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V-2 Turbine Blade by
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This is a 1:1 scale replica of one of the turbine blades that powered the fuel and oxidizer pumps for the V-2 rocket. The rocket had a hydrogen peroxide reactor/rocket engine, which then directed the hot gases onto 172 of these blades, and turned a shaft that drove the main pumps.
Among other things, it was the first man-made object to pass the Karman line and enter space, and also the first man-made object to travel at hypersonic speeds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
The archive of the German Museum has all of the original drawings of the V-2 Rocket, If you look at the drawings they are occasionally marked up in english and have U.S. Army stamps on them.
You can see the translated full archive of all drawings here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.digipeer.de/index.php%3Fstatic%3D52
Among other things, it was the first man-made object to pass the Karman line and enter space, and also the first man-made object to travel at hypersonic speeds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
The archive of the German Museum has all of the original drawings of the V-2 Rocket, If you look at the drawings they are occasionally marked up in english and have U.S. Army stamps on them.
You can see the translated full archive of all drawings here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.digipeer.de/index.php%3Fstatic%3D52