Oh thank god!! you re still active . We badly need the second part of V2 turbopump video. Plz continue this valuble work .Your videos are incomparable with other videos abt this subject.
Watched the entire video in one sitting, so much better than the rubbish that’s on television. Outstanding presentation thank you for taking us back to some snippets of time during the ioperational life of the weapon .
As a german I was aweare of the V2 but never thought there would be sooooo much to know about that! The Video about the turbo pump was unbelivable and brought my attention to your work. I love how you took apart those comon known pictures and show how they are all connected in your forensic way and its amazing! Cant wait to learn more from you! Thats how technical stuff should be teached in universitys!
I thoroughly enjoyed this new format. Very informative and captivating. I thought before I started watching that it might be a skip through video being 2 hours long, but I couldn't take my eyes from the screen. Please keep up the excellent work and it is great to have you back.
Mr. Dalby Congratulations here from Brazil! Your return to TH-cam is very welcome! Your videos on A4/V2 technology are invaluable! The turbopump video alone I must have watched four times! Thanks for more of these videos and hope for more!!!!
There were even other highly innovative rocket scientists working at Skoda Pribram plant for the SS, they developed the huge solid fuel V101 Skoda designed Rocket that was tested at 16.03.1945 in Rudisleben Arnstadt from Polte 2 plant, this one was flying radio guided over North Norway to come down near the North Pole region. it only missed its projected target by 6 Meters! That was quite something back in 1945, It was designed by a Dr.Büdewadt and Dr. Teichmann. V-101 was a solid fuel rocket, with THRUST 100 tons (not the amount of fuel). Range more than 1800 km, altitude 200 km. Designed by Dr. Büdewald and Dr. Teichmann at Skoda together with the SS group led by Hans Kammler. Length 30,26 m, width 2,82 m, weight 146 tons.
Thank you, I was born 3 years later in Barking. V2 (Big Ben) Incident No. 755 Tuesday 13th February 1945 18:52 - In its fifth major incident in two weeks, West Ham was struck again, in Queen Street, Stratford where 28 died . * * * * * * * * * Noted :- Because Queen Street is no longer there (destroyed), and was yards away from my Gran's corner Cafe on Windmill Lane, Stratford, West Ham, London. (now/was a Community Centre and in audio range of the Pub) (This backs up a family story and memories of the 1/2 mile square bombsite wasteland resulting the attempted destruction of Stratford Rail Work (were my father worked))
I don’t how long it took you to research and put these videos together but I just want to say thank you. I’ve learned more about how the V2’s were built and fired from these video’s. You attention to detail is insane in a good way. Thank you sir!
Very impressive on the info in photos. I just saw photo and you showed me how they can get so much info out of a photo. I now understand how the can figure out crashes of planes , space shuttle accidents etc. Thank you. I learned alot.
Very interesting and sobering investigative video without the jingoism. Thank you for that. One point you made at the end regarding the air tank has me wondering. If indeed the vehicle broke up in it's decent to the ground, wouldn't one expect a bit more of a trail of debris along it's flight path, especially those lighter or less aerodynamic parts that would decelerate faster due to air resistance and fall short of the final impact site. I appreciate that debris of all sorts in the streets was common so could have been ignored, apart from the tank that was bomb-like. However given the involvement of the military and no doubt intelligence services at the scene, it seems odd that no more was found in the wider search. Their findings may have been kept secret of course so we shall never know.
Robert, this video is simply AMAZING. As a enthusiast of everything Apollo, I have recently turned my attention to Operation Paperclip. This is how I stumbled on to your channel. Your analysis and explanations are incredible. Thank you for sharing this slice of history with us.
I grew up in Huntsville, one of my friends used to carpool with von Braun's children and I've learned more from this channel than talking to the old timers.
Using Google Maps to put it in current day perspective, was fascinating, if a little chilling. The reason why there are more recent buildings in the road. Washington Road, the reason for the orange roof tiles. My grandparents house was affected by the shockwave of one of these missiles. Interesting to see the photos, and what you manage to get out of them. I remember as a youngster, the many "bombsites" in SE London during the 50's and 60's. "Gone for a Burton"! :) Air burst, the tank, could it have fallen off on approach? Causing a failure.
Absolutely fantastic video and analysis. One minor suggestion; this rocket impact may be more accurately described as an in-flight breakup. The term air burst implies that it was intentionally detonated in the air in the same manner as an air burst artillery shell.
I was going to ask a similar thing. He implied that the rocket broke up in the air although the warhead didn't explode until it hit the buildings. Is this what his final assessment was?
Mr. Dalby, I have been watching these for years- multiple times. These videos are an absolute treasure and I’m sure are going to be viewed for many decades if not centuries. This series is important to the understanding of multiple important aspects of our history as human beings. Highest acclaim from me.
I was so glad to see some new content. I should have been in bed hours ago, but your content is so good and compelling, I'm still here having been glued for the whole duration. I'm sick and tired of watching 10 minute videos that don't have time to get into detail about stuff, so seeing your two hour time line only increased my interest. As usual your quality content kept me watching. No doubt the two survivors were well glad it was an air burst though they would never have known. Shouldn't it be possible to put a name to the two identified policemen ? The one in the photo and the other that chalked his ID on the found cylinder ? Just a bit more detail behind the story - it wasn't the same police man was it ? Wasn't the first K12 and the other K24 ? I'm sure you probably know but didn't use for other reasons, Google Earth the app has an adjustable 'time line' so giving you access to previous years photos. I don't know if it covers East London, but the whole of the South East of England was photographed by air recon, and this has been integrated into Google Earth giving access to that air recon project, for 1940. It was done for the most up to date information pending the expected Invasion of England. The quality often isn't all that great, but it is there and freely available.
I love your V2 videos, they are wonderfully informative on this amazing (for it's time) technology! I’m not sure I see the pipe damage being caused by vacuum created by a closing fuel valve at a height of 30 km as mentioned at 1:05:38. It’s not vacuum that crushes pipes, it’s outside pressure. At 30 km altitude, the outside atmospheric pressure (the force that would be available to crush the pipe) is very low, less than 50hPa, and maybe more like 25 hPa. That is just 2-5% of sea level pressure assuming a perfect vacuum inside the pipe. One would imagine that the pipe temperature would have to be well into its softening range for it to be this soft.
Please, please, do not chop these investigations, or anything else you do, into smaller parts. This has been totally enthralling all the way through and saves a lot of searching around for this part and that part which never seem to connect up. Thank you.
These presentations give the right level of engineering and technical details that I am interested in. Why are these parts designed this way, what materials was used, how it was put together. I would love to say that I have learned a lot about rocket design and function from the videos but I must admit the Robert’s voice is so calm and relaxing that I drift in and out of consciousness while watching them only to wake myself from the sound of my own snoring and to realise that 15 minutes of the video has played while I was deep in slumber. It takes me a number of tries to get through one video, not from the lack of enthusiasm or indeed from a lack of understanding, but simply because once the voice track starts the lullaby voice inevitably send my curious mind down the soft comfy road to slumberland.
Fascinating detective work, every thing but the PC's name in the picture. My mother and family lived in East Ham though out the war and must have witness the rocket strike but as is so common of the time it was never mentioned.
Well done to you and the team. This must have been hundreds of hours work and you pulled out some magnificent detail. And you prove time travel is never invented! The way you find and expose the clues had me riveted, brilliant work, well presented and a charm to watch and listen too. I am about to binge watch everything else V2 related on your channel.
I have a few A4/V2 pieces in my collection (probably the biggest or the only collection in Brazil!). And I learned from your video about the turbopump, the value of the “pressure contact piece” (druckkontakt) of the gas generator, which I have a copy!
Very disappointed that I'm just discovering this channel. I can't express how informative and important these videos are for public consumption. Truly an exhilarating time to be alive. Thanks for the hard work!
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thankyou. Awoke at 4am with toothache and watching this took my mind off it as it was fascinating from start to finish. As indeed all your videos are.
Regarding the vacuum damaged pipework. If the V2 is re-entering at supersonic speed the tail end around the engine would be in a low pressure area / vacuum. This would get inside any pipework which has an open end over a period of time. Then when the V2 suddenly stops / breaks up, the outside of the pipes would be exposed to atmospheric pressure, and any thin wall pipes which are unable to instantly equalise pressure due to only being fed through restricted small holes would be crushed.
The blast damage would actually be higher if the V2 broke up in flight - because an intact V2 would bury its warhead deeper in the ground (up to 10 m). The tumbling warhead would be more likely to be subsonic when it detonated much higher in the house structure than the Mach 2 of an intact rocket. Similar effects were seen with the Gulf war SCUD’s (a very direct descendant of the V2) breaking up over Israel.
I was thinking the exact same thing. If the warhead buries itself into the ground just before it detonates would attenuate the shockwave due to the cratering and mostly upward direction of the explosion.
This kind of analysis (both the target site and the weapon) is exactly what I have wanted to see. Excellent! Please let's have more of these. Thank you.
I am not surprised by the lack of damage to the motor and turbo pumps.. the warhead was a good distance from the rear of the missile when it detonated and the intervening structures did not contain much hard or heavy debris producing material. The warhead did not have any fragmentation enhancement and blast pressure drops according to the inverse cube law.. The collapsed fuel lines are another interesting feature, but I would suspect they have been collapsed by the outer skin being forced against the motor by the blast. I have analysed a good many missile explosions and it not uncommon for the rear elements to survive relatively intact..
I am new to your presentations. A few questions: 1) Did von Braun et al actually have a computed Circular Error Probability for these devices based upon a statistically significant number of full up range calibrated test launches? 2) Did von Braun and other designers ever consider fashioning it as a multistage device, with intraflight path corrections, etc.? Many more degrees of freedom in so doing (multiple gyros, etc.). Or were these concepts beyond their Ken and beyond then current theory and technology? 3) When did the Allies learn of this R&D program, prior to active use, and did that add further urgency to the 'all in' pace of the Manhattan Project? The thought of a Nazi A-Bomb mounted on an ADVANCED 'V-20' would certainly give further weight to explaining why Roosevelt signed General Grove's request for another five hundred million to build K-25, to complement Y-12, and the centrifugation plant. Just a thought. Great material. Keep it up. From a retired physicist and EE.
Congratulations on producing one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen on You Tube. Superb detective work. Excellent clear presentation. Loved the comparisons between the photos and real debris/relics. Well done! :-)
Interesting analysis of the pics of the first hit - both pics look to be taken within minutes/hours of each other by the same photographer - same quality of photograph, same truck, same crane, and the relationship between the two is the same. Once you realize that the row of rubble isn't in the middle of the road but all on the left hand side it all makes sense. The first pic taken from the right hand side of the road, the second picture from the left hand side. The stretcher is what gives it away plus that distinctive broken tree branch. Love the detailed analysis of the photos - brilliant!
Just recently discovered the channel. The V2 stuff is first class. I particularly enjoyed this video. So much research and informed opinion. Thanks so much. I can't wait for the next set of photos.
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Wonderful video - thank you so much. I recently read Michael J. Neufeld's biography of von Braun. In the biography, Neufeld mentions an incident which took place sometime in 1945 in which von Braun was being driven by an RAF driver from his lodgings in Wimbledon to central London during his debriefing by British authorities, presumably as part of Operation Backfire. One morning on the journey the RAF driver stopped at a V2 impact site to allow von Braun some time to inspect the site. No mention is made if this was at the instigation of the driver or von Braun or what conclusions von Braun drew from his inspection, if any. Anyway, the details of the incident are most likely lost to history but perhaps there are more details to be uncovered? And again thanks for your wonderful A4/V2 videos.
Fortunately, before watching this video I had already seen the others in which you very clearly explain how the V2 works, so I loved watching this video because I understood all the forensic work perfectly. Thanks and congratulations.
Having read some of the preceeding comments might I add some clarification? The cause of the collapse of the piping was given as water hammer effect. This is correct, Wasserschlag often has this effect. Overpressures due to thrust termination were minimised by using a two stage reduction of fuel flow in fully controlled termination but some fault conditions, such as activation of termination by the turbo overpeed switch when, for instance, oxidant depletes before fuel, could result in sudden, full fuel supply termination leading to sudden, severe Wasserschlag underpressures. There were always problems with in-flight failures; these were never resolved. During vertical recovery firings the severe re-entry motions were analysed. This led to two modifications. Rock-wool filling was placed between the warhead and its aero-shell to reduce heat sensitisation of the warhead by aerodynamic heating. Reinforcement panels were fixed to the missile body to stiffen it against the stresses of re-entry flexing. These measures did help to some extent but failures continue to the end of the use of the A4. The early in-flight failures can be left for another day. The post-apogee, in-flight failures can be categorised as premature warhead event, aerodynamic break-up and aerodynamic break-up followed by premature warhead event. Opinions vary but probably at least 30% of firings came into these categories. In these early days of ballistic missiles it was assumed that following thrust termination the missile would fly like an arrow. This was an error. An arrow has a heavy pile at one end and draggy fletchings at the other. The A4 had a heavy warhead at one end and a heavy engine assembly at the other; more of a dumbell than an arrow. At thrust termination the roll-controlled missile was not given a set roll nor a set attitude profile. Roll was not controlled nor induced. upon realignment to the flight direction when experiening a post apogee increase in dynamic pressure it was liable to fall into a roll-yaw resonant flight regime. This would result in a small area of the warhead being subject to aerodynamic heating as the same part of the structure would always be aligned to the airflow. It would also lead to very severe flexing of the structure. Once entering the roll-resonant regime it would usually become locked into it until failure. Successful missiles were sensitively fuzed; designed to detonate at height that might be thought of as very low air-burst. This was to maximise blast damage and to prevent all the explosive energy being wasted below ground. The firing examined showed none of these characteristics. The fall of the air bottle along the flight path is good evidence of an aerodynamic breakup. It would have a high ballistic coefficient. Low Beta debris may have drifted further from the flight path. The video did not show enough evidence to determine whether the warhead detonated following impact but it did not appear to detonate at roof height. It is worth noting that because of the territory gained by Market Garden after 17th November no A4 was ever fired at London from such a short range. The incresed range of further firings would have led to an increase in the failure rate. Talk of the effect of the jet stream must await another day.
Excellent forensic examination of the pictures. Disastrous for the secrecy of the V2 program. Shows why the RAF was so reluctant to allow H2S radar sets to be used in bombing attacks in enemy territory. Cavity magnetrons also being rather robust items that may have survived a downing of the aircraft.
Incredible documentary . I've had a deep interest in the whole of the space program since I was a child in the Sixties. My Mum lived through the the Blitz on Belfast.In her last year's of her life, she recounted very graphically what she saw as a 14 yr old .It was really horrible. Also when living in London during the early Eighties, I was shown around Clapton Common , by a local, lines of houses that had been taken out by German sticks of bombs. These homes where replaced with newer but ugly buildings.Street after street we walked following the fall of the bombs. It was in Pitcairn Street to begin with. But it's all gone now. Thank you for you work.
Thank you for all of these very good videos. You startet my interest in space and astronomy as well as rocket science. I love your didactical approach and it is allways a pleasure to listen to your voice. Please continue your videos. You do have a real fan from Berlin, Germany.
What a breath taking collection of information on that V2 technology. Amazing work. One question: didn´t Germany ever considered the use of a solid propellant as is usual today in Boosters ? Maybe not based on the present Amonnium perchlorate and Hydroxylated Rubber ( as is the case of modern Space |Shuttle boosters) but maybe some other chemical combination ? They would have no need of the turbopump and all these complicated pumps. Again, Congratulations from Brazil.
First one I have seen but absolutely fascinating/riveting and I want more! Can’t comment on changed format as haven’t seen previous ones but loved this one. Excellent history and amazing forensic technical explanation. Off to share with friends I know will feel the same!
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your video on Big Ben 22. I think you have got it right that this incident was an airburst, but I don’t recall you explaining why there should be an airburst. Perhaps I can shed some light on this matter by quoting a couple of anecdotes. My good friend Ernie, just a bit older than me and now sadly deceased, told me that in the latter stages of WW11 he and his school friends used to lie on the grass in a park in Ilford and watch the A4/V2s coming over to London at night. I thought this a bit strange at the time, but when I learnt that the A4 had a stability problem after fuel cut off and, as a result they started tumbling, I realised what he had seen. The twinkling that he reported was the rocket tumbling and the flashes of light were the incandescent glow of the carbon veins. Who knows, one of these might have been Big Ben 22! Another example of a tumbling rocket was that which came down on it’s side in the mud of the Medway and stayed there until last year, with it’s warhead and detonator intact, surprisingly it was used by the local sailing club as a mooring point until somebody raised the alarm and it was removed by the Royal Navy. So, perhaps an airburst occurred when the rocket broke up and somehow detonated. By the way, as a child I can remember playing in a playground in Deptford that had a remarkably intact A4 combustion chamber in the corner of the park. I suspect this is long gone. Thanks once again for a fascinating video.
A superb video, the very "aircraft crash investigation" of one of the first ballistic missile attacks; well researched and presented in a scientific way. Good to hear your original A4 air tank is still in tune, as the cost of re-tuning has skyrocketed nowadays.
Only just discovered this channel and I found this 'feature length' detailed analysis of Big Ben Incident 22 completely fascinating. I live in London and very interested in the Blitz, in fact it affected me personally as my grandfather only survived the explosion of a 'parachute mine' in Blackheath due to taking cover under a sturdy dining room table. Otherwise my mother (and me) wouldn't be here now. Quite amusing that Robert states at the start this is 'one of a series of short videos', so goodness knows how long the 'long videos' are :)
Well done work. I don't mind 2hours videos, but I think you could shorten the overview an placement section a little, without hurting the content. I do miss some in depth information of the difference between the impact from an airburst vs regular "big ben incident". Also 20 comercials are way over the top. I do understand the concept of founding, but I would rather see 5 longer commercials (same total time), than beeing interupted so much. (Actually, the suggestion of shortening the placement section, coincident with a cluster of annoying breaks. I might just be the commercials that gives me the feeling of a never ending section?)
Fabulously detailed examination of details and painstaking detective work. Completely enthralling. However the first part of the story I found very depressing in that the area in question in 2021 now looks a squalid third world pit compared to it's leafy lined roads back in 1944. Did we REALLY win the war?
Just found your channel again after all my channels suddenly had no subscription. Anyway totally fascinating video . Don't know how else to describe it. Thank you. Will look forward to seeing more.
This is incredible. I just found your channel from the turbo pump part 1. You should get the software they use on TV where all you have to do is click enhance 3 times. Good work fine sir
Further scrutiny of the two pictures at around 27:00 helps you to figure out what was wrong when you tried to align the pictures. Perspective was throwing you off. It looks as though the church side footpath was covered in debris in the left picture, and some of that debris is partially hidden by the truck in the right picture, whilst more of it has been loaded into the back of the vehicle. It's there to be seen. The truck had clearly been moved across the road, as you said, to facilitate easy loading, likely after taking some of the debris away from in front of the houses. So that apparent line of debris in the middle of the road was in fact on the footpath in front of the church. On the opposite side of the narrow street. It makes sense to keep the road clear for vehicle access and egress. A line of detritus in the middle of a narrow road would have hampered things, as any truck driver will confirm. It's also possible that the church photograph was taken at a slightly later time of day, maybe an hour to 90 minutes later, as the slight shadows in both pictures show us. The opposite sequence to your thoughts. There was a little more sunlight in the second image, so the shadows are clearer at that time. Notice that they have swung noticeably clockwise by that time. (You can increase the contrast of the houses photograph to make the shadows under the vehicles more visible.) There are, in fact, quite a number of people in both images. Look carefully at the right-hand side of the 'houses' image. Enlarge it and enhance it a little. Quite a few people were beyond the vehicles. I'd guess that the responders who were working in the street would have had the police and wardens there to keep most of them back. This is still done today whenever a disaster happens. Only essential and authorised personnel are allowed within the clear-up area. That would have been particularly important with wartime security being applied. If a piece of the weapon had been found and everyone had seen it, or worse still, if a reporter had seen it, then think what the Germans could have learned from the positive confirmation that their mission was responsible for the damage. Of course, if I'm wrong with any of this analysis, I'll admit it! The houses on the parallel street to St. Stephen's Road, the one behind the houses, as seen in the Google image, will also have suffered quite badly. I wonder whether any photographs of them were taken? Well spotted with those railings!
Hello. Thanks for producing this video. I found it amazing to watch as you breakdown the various details in these pictures. A trip to England is on my bucket list from Canada and I hope to visit some of these museums and see first hand these horrific yet interesting pieces of history.
ATTENTION: some serious background infos adding value to your examinations regarding "german" 1:06:30 shows a 617 for sure cause you missed the very first part of a german handwritten 7 which is a small vertical line running to the upper left corner - you had started too late for a german 7 each pupils learns to write cause you started only from the horizontal line ! 1:11:49 has to be spelled "warme Semmeln" not "Wärme" cause "Wärme" is a noun standing for heat where "warme" means warm, a warm meal, not a cold one - and Semmeln is the bavarian word for bread roll, so warm bread roll is literally meant by the word, which is a decoy, a cover. And "warme Semmeln" for sure does not mean what you showed "hot cake" or "hot roll", only "warm bread roll" which is a typical german bavarian set of words with a unique meaning and context only understandable for native german speakers which has a different meaning than a meal or something to eat. It is important to understand cause that particular name is a decoy measurement to fool british translators cause it needs native speakers to bring that into the right context. THEREFORE ATTENTION: most likely this "program hot bread roll" has nothing to do with a meal it is quite the opposite and is used for its meaning as a german saying that something "goes away like hot bread roll" or "es geht weg wie warme Semmeln" which means what? The intention of the program sounds like 'to get rid of the inventory' cause "goes aways like hot bread roll" has a similiar english equivalent in "sells like hot cake" where the german saying has its orign in a bakery where the baker man is talking about the stuff he sold easily and that was not fresh bread, but the smaller bread rolls most likely people could afford easier and fit to their demand at that second when being or feeling hungry (saying from 18th century). Therefore the program "warme Semmeln" has a kind of decoy covername cause "warme Semmeln" has nothing to do with rockets but with getting rid of stock / inventory which fits perfectly for the issue they faced then. Again: geht weg wie warme Semmeln or goes away like warm bread rolls is not only emphasizing on great sales, but mostly describes a situation of high demand where you run into a shortage like all people taking "americans" and no one take "berliner", both sweet bakeries you get in germany for a century and the sentence describes only that on your party people only seem to eat americans when saying "amerikaner gehen weg wie warme Semmeln" americans go away like warm bread rolls". Interesting that they choose such decoy project name cause it has no other intention than that cause the other intention meant would be like "to spit the brits into the soup" has its own saying "to spit someone into the meal / soup" but "warme Semmeln" can only be understood by a native speaker due to the mix of saying and bavarian "semmeln". Lot of effort even for the code name of such a smaller project.
Yes an airburst. The men that lived were on the track the missile would have penetrated had it stayed together. Probably saved their lives when it broke apart. Standing under the track tells me you could have observed it coming down in pieces since when it broke up it would have slowed drastically so as to be able to see it clearly coming. Which would have been horribly frightening.
Brilliant job. May I ask what suite of tools you're using for these excellent videos? I recognize Photoshop, of course, and I think you're using the Hotkey Cursor Highlighter. I suspect you're using OBS? How are you using the mouse to pan around the image, and what effect are you using to fade your web cam into the lower left corner? Kudos in any event.
What a lovely bit of enthusiastic detective work. You are so much better with the V2 than the telescope adjusting video. I was expecting a message from a slave written in blood. Now I have seen some unlikely stuff that the first man in space was ad unwilling as that Laika dog. No wonder the photos were illegal because deprived of feedback rickets would continue with limited performance. Check out Pedley Street E1 WW2 because there's loads of good archive and Crossrail had to snake through possible UXB's all over. Only building left standing in 5 acres Weaver House built post WW1 2 foot thick walls concrete floors and massive water tanks in lofts.
Oh thank god!! you re still active . We badly need the second part of V2 turbopump video. Plz continue this valuble work .Your videos are incomparable with other videos abt this subject.
So I'm not the only one waiting for the second part :-)
Only a four year break 😂
Watched the entire video in one sitting, so much better than the rubbish that’s on television. Outstanding presentation thank you for taking us back to some snippets of time during the ioperational life of the weapon .
As a german I was aweare of the V2 but never thought there would be sooooo much to know about that! The Video about the turbo pump was unbelivable and brought my attention to your work. I love how you took apart those comon known pictures and show how they are all connected in your forensic way and its amazing! Cant wait to learn more from you! Thats how technical stuff should be teached in universitys!
I thoroughly enjoyed this new format. Very informative and captivating. I thought before I started watching that it might be a skip through video being 2 hours long, but I couldn't take my eyes from the screen. Please keep up the excellent work and it is great to have you back.
Welcome back! Are you still working on the second part of the V2 turbopump video? I had an absolute blast watching the first one!
i am also waiting for same.
Me too!
brilliant analytics. thank you very much Mr Holmes
The Burges Road investigation was a fantastic piece of photographic forensics.
Mr. Dalby
Congratulations here from Brazil!
Your return to TH-cam is very welcome!
Your videos on A4/V2 technology are invaluable!
The turbopump video alone I must have watched four times!
Thanks for more of these videos and hope for more!!!!
There were even other highly innovative rocket scientists working at Skoda Pribram plant for the SS, they developed the huge solid fuel V101 Skoda designed Rocket that was tested at 16.03.1945 in Rudisleben Arnstadt from Polte 2 plant, this one was flying radio guided over North Norway to come down near the North Pole region. it only missed its projected target by 6 Meters! That was quite something back in 1945, It was designed by a Dr.Büdewadt and Dr. Teichmann. V-101 was a solid fuel rocket, with THRUST 100 tons (not the amount of fuel). Range more than 1800 km, altitude 200 km. Designed by Dr. Büdewald and Dr. Teichmann at Skoda together with the SS group led by Hans Kammler. Length 30,26 m, width 2,82 m, weight 146 tons.
Thank you, I was born 3 years later in Barking.
V2 (Big Ben) Incident No. 755 Tuesday 13th February 1945 18:52 - In its fifth major incident in two weeks, West Ham was struck again, in Queen Street, Stratford where 28 died .
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Noted :- Because Queen Street is no longer there (destroyed), and was yards away from my Gran's corner Cafe on Windmill Lane, Stratford, West Ham, London. (now/was a Community Centre and in audio range of the Pub)
(This backs up a family story and memories of the 1/2 mile square bombsite wasteland resulting the attempted destruction of Stratford Rail Work (were my father worked))
For the first time ever on the tube, an educated, forensic examination of the facts. 😊
I don’t how long it took you to research and put these videos together but I just want to say thank you. I’ve learned more about how the V2’s were built and fired from these video’s. You attention to detail is insane in a good way. Thank you sir!
Very impressive on the info in photos. I just saw photo and you showed me how they can get so much info out of a photo. I now understand how the can figure out crashes of planes , space shuttle accidents etc. Thank you. I learned alot.
OMG - Lovely to have you back!!!!!
Can't wait to finally hear about the 8 ton valve!
Very interesting and sobering investigative video without the jingoism. Thank you for that.
One point you made at the end regarding the air tank has me wondering. If indeed the vehicle broke up in it's decent to the ground, wouldn't one expect a bit more of a trail of debris along it's flight path, especially those lighter or less aerodynamic parts that would decelerate faster due to air resistance and fall short of the final impact site.
I appreciate that debris of all sorts in the streets was common so could have been ignored, apart from the tank that was bomb-like. However given the involvement of the military and no doubt intelligence services at the scene, it seems odd that no more was found in the wider search. Their findings may have been kept secret of course so we shall never know.
Robert, this video is simply AMAZING. As a enthusiast of everything Apollo, I have recently turned my attention to Operation Paperclip. This is how I stumbled on to your channel. Your analysis and explanations are incredible. Thank you for sharing this slice of history with us.
I grew up in Huntsville, one of my friends used to carpool with von Braun's children and I've learned more from this channel than talking to the old timers.
Using Google Maps to put it in current day perspective, was fascinating, if a little chilling.
The reason why there are more recent buildings in the road.
Washington Road, the reason for the orange roof tiles.
My grandparents house was affected by the shockwave of one of these missiles.
Interesting to see the photos, and what you manage to get out of them.
I remember as a youngster, the many "bombsites" in SE London during the 50's and 60's.
"Gone for a Burton"! :)
Air burst, the tank, could it have fallen off on approach? Causing a failure.
Absolutely fantastic video and analysis. One minor suggestion; this rocket impact may be more accurately described as an in-flight breakup. The term air burst implies that it was intentionally detonated in the air in the same manner as an air burst artillery shell.
I was going to ask a similar thing. He implied that the rocket broke up in the air although the warhead didn't explode until it hit the buildings. Is this what his final assessment was?
Mr. Dalby, I have been watching these for years- multiple times. These videos are an absolute treasure and I’m sure are going to be viewed for many decades if not centuries. This series is important to the understanding of multiple important aspects of our history as human beings. Highest acclaim from me.
I was so glad to see some new content. I should have been in bed hours ago, but your content is so good and compelling, I'm still here having been glued for the whole duration. I'm sick and tired of watching 10 minute videos that don't have time to get into detail about stuff, so seeing your two hour time line only increased my interest. As usual your quality content kept me watching.
No doubt the two survivors were well glad it was an air burst though they would never have known.
Shouldn't it be possible to put a name to the two identified policemen ? The one in the photo and the other that chalked his ID on the found cylinder ? Just a bit more detail behind the story - it wasn't the same police man was it ? Wasn't the first K12 and the other K24 ?
I'm sure you probably know but didn't use for other reasons, Google Earth the app has an adjustable 'time line' so giving you access to previous years photos. I don't know if it covers East London, but the whole of the South East of England was photographed by air recon, and this has been integrated into Google Earth giving access to that air recon project, for 1940. It was done for the most up to date information pending the expected Invasion of England. The quality often isn't all that great, but it is there and freely available.
Wow this is fantastic detective work, great work sir.
I love your V2 videos, they are wonderfully informative on this amazing (for it's time) technology!
I’m not sure I see the pipe damage being caused by vacuum created by a closing fuel valve at a height of 30 km as mentioned at 1:05:38. It’s not vacuum that crushes pipes, it’s outside pressure. At 30 km altitude, the outside atmospheric pressure (the force that would be available to crush the pipe) is very low, less than 50hPa, and maybe more like 25 hPa. That is just 2-5% of sea level pressure assuming a perfect vacuum inside the pipe. One would imagine that the pipe temperature would have to be well into its softening range for it to be this soft.
I had the same thought
Please, please, do not chop these investigations, or anything else you do, into smaller parts. This has been totally enthralling all the way through and saves a lot of searching around for this part and that part which never seem to connect up.
Thank you.
The V2 detective. Absolutely love it!
I also prefer the long format. Thanks for making these.
These presentations give the right level of engineering and technical details that I am interested in.
Why are these parts designed this way, what materials was used, how it was put together.
I would love to say that I have learned a lot about rocket design and function from the videos but
I must admit the Robert’s voice is so calm and relaxing that I drift in and out of consciousness
while watching them only to wake myself from the sound of my own snoring and to realise that 15
minutes of the video has played while I was deep in slumber. It takes me a number of tries to get through
one video, not from the lack of enthusiasm or indeed from a lack of understanding, but simply because
once the voice track starts the lullaby voice inevitably send my curious mind down the soft comfy road to slumberland.
Really appreciate the effort you put into your videos! Highly interesting and informative presentation!
Fascinating detective work, every thing but the PC's name in the picture.
My mother and family lived in East Ham though out the war and must have witness the
rocket strike but as is so common of the time it was never mentioned.
Well done to you and the team. This must have been hundreds of hours work and you pulled out some magnificent detail. And you prove time travel is never invented! The way you find and expose the clues had me riveted, brilliant work, well presented and a charm to watch and listen too. I am about to binge watch everything else V2 related on your channel.
I have a few A4/V2 pieces in my collection (probably the biggest or the only collection in Brazil!). And I learned from your video about the turbopump, the value of the “pressure contact piece” (druckkontakt) of the gas generator, which I have a copy!
Very disappointed that I'm just discovering this channel. I can't express how informative and important these videos are for public consumption. Truly an exhilarating time to be alive. Thanks for the hard work!
Amazing analysis and gripping stuff.
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thankyou. Awoke at 4am with toothache and watching this took my mind off it as it was fascinating from start to finish. As indeed all your videos are.
Bravo! What a forensic tour de force! I am impressed, and eagerly await further videos!
Regarding the vacuum damaged pipework. If the V2 is re-entering at supersonic speed the tail end around the engine would be in a low pressure area / vacuum. This would get inside any pipework which has an open end over a period of time. Then when the V2 suddenly stops / breaks up, the outside of the pipes would be exposed to atmospheric pressure, and any thin wall pipes which are unable to instantly equalise pressure due to only being fed through restricted small holes would be crushed.
That is a very interesting and plausible explanation.
What an amazing video. Thank you for making this, and for providing background facts. You honor those who gave their lives in this war. Thanks.
Amazing work. Two hours on a Sunday morning well spent.
The blast damage would actually be higher if the V2 broke up in flight - because an intact V2 would bury its warhead deeper in the ground (up to 10 m). The tumbling warhead would be more likely to be subsonic when it detonated much higher in the house structure than the Mach 2 of an intact rocket.
Similar effects were seen with the Gulf war SCUD’s (a very direct descendant of the V2) breaking up over Israel.
I was thinking the exact same thing. If the warhead buries itself into the ground just before it detonates would attenuate the shockwave due to the cratering and mostly upward direction of the explosion.
Needed a break around 1h30m mark, but I have actually watched 2h. Not many can hold my attention this long on yt. Great work. Love it.
Excellent detective work! Thanks for all your hard work on this terrible event in ww2. But also very fascinating information.
Glad you're still making videos! Looking forward to watching this later.
Fabulous forensic storytelling!
This kind of analysis (both the target site and the weapon) is exactly what I have wanted to see. Excellent! Please let's have more of these. Thank you.
I am not surprised by the lack of damage to the motor and turbo pumps.. the warhead was a good distance from the rear of the missile when it detonated and the intervening structures did not contain much hard or heavy debris producing material. The warhead did not have any fragmentation enhancement and blast pressure drops according to the inverse cube law.. The collapsed fuel lines are another interesting feature, but I would suspect they have been collapsed by the outer skin being forced against the motor by the blast. I have analysed a good many missile explosions and it not uncommon for the rear elements to survive relatively intact..
I am new to your presentations. A few questions:
1) Did von Braun et al actually have a computed Circular Error Probability for these devices based upon a statistically significant number of full up range calibrated test launches?
2) Did von Braun and other designers ever consider fashioning it as a multistage device, with intraflight path corrections, etc.? Many more degrees of freedom in so doing (multiple gyros, etc.). Or were these concepts beyond their Ken and beyond then current theory and technology?
3) When did the Allies learn of this R&D program, prior to active use, and did that add further urgency to the 'all in' pace of the Manhattan Project? The thought of a Nazi A-Bomb mounted on an ADVANCED 'V-20' would certainly give further weight to explaining why Roosevelt signed General Grove's request for another five hundred million to build K-25, to complement Y-12, and the centrifugation plant. Just a thought.
Great material. Keep it up. From a retired physicist and EE.
Congratulations on producing one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen on You Tube. Superb detective work. Excellent clear presentation. Loved the comparisons between the photos and real debris/relics. Well done! :-)
Interesting analysis of the pics of the first hit - both pics look to be taken within minutes/hours of each other by the same photographer - same quality of photograph, same truck, same crane, and the relationship between the two is the same. Once you realize that the row of rubble isn't in the middle of the road but all on the left hand side it all makes sense. The first pic taken from the right hand side of the road, the second picture from the left hand side. The stretcher is what gives it away plus that distinctive broken tree branch. Love the detailed analysis of the photos - brilliant!
Just recently discovered the channel. The V2 stuff is first class. I particularly enjoyed this video. So much research and informed opinion. Thanks so much. I can't wait for the next set of photos.
Hi Tony and thanks for posting, glad to hear you liked it. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on the A4/V2 missile. KR A&NTV
Wonderful video - thank you so much.
I recently read Michael J. Neufeld's biography of von Braun. In the biography, Neufeld mentions an incident which took place sometime in 1945 in which von Braun was being driven by an RAF driver from his lodgings in Wimbledon to central London during his debriefing by British authorities, presumably as part of Operation Backfire.
One morning on the journey the RAF driver stopped at a V2 impact site to allow von Braun some time to inspect the site. No mention is made if this was at the instigation of the driver or von Braun or what conclusions von Braun drew from his inspection, if any.
Anyway, the details of the incident are most likely lost to history but perhaps there are more details to be uncovered?
And again thanks for your wonderful A4/V2 videos.
Wow great video... sometimes TH-cam do a good job finding really good videos, that have low visit but incredible great content
You blow my mind ! It was like traveling back in time with your photo analysis. So compelling., amazing content, great narration, what's not to like.
Fortunately, before watching this video I had already seen the others in which you very clearly explain how the V2 works, so I loved watching this video because I understood all the forensic work perfectly. Thanks and congratulations.
Having read some of the preceeding comments might I add some clarification? The cause of the collapse of the piping was given as water hammer effect. This is correct, Wasserschlag often has this effect. Overpressures due to thrust termination were minimised by using a two stage reduction of fuel flow in fully controlled termination but some fault conditions, such as activation of termination by the turbo overpeed switch when, for instance, oxidant depletes before fuel, could result in sudden, full fuel supply termination leading to sudden, severe Wasserschlag underpressures.
There were always problems with in-flight failures; these were never resolved. During vertical recovery firings the severe re-entry motions were analysed. This led to two modifications. Rock-wool filling was placed between the warhead and its aero-shell to reduce heat sensitisation of the warhead by aerodynamic heating. Reinforcement panels were fixed to the missile body to stiffen it against the stresses of re-entry flexing. These measures did help to some extent but failures continue to the end of the use of the A4.
The early in-flight failures can be left for another day. The post-apogee, in-flight failures can be categorised as premature warhead event, aerodynamic break-up and aerodynamic break-up followed by premature warhead event. Opinions vary but probably at least 30% of firings came into these categories. In these early days of ballistic missiles it was assumed that following thrust termination the missile would fly like an arrow. This was an error. An arrow has a heavy pile at one end and draggy fletchings at the other. The A4 had a heavy warhead at one end and a heavy engine assembly at the other; more of a dumbell than an arrow. At thrust termination the roll-controlled missile was not given a set roll nor a set attitude profile. Roll was not controlled nor induced. upon realignment to the flight direction when experiening a post apogee increase in dynamic pressure it was liable to fall into a roll-yaw resonant flight regime. This would result in a small area of the warhead being subject to aerodynamic heating as the same part of the structure would always be aligned to the airflow. It would also lead to very severe flexing of the structure. Once entering the roll-resonant regime it would usually become locked into it until failure.
Successful missiles were sensitively fuzed; designed to detonate at height that might be thought of as very low air-burst. This was to maximise blast damage and to prevent all the explosive energy being wasted below ground. The firing examined showed none of these characteristics. The fall of the air bottle along the flight path is good evidence of an aerodynamic breakup. It would have a high ballistic coefficient. Low Beta debris may have drifted further from the flight path. The video did not show enough evidence to determine whether the warhead detonated following impact but it did not appear to detonate at roof height.
It is worth noting that because of the territory gained by Market Garden after 17th November no A4 was ever fired at London from such a short range. The incresed range of further firings would have led to an increase in the failure rate. Talk of the effect of the jet stream must await another day.
This is absolutely mindbugling. Give us Part 2 please.
Excellent forensic examination of the pictures. Disastrous for the secrecy of the V2 program. Shows why the RAF was so reluctant to allow H2S radar sets to be used in bombing attacks in enemy territory. Cavity magnetrons also being rather robust items that may have survived a downing of the aircraft.
Incredible documentary . I've had a deep interest in the whole of the space program since I was a child in the Sixties. My Mum lived through the the Blitz on Belfast.In her last year's of her life, she recounted very graphically what she saw as a 14 yr old .It was really horrible. Also when living in London during the early Eighties, I was shown around Clapton Common , by a local, lines of houses that had been taken out by German sticks of bombs. These homes where replaced with newer but ugly buildings.Street after street we walked following the fall of the bombs. It was in Pitcairn Street to begin with. But it's all gone now. Thank you for you work.
Thank you for all of these very good videos. You startet my interest in space and astronomy as well as rocket science. I love your didactical approach and it is allways a pleasure to listen to your voice. Please continue your videos. You do have a real fan from Berlin, Germany.
Beautiful video. Amazing knowledge and work.
I truly am fascinated by your videos on the V2 , please keep them coming….thank you so much for your content
This is amazing. Thank you for all of your V2 videos
I genuinly love Your videos!
Thank you Robert, for another deep dive into the history and technology of the A4/V-2 combat rocket!
This video should have million views
it's been 5 months i am waiting for the video from this channel. btw love your videos. 😍😍😍
What a breath taking collection of information on that V2 technology. Amazing work. One question: didn´t Germany ever considered the use of a solid propellant as is usual today in Boosters ? Maybe not based on the present Amonnium perchlorate and Hydroxylated Rubber ( as is the case of modern Space |Shuttle boosters) but maybe some other chemical combination ? They would have no need of the turbopump and all these complicated pumps. Again, Congratulations from Brazil.
First one I have seen but absolutely fascinating/riveting and I want more! Can’t comment on changed format as haven’t seen previous ones but loved this one. Excellent history and amazing forensic technical explanation. Off to share with friends I know will feel the same!
Very well presented and awesome observations! Well done and continue the series!
Very well done indeed. I have learned a lot from your videos and would like to see more. Please keep up the outstanding work!
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your video on Big Ben 22.
I think you have got it right that this incident was an airburst, but I don’t recall you explaining why there should be an airburst. Perhaps I can shed some light on this matter by quoting a couple of anecdotes.
My good friend Ernie, just a bit older than me and now sadly deceased, told me that in the latter stages of WW11 he and his school friends used to lie on the grass in a park in Ilford and watch the A4/V2s coming over to London at night. I thought this a bit strange at the time, but when I learnt that the A4 had a stability problem after fuel cut off and, as a result they started tumbling, I realised what he had seen. The twinkling that he reported was the rocket tumbling and the flashes of light were the incandescent glow of the carbon veins. Who knows, one of these might have been Big Ben 22!
Another example of a tumbling rocket was that which came down on it’s side in the mud of the Medway and stayed there until last year, with it’s warhead and detonator intact, surprisingly it was used by the local sailing club as a mooring point until somebody raised the alarm and it was removed by the Royal Navy.
So, perhaps an airburst occurred when the rocket broke up and somehow detonated.
By the way, as a child I can remember playing in a playground in Deptford that had a remarkably intact A4 combustion chamber in the corner of the park. I suspect this is long gone.
Thanks once again for a fascinating video.
Great vid, very informative.
The technological level, about fifteen years ahead, and the concentration in a single nation are impressive.
Good job man. Great detective work.
Make the videos any length you want.
A superb video, the very "aircraft crash investigation" of one of the first ballistic missile attacks; well researched and presented in a scientific way.
Good to hear your original A4 air tank is still in tune, as the cost of re-tuning has skyrocketed nowadays.
Only just discovered this channel and I found this 'feature length' detailed analysis of Big Ben Incident 22 completely fascinating. I live in London and very interested in the Blitz, in fact it affected me personally as my grandfather only survived the explosion of a 'parachute mine' in Blackheath due to taking cover under a sturdy dining room table. Otherwise my mother (and me) wouldn't be here now. Quite amusing that Robert states at the start this is 'one of a series of short videos', so goodness knows how long the 'long videos' are :)
Wow this was so we'll done Robert, thank you so much for sharing such an important V2 historical proof of its balstic path and it's structures.
Best ever detailed analysis on V2. Thank you!
Great video but your microphone is really bad. The soundtrack is constantly saturated.
Well done work. I don't mind 2hours videos, but I think you could shorten the overview an placement section a little, without hurting the content. I do miss some in depth information of the difference between the impact from an airburst vs regular "big ben incident". Also 20 comercials are way over the top. I do understand the concept of founding, but I would rather see 5 longer commercials (same total time), than beeing interupted so much. (Actually, the suggestion of shortening the placement section, coincident with a cluster of annoying breaks. I might just be the commercials that gives me the feeling of a never ending section?)
Fabulously detailed examination of details and painstaking detective work. Completely enthralling. However the first part of the story I found very depressing in that the area in question in 2021 now looks a squalid third world pit compared to it's leafy lined roads back in 1944. Did we REALLY win the war?
That was amazing, well done, awesome detail, and so fascinating I watched twice !
Just found your channel again after all my channels suddenly had no subscription. Anyway totally fascinating video . Don't know how else to describe it. Thank you. Will look forward to seeing more.
This is so interesting! I can never get enough of German World War II documentary
This is incredible. I just found your channel from the turbo pump part 1.
You should get the software they use on TV where all you have to do is click enhance 3 times.
Good work fine sir
Further scrutiny of the two pictures at around 27:00 helps you to figure out what was wrong when you tried to align the pictures. Perspective was throwing you off.
It looks as though the church side footpath was covered in debris in the left picture, and some of that debris is partially hidden by the truck in the right picture, whilst more of it has been loaded into the back of the vehicle. It's there to be seen. The truck had clearly been moved across the road, as you said, to facilitate easy loading, likely after taking some of the debris away from in front of the houses.
So that apparent line of debris in the middle of the road was in fact on the footpath in front of the church. On the opposite side of the narrow street. It makes sense to keep the road clear for vehicle access and egress. A line of detritus in the middle of a narrow road would have hampered things, as any truck driver will confirm.
It's also possible that the church photograph was taken at a slightly later time of day, maybe an hour to 90 minutes later, as the slight shadows in both pictures show us. The opposite sequence to your thoughts. There was a little more sunlight in the second image, so the shadows are clearer at that time. Notice that they have swung noticeably clockwise by that time. (You can increase the contrast of the houses photograph to make the shadows under the vehicles more visible.)
There are, in fact, quite a number of people in both images. Look carefully at the right-hand side of the 'houses' image. Enlarge it and enhance it a little. Quite a few people were beyond the vehicles. I'd guess that the responders who were working in the street would have had the police and wardens there to keep most of them back. This is still done today whenever a disaster happens. Only essential and authorised personnel are allowed within the clear-up area. That would have been particularly important with wartime security being applied. If a piece of the weapon had been found and everyone had seen it, or worse still, if a reporter had seen it, then think what the Germans could have learned from the positive confirmation that their mission was responsible for the damage.
Of course, if I'm wrong with any of this analysis, I'll admit it!
The houses on the parallel street to St. Stephen's Road, the one behind the houses, as seen in the Google image, will also have suffered quite badly. I wonder whether any photographs of them were taken?
Well spotted with those railings!
Hello. Thanks for producing this video. I found it amazing to watch as you breakdown the various details in these pictures. A trip to England is on my bucket list from Canada and I hope to visit some of these museums and see first hand these horrific yet interesting pieces of history.
I don't think there is another resource on the whole internet that has as indepth and thorough technical information on the v2 as this channel.
About time I let you know how wonderful your channel is. Great stuff.
Fantastic!
ATTENTION: some serious background infos adding value to your examinations regarding "german"
1:06:30 shows a 617 for sure cause you missed the very first part of a german handwritten 7 which is a small vertical line running to the upper left corner - you had started too late for a german 7 each pupils learns to write cause you started only from the horizontal line !
1:11:49 has to be spelled "warme Semmeln" not "Wärme" cause "Wärme" is a noun standing for heat where "warme" means warm, a warm meal, not a cold one - and Semmeln is the bavarian word for bread roll, so warm bread roll is literally meant by the word, which is a decoy, a cover. And "warme Semmeln" for sure does not mean what you showed "hot cake" or "hot roll", only "warm bread roll" which is a typical german bavarian set of words with a unique meaning and context only understandable for native german speakers which has a different meaning than a meal or something to eat. It is important to understand cause that particular name is a decoy measurement to fool british translators cause it needs native speakers to bring that into the right context.
THEREFORE ATTENTION: most likely this "program hot bread roll" has nothing to do with a meal it is quite the opposite and is used for its meaning as a german saying that something "goes away like hot bread roll" or "es geht weg wie warme Semmeln" which means what?
The intention of the program sounds like 'to get rid of the inventory' cause "goes aways like hot bread roll" has a similiar english equivalent in "sells like hot cake" where the german saying has its orign in a bakery where the baker man is talking about the stuff he sold easily and that was not fresh bread, but the smaller bread rolls most likely people could afford easier and fit to their demand at that second when being or feeling hungry (saying from 18th century).
Therefore the program "warme Semmeln" has a kind of decoy covername cause "warme Semmeln" has nothing to do with rockets but with getting rid of stock / inventory which fits perfectly for the issue they faced then. Again: geht weg wie warme Semmeln or goes away like warm bread rolls is not only emphasizing on great sales, but mostly describes a situation of high demand where you run into a shortage like all people taking "americans" and no one take "berliner", both sweet bakeries you get in germany for a century and the sentence describes only that on your party people only seem to eat americans when saying "amerikaner gehen weg wie warme Semmeln" americans go away like warm bread rolls". Interesting that they choose such decoy project name cause it has no other intention than that cause the other intention meant would be like "to spit the brits into the soup" has its own saying "to spit someone into the meal / soup" but "warme Semmeln" can only be understood by a native speaker due to the mix of saying and bavarian "semmeln".
Lot of effort even for the code name of such a smaller project.
Yes an airburst. The men that lived were on the track the missile would have penetrated had it stayed together. Probably saved their lives when it broke apart. Standing under the track tells me you could have observed it coming down in pieces since when it broke up it would have slowed drastically so as to be able to see it clearly coming. Which would have been horribly frightening.
Thank you for these amazing video's. Have just stumbled upon them & the attention to detail is incredible.
What a brilliant forensic analysis! Thank you!
My gosh that was brilliant
I'm just catching up with your channel (2/22). You did a terrific job with the video -- please do more!
Brilliant job. May I ask what suite of tools you're using for these excellent videos? I recognize Photoshop, of course, and I think you're using the Hotkey Cursor Highlighter. I suspect you're using OBS? How are you using the mouse to pan around the image, and what effect are you using to fade your web cam into the lower left corner? Kudos in any event.
Excellent presentation of our war history in the UK. Greetings from BONBEACH Melbourne Victoria Australia.
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks
Fantastic historical analysis. Sincerely appreciated!
Absolutely compelling watching. Look forward to more in this vein.
Such delicious detail. Thank you SO much. I'm an aviation engineer, but I know nothing in the grand scheme of things.
What a lovely bit of enthusiastic detective work. You are so much better with the V2 than the telescope adjusting video. I was expecting a message from a slave written in blood. Now I have seen some unlikely stuff that the first man in space was ad unwilling as that Laika dog. No wonder the photos were illegal because deprived of feedback rickets would continue with limited performance. Check out Pedley Street E1 WW2 because there's loads of good archive and Crossrail had to snake through possible UXB's all over. Only building left standing in 5 acres Weaver House built post WW1 2 foot thick walls concrete floors and massive water tanks in lofts.