Title:WASSERFALL, ENZIAN AND OTHER ROCKET TESTS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:GWY 1465
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Summary: Tests and launchings of Wasserfall, Enzian and other unidentified rockets.
Description: The assembly of a small (about 6 ft long) liquid fuelled rocket outside an observation blockhouse is first demonstrated. Two such rockets are fuelled with two liquids (one of them probably nitric acid). A diaphragm is fitted and the nose cone screwed on. An Enzian missile launch is then shown. One of its boosters breaks away and the missile somersaults out of the picture. A Wasserfall launch at night is shown. The missile lifts into the distance. A test rig firing of a small rocket motor housed in a long tube is shown. The wall of the tube ruptures and the rig is engulfed in flame. Several launches of a small rocket (shorter and fatter than the rocket shown earlier) are then shown. The rocket is loaded on to an inclined ramp (in the presence of various officers and civilians) and fired. Three launches are failures - two fall short while another stays in the launcher as its nose cone blasts off. (It is possible that the small rockets in this film are related to the Taifun rocket, to which they bear a superficial resemblance.)
