Oil spray rocket

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A Ölsprührakete is a rocket that will help wave calming oil can be sprayed to the rescue of shipwrecked in strong storm the waves to smooth. The surf and the agitated sea can be soothed by pouring oil on the water. Due to its even rotation around the longitudinal axis, the oil spray package distributes the oil extremely finely and effectively.

The oil spray rocket was a development of the Deutsche Raketengesellschaft, today's Hermann Oberth Society . The launch of the oil spray rocket on August 23, 1957 was the first rocket experiment in Cuxhaven after Operation Backfire . The oil spray rocket was released for commercial use in 1960.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Missiles against distress at sea . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , No. 297 of December 22, 1958.
  2. ↑ Harald Lutz: The forgotten rocket experiments from Cuxhaven . In: Stars and Space , March 2005, pp. 40–45. (PDF, 424 kB)
  3. ^ Friedrich Domay: Handbook of the German scientific societies. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1964, p. 324.