Peenemunde Wind Tunnels: A Memoir

by Peter P. Wegener

Book Overview

In 1943, on orders from the German Air Ministry, young physicist Peter P. Wegener left the Russian front and reported to the Baltic village of Peenem nde. His assignment was to work at the supersonic wind tunnels of the rocket laboratories of the German Army. Here Wernher von Braun led a team that developed the V-2, the world's first large rocket-powered guided missile, and laid much of the groundwork for postwar rocket development.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300063679
• ISBN13: 9780300063677
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"