(WaltBJ) wrote in message . com...
steve gallacci wrote in message ...
robert arndt wrote:

http://www.germanvtol.com/a6folder/a6.html
Rob
A pretty weak connection. Also, keep in mind that the very late war
projects were largely make work and fantasy fuel for the Furher rather
than anything that could be promptly realized. In the case of a ramjet
mount on the X-15, the lower fin would have been the only place it could
have been fitted, having nothing to do with anything the Germans did.

SNIP: Every designer's scratch pad had advanced designs - still do,
for that matter. I was designing better rocketships than Buck Rogers
flew when I was in grade school before Pearl Harbor. Didn't do my
grades any good, but sure helped my day dreams. Why not cite Dr.
Sanger's designs - they were a lot more advanced than any A6,9 or 10.
And there's a lot of work and time between a pretty picture and the
first flight.
Walt BJ

Good point as Dr. Sangers design has been modified and still lives
under the German TAV 2-stage space project. But the point is that many
of the "paper projects" being made fun of here on this NG actually
influenced postwar design to the point of being built/tested. I'm not
saying the X-15 is directly derived from the EMW A6, only that the
design of the German project was seriously considered by the US and
many of their rocket projects certainly influenced postwar US rocket
programs- both manned and unmanned. The EMW A6 does bear a strong
resemblence to the X-15 though in basic configuration...

Rob