Reminds me of a quote I had seen "Our main goal for a long time [developing the V2] was to make it more dangerous to be in the target area than to be part of the test crew." -- Wernher von Braun Jimmy F. TRA 12524 From: save children Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:50 AM To: tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: drrbk@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tccrockets] Re: V2 Photo? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SJ@xxxxxxx To: tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: drrbk@xxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 08:40:07 -0700 Subject: [tccrockets] Re: V2 Photo? Yes. I got a sharp set from launch to the sky. On this one, you can see the tape that must have held the nose cone on… =) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8469/8132579304_b849f2ac78_o.jpg With an email address, I can send others… I had posted it here, but have been slow in emailing out the heads up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/8133837834 Was that a LOC V2? Looks like the one I built: She also came back ballistic on the second flight (with an L730): http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/881316427/ Steve --------------------------------------------------------- Steve Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson Phone: 650-233-9000 Work: http://www.DFJ.com/steve Photoblog: http://www.DFJ.com/J Google Tech Talk: http://www.DFJ.com/GTT --------------------------------------------------------- From: "gary-walker@xxxxxxxxxxx" <gary-walker@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: TCC <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:45 PM To: TCC <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard King <drrbk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tccrockets] Re: V2 Photo? Just this static one. GW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Richard King" <drrbk@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 12:32:33 PM Subject: [tccrockets] V2 Photo? Did anyone get a picture of Gary Vielbaum’s big V2 going up on an M1939? It had a fancy paint job, flew well, came in hot. RK