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Title: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: Quiller on August 10, 2009, 09:27:02 AM
What's the make and model designation of this car?
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Post by: Quiller on September 08, 2009, 12:43:57 PM
Expertos?
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Post by: Ray B. on September 08, 2009, 05:21:39 PM
I love that one.
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 09, 2009, 04:14:20 AM
Is the car being followed bY a UFO?
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Post by: Quiller on September 09, 2009, 07:09:29 PM
Or maybe ectoplasm...
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Post by: guido66 on September 12, 2009, 10:01:19 AM
ą1930 Liquid oxygen car, built by Dr. Paul Heylandt, German liquid air expert, and Max Valier
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Post by: Quiller on September 13, 2009, 04:11:55 PM
Yes!!
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: Wendax on November 02, 2013, 06:27:46 AM
The car was also known as Rak 7. Max Valier and Dr. Paul Heylandt standing next to it in the picture below, while Rak 7 is being filled up with liquid oxygen.
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: grobmotorix on November 04, 2013, 11:42:21 AM
Better add the name RAK 7, because RAK 6 has looked very similar:
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: Wendax on November 04, 2013, 03:43:29 PM
Rak 6 had was propelled by evaporating fluid carbonic acid. Rak 7 was the same car, but with a different engine, a rocket engine using liquid oxygen.
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: grobmotorix on September 29, 2020, 01:24:03 PM
Just for fun - while driving to Modena Motor Gallery 2020 I recently came across the Max Valier Str. that did appear on my navigation by chance.
Now after my holidays I checked it and it is indeed "our" Max Valier.

No visible puzzle pic any more, btw...
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: Carnut on September 29, 2020, 02:40:44 PM
Quote from: grobmotorix on September 29, 2020, 01:24:03 PM
No visible puzzle pic any more, btw...

There is now!
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Post by: Allan L on September 29, 2020, 04:32:39 PM
Liquid oxygen is a useful but dangerous substance, but what fuel did it oxidise in its rocket motor?
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Post by: grobmotorix on October 08, 2020, 08:57:35 AM
It was definitly dangerous and Max Valier died from an explosion.
He is considered to be the first death toll from space technology.
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: Oguerrerob on September 10, 2021, 06:03:35 AM
A Max Valier presentation in Aconcagua, Argentina
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Post by: grobmotorix on September 10, 2021, 10:47:00 AM
Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 10, 2021, 06:03:35 AM
A Max Valier presentation in Aconcagua, Argentina
This photo was definitly shot at the AVUS race track (Berlin, Germany) in 1930
I am quite sure, that Mr. Valier never has visited South America.
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: Oguerrerob on September 10, 2021, 11:07:34 AM
Archivo Nacional de Argentina has it tagged as the picture was taken in Aconcagua, Argentina. I can't assure if it's truth
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Post by: Wendax on September 10, 2021, 11:59:54 AM
Things are getting mixed up here. The original puzzle was about the Valier-Heylandt Rak 7.

Oguerrerob's and grobmotorix' pictures show the Valier Rak 6, basically the same car, but with a completely different engine.
The Rak 6 pictures were taken on December 19, 1929, at the Avus racetrack in Berlin.
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: grobmotorix on September 10, 2021, 12:41:51 PM
Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 10, 2021, 11:07:34 AM
Archivo Nacional de Argentina has it tagged as the picture was taken in Aconcagua, Argentina. I can't assure if it's truth

It isnīt... ;)
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: grobmotorix on September 10, 2021, 12:43:06 PM
Quote from: Wendax on September 10, 2021, 11:59:54 AM
Things are getting mixed up here. The original puzzle was about the Valier-Heylandt Rak 7.

Oguerrerob's and grobmotorix' pictures show the Valier Rak 6, basically the same car, but with a completely different engine.
The Rak 6 pictures were taken on December 19, 1929, at the Avus racetrack in Berlin.

 Indeed - only I did not want to open that topic, too...
Title: Re: Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car
Post by: Arunas on November 08, 2021, 12:13:25 PM
Good front end photo :)
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Post by: grobmotorix on November 08, 2021, 12:36:37 PM
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wendax on July 21, 2023, 03:51:45 PM
An old picture showing it at display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich: