Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car

Quiller · August 10, 2009, 09:27:02 AM

What's the make and model designation of this car?

Quiller · September 08, 2009, 12:43:57 PM

Expertos?

Ray B. · September 08, 2009, 05:21:39 PM

I love that one.

Otto Puzzell · September 09, 2009, 04:14:20 AM

Is the car being followed bY a UFO?

Quiller · September 09, 2009, 07:09:29 PM

Or maybe ectoplasm...

guido66 · September 12, 2009, 10:01:19 AM

±1930 Liquid oxygen car, built by Dr. Paul Heylandt, German liquid air expert, and Max Valier

Quiller · September 13, 2009, 04:11:55 PM

Yes!!

Wendax · 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.

grobmotorix · November 04, 2013, 11:42:21 AM

Better add the name RAK 7, because RAK 6 has looked very similar:

Wendax · 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.

grobmotorix · 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...

Carnut · 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!

Allan L · 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?

grobmotorix · 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.

Oguerrerob · September 10, 2021, 06:03:35 AM

A Max Valier presentation in Aconcagua, Argentina

grobmotorix · 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.

Oguerrerob · 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

Wendax · 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.

grobmotorix · 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 isn´t...

grobmotorix · 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...

Arunas · November 08, 2021, 12:13:25 PM

Good front end photo

grobmotorix · November 08, 2021, 12:36:37 PM

Wendax · July 21, 2023, 03:51:45 PM

An old picture showing it at display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich:

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Q583 - solved - 1930 Valier Heylandt rocket car