V2 EXHAUST FLAME MELTS MOORING PLATES
Received Monday 8.20 p.m. NEW YORK, April 1. Instruments which will radio the 'atmospheric pressure and temperature, also the missile's speed, will he installea in a German V2 which army experimenters at the White Sands (New Mexico) testing grounds on May 8 will fire 100 miles high. The army recently lashed down another V2 in a steel-lined pit and set tne propulsion going full speed, 'whereupon the exhaust flame melted the half-inch thick steel plates from the moorings and blew them 100 feet.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1946, Page 5
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