My V2 photos, on web courtesy of James Robertson.

    http://web.mit.edu/jsr/www/v2/index.html

Pictures are 640 x 480 and you can click on them to see full size images
(270 kB to 1 MB)

The general underneath view (PICT9359 1 MB) and jet vane with hand (PICT9371
282 kB) give the best impressions of the working of the 'steering"
mechanism. Also a good view into the chamber and some impression of the
injectors. I have about as many again of wider views of body etc.

Bruno Berger in Switzerland has posted some diagrams. He says:

Every pic is about 1 MByte due to the highres!. They decorate our offices
:-) :

http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200001.jpg
This is a sectional drawing of the turbo pump. I was surprised how advanced
it was. Today's turbo pumps don't look different much.

http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200004.jpg
An overview of the V2 combustion chamber

http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200003.jpg
dito, more detailed. You can see what kind of a welder's and plumber's
nightmare it was.

http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200006.jpg
details of the shower head

http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200007.jpg
This is probably not V2, I guess its a "Wasserfall". But it has a lot of
design similarities to the V2. It was a surface-to-air missile and used
storable liquid propellants (Nitric acid etc.) and can be considered as the
predecessor of the scuds.
More infos about this missile:
http://www.luft46.com/missile/wasserfl.html
http://www.netaxs.com/people/ebailey/wasserfall.html

http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200008.jpg
the rear of the Wasserfall

http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200009.jpg
An injector head of an surface to air missile (I don't think it's from the
Wasserfall) just finished before the end of the war in Europe. This is IMO
the most astonishing blueprint. If you study the details of the design, then
you realize *how* advanced the German rocketeers were at the end of the war.
A monolithically impingement injector as its still built today. Guess why
the early US injectors look like that :-)

And because my engineers heart beats faster when I see such a masterpiece,
here a close-up view of the blueprint above:
http://www.spl.ch/temp/V2/Bild%200010.jpg

Enjoy :-)

Bruno

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