer, thanks very much for your efforts, very well done.

I genuinely enjoy listening to how vast your knowledge is on an array of topics! Thank you for making videos and doing a superb job of explaining how things work!

Amazing the inventions that came out of Germany for the time. Way ahead of its time.

So impressive. Thank you for producing that video and I so hope your ‘mini museum’ has received the accolades befitting the passion that has obviously been invested into it. Good to see a reference to those who lost their lives in building those machines and what a clever transition from V2 to Shuttle at the end.

beautifull setup and collection.

So much better than a CGI video that most museums present! Thank you!

Great video, filmed and presented brilliantly. I will have to visit sometime.

Extremely well done! Bravo and thank you.

Thank you for these awesome videos!

I am so glad I have found this channel.

Very nice exhibit (hands on rules) and a good tribute to those that died and were used as forced labor. It is such a shame that the A4 could not have been created for peace and not war, but as you said, it is what got humans to the Moon and is an important part of the story.

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Well done and thank you !!!!

Awesome Channel!!!! Much love from New Jersey!!!!!

Awesome!

I have followed i think just about ever video this gentleman has made, bot as far as astronomy and all its requirement as well as his very in depth look at the V2 rocket. I think that with regards to the latter, it all shows something that is in fact truly amazing, bearing in mind the time frame? When people talk about have gotten assistance from somewhere else, i really tend to lkean toeards that as looked at from a worldly point of view we would all have to ask the question, "How come these people were in fact so far ahead of everyone else.. The sad part is that this was all developed for killing rather than the betterment of mankind, a point that looked at with real forthought begs the question just what would have happened if Germany had been able to start ww2 with this techomlogy in hand, i think the world would have been a very different place, one that none of us would have really been happy with. This is ALL so well explained by this man who must have spent years actually looking at the details. To the point of understanding it, when for most even the method of powering this rocket. I spent twelve years of my live in the U.K. forces( navy) in a very unusual position purely by i think chance, and maybe a touch of enforced education by a ratger overbearing father who despite his unprodictable nature, was overall a very very clever man who insisted that i be their with him every time he did something, so my knowledge about engineering was almost fully developed prior to joining up, so much so that i did ratger live a rather charmed life during my service years, spending all of it doing something that was entirley new. A small part of my time spent at what was then in its very infancy up in Scotland at a place called Faslane, tucked away from observant eyes more than anything else, this i feel was important as it was the very home of the first ever nulcear submarine the U.K. ever had, that was more than just interesting for someone with a mind for engineering plus the good helping of understanding about nuclear physics. How ever in this instance there was a much more eye opening application going on there as if quite normal, that was the operation of two submarines that were experimental, they actually ran on H.T.P. which was produced there in the only building the place had. My first encounter was the day one of these submarines came in after a tour of duty, it came in a little too fast and bumped into the jetty, this cause a rather masive jolt to the sub and somehow allowed a little more than usual use of H.T.P. and the sub actually blew its safety valve which was something that really caught my attention, and was something that is as clear in my mind today as the day it happened, my first question being where the hell did a submarine get all that steam???? Being interested i asked question and learnt a lot anout this means of power, clearly, this was an offshot of the techonolgy used in the V2, and applied to something else, to this day it amazes me that this took place And i learnt that this fuel was stored in formed bags built into the construction as a giant pillow, this in a war machine that would in fact if required go into harms way, making the use of such a substance highly questionable to say the least as there was a huge amount of it. Years after leaving the service i happened to work with an ex submariner, and asked him if he had ever served on either of the boats, he firstly even thought i was crazy as he had never heard of them and had never even heard their names, the Explorer and excalibur. To this day i still have not found out who actually came up with this knowledge as to the use of such a very folatile mix, to say its enerjetic by nature, says nothing as to its actual behavour and nature. Putting the same material into something that was to become airborn, was either an act of desparation or a advancement of technology far outside of the norm, and as we are aware that these rockets have a history that is dated back in the late 1930s says we were lucky that it was so volatile as to keep the use of it off the workbench for so many years, i say that not just in repsect of the V2, but also the rocket powered plain, which as we now all know was a deathtrap if you returned from flight with even a cupfull of this still on board, the chances of a safe landing were to say the least improbably. It is this knowledge thaf really mames me wonder the end result of the flight of one of these Rockets taking into consideration the amount of H.T.P. carried and the fact it was impossible to determine weatger or not ALL the testoff had been used during flight bearing in mind the a cupful was enought to create havoc, and therefore makes the question as to how many of these in fact ended up blowing themselves up in mid air rather than impacting, a fact that i was more than surprised to watch the video of photos taken of what was considered a direct hit, when everything points to a mid air explosion, still causing vast amounts of damage, but leaving tge unanswered question og how much more damage would have taken place had it actually got to the point of impacked. All in all, a very interesting number of very informative videos, very well presented, as are the videos on astronomy, a subject i have equiped my self for and also find incredible, despite the fact that we are now begining to understand just how little we really know about the universe, and making us question thing we have held as being 100 percent correct, only to find that this is not the case, and the answers to really strech out thinking to the limit. Thanks for your attention to so much detail and a numver of videos that i think we should all lezrn something from.

Another quality piece of film from this v gifted crew. Will be sure to visit next time I'm in the area.

Vielen Dank! Glad you like our work. Regards A&NTV

One of the things that got me interested in the V2 was the computer game Sniper Elite 5, which came out in 2022. The story deals with the German plan to fire V2s from submarines so they can use them against the east coast of the US. There are some very good views of V2 rockets, static and in flight, some pre-assembly parts, a rocket in a wind tunnel, and ground station controls.