Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Estes Industries, Inc.
- Summary
- This is an assembled flying V-2 missile model, produced by Estes Industries. It is based on the Nazi V-2 missile that carried a 2,000 pound conventional warhead up to 200 miles and was used extensively against London, Antwerp, and other Allied cities during 1944-1945. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa nosecone and fins, and a plastic parachute. A solid propellant rocket motor propels the model, and then at the end of the vertical flight it forces the release of a parachute. The model is then retrieved and can be used again. Estes Industries donated the model to NASM in 1970.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Estes Industries
- ca. 1970 (model)
- Inventory Number
- A19700349000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Paper/cardboard, balsa wood, aluminum, plastic, rubber, twine, adhesive tape
- Dimensions
- Other: 14 x 2 1/2in. (35.56 x 6.35cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19700349000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv996bb8988-cf4d-4f54-8c09-edeb269ec7df
