GERMAN V-2 ROCKET TESTS AT WHITE SANDS NEW MEXICO 2535
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This historic film shows tests of German V-2 rockets by the U.S. Army which were conducted from 1946-1952. Assisting in the efforts were a number of German scientists who emigrated to New Mexico as part of "Operation Paperclip."
German V-2 rockets captured by the United States Army at the end of World War II were used as sounding rockets to carry scientific instruments into the earth's upper atmosphere at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) for a program of atmospheric and solar investigation through the late 1940s. Rocket trajectory was intended to carry the rocket about 100 miles (160 km) high and 30 miles (48 km) horizontally from WSMR Launch Complex 33. Impact velocity of returning rockets was reduced by inducing structural failure of the rocket airframe upon atmospheric re-entry. More durable recordings and instruments might be recovered from the rockets after ground impact, but telemetry was developed to transmit and record instrument readings during flight.
The first of 300 railroad cars of V-2 rocket components began to arrive at Las Cruces, New Mexico in July 1945 for transfer to WSMR.[2]:246 In November General Electric (GE) employees began to identify, sort, and reassemble V-2 rocket components in WSMR Building 1538, designated as WSMR Assembly Building 1. The Army completed a blockhouse in WSMR Launch Area 1 in September 1945. WSMR Launch Complex 33 for the captured V-2s was built around this blockhouse.
Initial V-2 assembly efforts produced 25 rockets available for launch. The Army assembled an Upper Atmosphere Research Panel of representative from the Air Material Command, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Army Signal Corps, Ballistic Research Laboratory, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Michigan, Harvard University, Princeton University, and General Electric Company. German rocket scientists of Operation Paperclip arrived at Fort Bliss in January 1946 to assist the V-2 rocket testing program. After a static test firing of a V-2 engine on 15 March 1946, the first V-2 rocket launch from Launch Complex 33 was on 16 April 1946. As the possibilities of the program were realized, GE personnel built new control components to replace deteriorated parts and used replacement parts with salvaged materials to make more than 75 V-2 sounding rockets available for atmospheric and solar investigation at WSMR. Approximately two V-2 launches per month were scheduled from Launch Complex 33 until the supply of V-2 sounding rockets was exhausted; reduced frequency of V-2 sounding rocket investigations from Launch Complex 33 continued until 1952.
The 2,200 pounds (1,000 kg) explosive warhead in the 17 cubic feet (0.48 m3) nose cone was replaced by a package of instrumentation averaging 1,200 pounds (540 kg). Instrumentation was sometimes added to the control compartment, in the rear motor section, between the fuel tanks, or on the fins or skin of the rocket. Nose cone instrumentation was typically assembled at participating laboratories and flown to WSMR to be joined to the rocket in Assembly Building 1.
Rockets returning to earth intact created an impact crater about 80 feet (24 m) wide and of similar depth which filled with debris to a depth of about 35 feet (11 m). In an effort to preserve instruments, dynamite was strategically placed within the airframe to be detonated at an elevation of 50 kilometres (31 mi) during downward flight at end of the high-altitude scientific observation interval. These explosives weakened the rocket structure so it would be torn apart by aerodynamic forces as it re-entered the denser lower atmosphere. Terminal velocity of tumbling fragments was reduced by an order of magnitude.
V-2 sounding rockets were 47 feet (14 m) long and 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) in diameter and weighed 28,000 pounds (13,000 kg) with a full load of liquid fuel contributing two-thirds of that weight. The fuel was consumed in the first minute of flight producing a thrust of 56,000 pounds-force (250 kN). Maximum acceleration of 6 Gs was reached at minimum fuel weight just before burnout, and vibrational accelerations were of similar magnitude during powered flight. Velocity at burnout was approximately 5,000 feet (1,500 m) per second. The rocket would typically have a small, unpredictable angular momentum at burnout causing unpredictable roll with pitch or yaw as it coasted upward approximately 75 miles (121 km). A typical flight provided an observation window of 5 minutes at altitudes above 35 miles (56 km).
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com
My dad worked at Los Alamos from I1943 to 1945. He witnessed the Trinity blast and after the war he worked at White Sands Missile Proving Range. He was disabled in the mid-50’s and passed away in the mid-70’s. He would never talk about what he did. He was a civilian worker who was classified as a critical worker due to his electrical knowledge.
I love that you can see the development from this to today's launchpads.
My Dad was involved with this project. He was head of the metorology department of the Army.
Kinda fun correlating this transport 7:20 with the Saturn V being rolled out to the pad.
10:48 "Last minute adjustments are made..." with a file. lol
imagine... a time when humans had to adjust the product of a machine to ensure perfection.... now nothing a human does is accepted as perfection until checked by a machine.....
When I worked at WSMR 2002-2009 I periodically went down to the blockhouse ("ARMY" written across its face) and saw all those old cables in their sluices still in place. There was one of the old V-2s standing right next to a gantry. A lot of the old equipment is still there, too.
I was there from 2014 to 2017 we cleaned out lots of equipment from the Navy blockhouse. Still lots of cool stuff out there even today,just gotta poke around the desert to find it.
lol the guy at 13:46.... is like "WTF you shootin around, boy?"
My grandfather worked on these V2's at White Sands.
is he still around?
What did he think about working with Nazi scientists approved by the US Govnt.
UNREPENTANT Nazi Scientists. They were war criminals, given a "get out of jail free" card by the United States Government. OUT GOVERNMENT. Does that sound like "Government of, by and FOR the People"?!
Russell Anderson : if we didnt use their expertise, the Russians would have sailed ahead of us in missile and space technology...we would have been in a weakened state and never gone to the moon....
That's cool! Does he have any souvenirs? Any piece of "junk" from a V2 or its ground support stuff.
Very informative and very detailed instructions for launching your own backyard V-2.
*THANKS!* The watermark is better than the clock.
I have a good friend who's mother was Wernher von Braun's personal security well he was stationed at White Sands Missile Range. After her mother passing she donated the ID bags to The Alamogordo Space Museum.
i cringed when they packed the glass wool without breathing protection
That smoke trail, tho . . . wheee! Calling that test shot a "guided missile" is generous as Santa Claus.
the wind blows the trail to a wonky form. the rocket itself obviously did not follow that path.
My dad was stationed at white sands during this time period
any body els remember watching shows at school and this kinda music would nearly blow the walls off our 300lb tv
TV? More like a clackity 16mm projector that keept going out of sync with the film.
This looks like a high school shop class film! 😂 “How to Launch a V2”
Amazing no accidents during filling ..all by hand..
This vid is repeated on your channel, yet still great to watch
I'm a bit surprised that the plane that searched for the remains of the rocket wasn't a biplane 😉
They used these, actually made them there and used them for practice, and for research throughout the 60's and 70's. My dad was the only one there who could read binary fluently and would tweak fuidance systems on experimental new missles and of coarse the rc drones used for target practice.
WSMR was extremely important to the US as all missles even the big boys; ICBM's were tested and used for training there.
Excellent detail in these videos.
An incredible success.
Details? This guy has them. ua-cam.com/video/EgiMu8A3pi0/v-deo.html
In my opinion, perhaps the most astounding achievement in the V2 was the Seimens (or was it Tekefunken) gyro guidance analog system. Able to withstand the tremendous vibration and G loading of launch yet provide an astoundingly small hit error. I recall that Iraqi engineers in 1990 couldn’t match the hit error with modified SCUD.
We, the Germans, had already dimensioned test bench 7 in Peenemünde in 1938 for the model A9, A10 rocket. Two stages with a range of 5,500 km. It was the so-called America rocket.
And then the Americans got fed up with your antics and spanked you're butt all the way back across Europe : P
@@Sophocles13 , nope - the Soviet Union defeated Nazi-Germany.
Its lucky , we the British destroyed the Luftwaffe in 1940 and began the strategic bombing of Germany then isn't it ?
@@georgerobartes2008 Was soll es bald seit ihr Geschichte und wir zeigen wider wie Zukunft funktioniert während ihr in die Steinzeit geht!
Viel Glück
Souverän ist wer über den ausnahmezustand entscheidet ihr seid es nicht!
@@georgerobartes2008 You just got lucky the last two times, let's see what the third one brings.
That intro is amazing tho.
My grandfather was killed in the Dachau concentration camp shortly after the SS Sturmbannführer von Braun visited the slave factory and demanded an increase in V2 production. Some people remember SS von Braun as the author of the lunar mission. Especially Americans.
He didn't care which country he worked for. " I just send the missiles up, where the come down is not my problem"
@@jasonwiley798 Al-Qaeda & HAMAS do the same. And don't call it work. They also "send the missiles up" and children they kill is no problem. For them.
That´s war, especially in reverse gear. What happened to him? Did he fall of a watch tower?
German Enginering👍
Before CGI. The Flat Earthers need to see this!
I see no need for childish namecalling. An optical printer cmbines foreground and background elements onto one piece of film. The drawback is generations of picture quality is lost with each element added to the film, with the tell-tale Matt-boxes for traveling mattes. For instance, look back at the SPFX for the film CONQUEST OF SPACE (1955), and then RETURN OF THE JEDI, and view the differences. Douglas Trumbull did the SPFX for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, which I also saw exactly 50 years ago in CINERAMA in Manhattan. They did not even get the look of Earth correct. We got that correct a few months later, if you recall if you were around then like we were, when Apollo 8 left Earth for trans-lunar orbit. It was epoch-making. They read from the book of Genesis as they swung round the moon. It was right after Nixon got elected. Unlike Kennedy (and I remember when he was shot in Dallas) Nixon had no interest in space exploration, only WAR. Don't you remember? Where were you 50 years ago, sleeping?
An optical printer is a device consisting of one or more film projectors mechanically linked to a movie camera. It allows filmmakers to re-photograph one or more strips of film. The optical printer is used for making special effects for motion pictures, or for copying and restoring old film material.
Common optical effects include fade outs and fade ins, dissolves, slow motion, fast motion, and matte work. More complicated work can involve dozens of elements, all combined into a single scene.The first, simple optical printers were constructed early in the 1920s. Linwood G. Dunn expanded the concept in the 1930s, and during World War II he was commissioned by the United States armed forces' photographic units to design an optical printer that could be ordered as a stock item like a camera. Development continued well into the 1980s, when the printers were controlled with minicomputers. Prime examples of optical printing work include the matte work in Star Wars (1977), which I saw for my 16th birthday, May 25th, 1977. You are telling me you are so completely undiscerning, you cannot tell the dirrerence between SP FX and Real, which means you are not an expert. I am, and I have a degree in software engineering.
What you do not see because you’re all blind, is that Wernherr von Braun was a Nazi who destroyed half London with his rockets, or if you prefer missiles. The American government simply invited him to found NASA.
@@michael.forkert That proves he is nothing more than a 3rd party, we employed his intellect just as the Germans did. Strip the Nazis of their creed, their leader, the atrocities. What you’re left with are individuals. But extraordinary individuals, capable of extraordinary awe and terror. Glad we scooped him up rather the Russians...
@@finnmacdiarmid3250 “We scooped him up….” , WHO? You with your family and friends, OR the US GOVERNMENT?
General Smedley said:”Our boys were sent of to die with beautiful ideals painted in front of them. No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason they were marching off to kill and die”.
General Patton said: “WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY”.
In El Paso there is a V2 that U used to be able to touch next tp parade field
It,s very interesting when you watch films of the Germans launching V2s that they never had that much equipment in place to do the same thing.
Germans used rollaway gantries on special trucks/trailers and other mobile launch support equipment which were pulled away out of danger in case a V2 blew up on the ground or immediately after airborne. There is YT video posted showing all their mobile launch support vehicles/equipment in use for a launch - a film captured after the war.
If it wasn't hidden very well they'd first get a visit from a photo recce Spitfire or Mosquito then a couple of hundred Lancasters to take the shine off their day .
Sogar heute sind die deutschen lngenieure die besten der Welt.
"John well be making a video about them V" 2's. can you compose a little tune so it aint to quiet all the way through" "You want me to compose a true classical banger which will be enjoyed centuries from now" "what?... go on I guess"
With a trajectory like that which is shown at 15:49, how is a impact point even approximated?
Uhhh... nobody thought of having a parachute installed in the "warhead" that contained the measurement instruments, so that they could be better recovered?
Later tests blew the nosecone off the rocket. No longer streamlined, the main body coasted to the ground at a leisurely 250 mph. The 16mm camera fed exposed film into an armored steel receptacle.
The narrator forgot to mention " delivering mail and nuclear warheads " . So begins the arms race .
Hard to believe it ran on simple alcohol. But we had nothing else.
You gotta have an alcohol tank on your spaceship.
So insanely complicated just to deliver a HE warhead to London.
Had anyone on the German end done the math, they'd see that it wasn't as cost effective as conventional bombers.
luckily the rocket didn't come down in Australia
German weapons
German design
German cars
German engineer
German knowhow
Amazing !
They lost both wars
@@rodrigomeneses5900What does this have to do with war ?
Just watching the guy at 2:40 gives me itches....
These rockets didn't always go where they were supposed to. May 27, 1947 one landed in the outskirts of Juarez. Left a big hole.
Makes you wonder why they placed the testing grounds (including the Trinity blast) near the Mexican border...
3:03 Woah! Hold up there Bub! Aren't you gonna test that pipe connection for leaks 1st? No wonder so many of these things blew up on the pad!
"guided" vs. "ballistic"?
100 miles up in just 3 minutes 40 seconds....
Yet they say it took 19 hours to reach the ISS just the other week ? 19 hours ?
@Thane Mac2 No cure for dumb. But there is room in the hospital....brandnewtube.com/watch/YOKOQHxXtQXi8YB
V-2 was guided??
Yes, the rocket had a giroscope for checking and correcting the trajectory
At 13:46 I think they captured Dracula himself and brought him back,
I guess they never considered a parachute..
Whats with the music
They said you could see Kansas City from White Sands New Mexico, that's 812.56 miles away. According to Google and Wikipedia, the amount of drop for a 812.56 mile distance would be 83 miles. The rocket went up 65 miles (18 miles less than 83 miles) How do you see something that is supposed to be 18 miles below you?
it did say that it was at it's highest point at 15:40 100 miles above the earth
Because like all flattards, you’re bad at math, research, and are a liar. The video says ONE HUNDRED MILES maximum altitude, not 65. So the city is EASILY seen from that distance and altitude from the missile range according to the curvature calculators. Massive fail on your part all around.
Not true.
"They said" is almost always an exaggeration
At 6:34 of the video, did anyone notice the idiot putting out his cigarette and then dumping it on the ground next to the missile? WTF
ELPIOJOBOLUDO it seems silly, but remember there was no fuel or explosives in the rocket at that time. It's perfectly safe minus the cancer you get 50 years down the road.
15:30 "iou"
lol!
At 13:31 that commandant who looks out of the building looks awful evil and sinister. The way he looks over his shoulder looks very suspicious. He looks like hes up to no good! I swear he looks just like Snidely Whiplash!!!!!
I think that was colonel Harrold turner
3:54 Top secret Nazi tuned inlet manifolds for better top-end power.
First or a business buy a set of metric spanners
Nazi were so close to the atom bomb with that and von Braun the allies would have had a very bad day .
Nazis weren't close at they never got started.
They were no where near an atomic bomb
Stolen project
No not stolen...spoils of war moron.
von Braun and team were happy to be "stolen" -- by the Americans. ....A lot of lesser technicians were not so happy to be taken to the Soviet Union.
Would you rather the Russians have their hands on it?
gasses are venting, lets smoke a cigarette next to it: ua-cam.com/video/l6aI4fh69rQ/v-deo.html
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I wonder if at each launch whether anyone gave a silent prayer to the men that died building these under the cruel SS factory conditions.
24 p HD
low lying fruit