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SANGER GERMANY'S ORBITAL ROCKET BOMBER IN WWII
Book Type: C, O By David Myhra. Eugen Sanger's proposed manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. Sanger proposed a flying machine capable of dropping a 2,000 pound bomb on American east coast cities of New York and Washington, D.C., as well as Chicago and Pittsburgh. Sanger's orbital bomber would have been launched from a monorail track 1.8 miles long, and pushed to 1,113 miles/hour via captive V2 rocket engines. The Sanger bomber would lift off its monorail and would immediately go into a 30 degree climb. Seven to eight minutes later, it would have reached 80 miles altitude with a forward speed of 13,000 miles per hour. As the separated weapon glided away and down toward New York City, the Sanger machine itself was passing high over the city returning home to Germany across the Atlantic. The world's first intercontinental bomber project, the Sanger orbital bomber's total flight time was expected to be no more than two hours. The complete story is told here for the first time. Over 575 b/w and color photographs. 176 pp. 
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