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- From: dstine@cisco.com (David Stine)
- Newsgroups: rec.pyrotechnics
- Subject: Re: H2O2
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:57:37 GMT
- Organization: 9th Flying Pig Combat Squadron
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- References: <1993Jan20.205252.14134@rtf <1993Jan24.044854.13176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan25.134757.20334@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.134757.20334@ryn.mro4.dec.com> pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.044854.13176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
- >
- >> Speaking of German rockets. The V2's used hydrazine and H2O2...
- >
- > V-2s used LOX and Methanol(?) (called mumblestoff and otherstoff 8)>>)
- > Hydrogen Peroxide was used in the Walther cycle engines in the some of
- > the torpedoes and the Me 163 Komet.
-
- A bit off the topic, but perhaps interesting:
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- The Me163 Komet had some unique problems in the early models with leaky tanks
- for the H2O2 and hydrazine; the result being that the pilot essentially
- "dissolved" in mid-flight. Seems to be an icky way to die.
-
- Even when this was fixed, the Komet was purported to be a near-suicide
- machine; there was no landing gear, since it was cradled on a rolling frame
- which dropped off after take-off and it had one 37mm cannon, which was to be
- used against slower-moving bombers by flying through the formations and
- firing one or two of the 37mm rounds into a B-17 or B-24. Defensive
- armour and weaponry was practically nil.
-
- But for about 10 to 20 minutes, it was a human-guided airborn 37mm cannon that
- could move like a bat out of hell.
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