Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

[magnemoe]

True, kinda sorta. The V-1 was a rocket powered (pulse-jet) glider... a flying bomb, akin to a cruise missile. Being the first of its kind, and first flight(s) of such, with Hanna onboard, I'd still give it (her) credit. The German program may be irrelevant to the Space Race proper, but were it not for their technology there would have been no space race in the first place. You have to give credit where credit is due.

An pulse jet is an jet engine, it was used as it was cheap and v1 was an single use weapon, yes it used solid fuel to get airborne it also had an piloted version to test the controls, the problem was landing it as it was not designed to land and major modification would mess up the performance, almost wonder why they simply not used an braking parachute followed by bailout for the few manned tests.

[Bill Phil]

An pulse jet is an jet engine, it was used as it was cheap and v1 was an single use weapon, yes it used solid fuel to get airborne it also had an piloted version to test the controls, the problem was landing it as it was not designed to land and major modification would mess up the performance, almost wonder why they simply not used an braking parachute followed by bailout for the few manned tests.

Rockets are basically jet engines, minus the turbine at the back and carrying all the propellant with them.

The compressor may also not be present, but it is large engines. (Turbopumps).

[Kibble]

How did this evolve into the semantics of rocket engine terminology? Germany's V2 was the first human-made object to fly above the Karman Line. The first Homo sapiens to fly above the Karman Line was also the first Homo sapiens to orbit Earth, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1.

Edited March 22, 2015 by Kibble
tater called me out, lol D:<

[Kryten]

True, kinda sorta. The V-1 was a rocket powered (pulse-jet) glider... a flying bomb, akin to a cruise missile. Being the first of its kind, and first flight(s) of such, with Hanna onboard, I'd still give it (her) credit. The German program may be irrelevant to the Space Race proper, but were it not for their technology there would have been no space race in the first place. You have to give credit where credit is due.

Pulsejets are air-breathing engines irrelevent to rocketry, and rocket flight predated the tests of Reichenberg considerably-the first crewed flight was by Fritz Stamer in 1928. Reitsch wasn't even the first person to fly a powered Reichenberg.

An pulse jet is an jet engine, it was used as it was cheap and v1 was an single use weapon, yes it used solid fuel to get airborne it also had an piloted version to test the controls, the problem was landing it as it was not designed to land and major modification would mess up the performance, almost wonder why they simply not used an braking parachute followed by bailout for the few manned tests.

The control test version of the story is a myth. The flights with Reitsch were actually of the Reichenberg variant, a crewed suicide weapon.

[magnemoe]

Pulsejets are air-breathing engines irrelevent to rocketry, and rocket flight predated the tests of Reichenberg considerably-the first crewed flight was by Fritz Stamer in 1928. Reitsch wasn't even the first person to fly a powered Reichenberg.

The control test version of the story is a myth. The flights with Reitsch were actually of the Reichenberg variant, a crewed suicide weapon.

Ok so the Wikipedia version is the story from the ones behind the program: this is test versions for performance and stability measurements for an groundbreaking new engine, sounds better than insane suicide program then interviewed by people pointing guns at you.

[tater]

How did this evolve into the semantics of rocket engine terminology? Germany's V2 was the first human-made object to fly above the Karman Line. The first Homo Sapiens to fly above the Karman Line was also the first Homo Sapiens to orbit Earth, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1.

This. It was brought up because of the claim some german test pilot was the first because she flew a jet at low altitude.

BTW, it's Homo sapiens, the generic name is capitalized, the specific name never is (yeah, I'm being pedantic).

[StrandedonEarth]

My turn to argue semantics: In my view, a jet engine is an air-breather, which includes the V-1's pulsejet. A rocket engine carries its own oxidizer. Beyond that, they both use the expansion of hot gasses to generate thrust.