Talk:V-2 rocket

message: It is not called "V-2" but "V2" in any war and post war documents.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.33.214.177 (talk) 03:35, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: I removed the inaccurate and insulting: caused modest damage near Porte d'Italie.
The blast killed seven person and wounded thirty-six other much more than the other V2 attack did the same day. It was at Maisons-Alfort in Paris suburbs, far from Porte d'Italie. 
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY - AAS History Series, Volume 21 - Chapter 5 - France and the Peenemünde legacy - ISBN 0-87703-439-7
some site http://www.armes-v.com/?p=984— Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.229.182.176 (talk) 02:40, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "modest damage" 

message: Here is a picture of the rear view (bottom if on a launch pad) view, showing the steering fins and engine exhaust port:  In case anyone wants to add it to the article. Gah4 (talk) 09:24, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  rear (bottom) view of the V2 showing fins 

message: This one shows the control logic of the V2: thumb|V2-control-logic Gah4 (talk) 09:29, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  V2 control logic 

message: Are the figures for the cost correct??? 'The rocket and the Reich' page 273 claims 'about half a billion WWII vintage dollars. By way of comparison, the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb cost the United States about 2 billion 1940s' dollars.'— Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.174.178.117 (talk) 15:57, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment 

message: I think the most glaring issue with this otherwise pretty decent piece is the first section, which is more a biography of Von Braun than a history of the V-2. A more general section on rocketry in Germany in the 20s and 30s (Dornberger's book is a good reference) would be more appropriate.
--Neopeius (talk) 04:59, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taking it to GA 

message: In the technical details section, it claims a wind tunnel with a 40 square centimeter chamber was used to measure the A-4's aerodynamic characteristics. However, a researchgate publication, whose authorship is accredited to Rudolf Hermann, states the chamber had a 40cmx40cm cross-section i.e., a 1600 square centimeter chamber.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300995361_THE_SUPERSONIC_WIND_TUNNEL_INSTALLATIONS_AT_PEENEMUNDE_AND_KOCHEL_AND_THEIR_CONTRIBUTIONS_TO_THE_AERODYNAMICS_OF_ROCKET-POWERED_VEHICLES Roisswiki (talk) 06:44, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supersonic wind tunnel dimensions 

message: @Wbm1058, suggest the first paragraph of “Development history” be replaced with the following:
:During the late 1920s, a young Wernher von Braun bought a copy of Hermann Oberth's book, Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Spaces). In 1928 a Raketenrummel or "Rocket Rumble" fad in the poular media was initiated by Fritz von Opel and Max Valier, a collaborator of Oberth, by experimenting with rockets, including public demonstrations of manned rocket cars and rocket planes.  The “Rocket Rumble” was highly influential on von Braun as a teenage space enthusiast. He was so enthusiastic after seeing one of the public Opel-RAK rocket car demonstrations, that he constructed and launched his own homemade toy rocket car in a crowded sidewalk and was later taken in for questioning by the local police, until released to his father for disciplinary action.
Ilenart626 (talk) 13:09, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Have now updated the section Ilenart626 (talk) 00:59, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update to Development history section