Summary: A collection of small items showing trials of Walter rocket motors and power units, and of hardware using them.
Description: The film includes: a mine projector (from GWY 1523 WASSERBOMBENWURFE), a hydrofoil (see GWY 1529 TRAGFLÄCHENBOOT), the 'Schwerer Wurfkörper' (from GWY 1669), torpedoes, the split-tube catapult firing a dummy body (from GWY 1522), rocket assisted take-off units in static tests, on an He 111 and on a BV 138 (see GWY 1425-GWY 1432), a trial drop with an Hs 293 (see GWY 1434 - GWY 1442), the BV 143-Katapult (from GWY 1520), the V1, the Me 163A and Me 163B (some footage from GWY 1317 - GWY 1320, but also some new material including an engine test in Agfacolor and a close-up of the test pilot (Opitz)), a small experimental U-boat (at sea and interior shots) and the larger U-boat Wa 201 (U 792) seen in the Kaiser Wilhelm canal in 11/1943.
Production Details: (H) Walter KG, Kiel (Production sponsor)
Walterwerk, Kiel (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Opitz, Rudolph (person)
Keywords: equipment, German air - propulsion: rocket motor & [R and D] (object name)
weapons, German naval - rocket: Walter rocket mine projector & [R and D] (object name)
ships, German naval - hydrofoil: Walter rocket-powered hydrofoil & [R and D] (object name)
ships, German naval - amphibious: [R and D] (object name)
armour, German - funnies: F-Schlepper & [R and D] (object name)
weapons, German - torpedo: [R and D] (object name)
equipment, German air - propulsion: Walter catapult & [R and D] (object name)
equipment, German air - propulsion: Walter rocket assisted take-off & [R and D] (object name)
weapons, German - missile: V1 & [R and D] (object name)
aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet & [R and D] (object name)
ships, German naval - submarine, midget: [R and D] (object name)
ships, German naval - submarine: Wa 201 (object name)
