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    Silbervogel (German for "silver bird") was a design for a liquid-propellant rocket-powered sub-orbital bomber produced by Eugen Sänger and Irene Bredt...
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    Sombold So 344 – a rocket-powered plane with a detachable explosive nose. Silbervogel (Silverbird) – planned sub-orbital antipodal bomber. Zeppelin Fliegende...
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    a series of sub-orbital hops. This remarkable design was called the Silbervogel ("Silverbird") and would have relied on its fuselage creating lift (as...
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    during World War II by Eugen Sänger and Irene Bredt as part of the 1941 Silbervogel proposal. This was a design for a rocket-powered bomber able to attack...
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  • Sänger's proposed spaceplane, Silbervogel (English: Silver bird) be considered instead. When Hitler learns that the Silbervogel would be capable of bombing...
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    vehicles to maneuver under guided flight within the atmosphere. The Silbervogel was the first design for a hypersonic weapon and was developed by German...
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    wings. Perhaps the best-known of these today is Eugen Sänger's pre-war Silbervogel ("Silverbird") sub-orbital bomber. Included in the plan was a list of...
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    together with mathematician Irene Bredt, was a winged rocket called the Silbervogel (German for "silver bird"). During the 1950s, the United States Air Force...
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    Strike DARPA Falcon Project Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle Silbervogel Tupolev Tu-130 "Первый ракетный полк "Авангарда" заступил на боевое дежурство"...
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    Eugen Sänger worked on this René Lorin ramjet fighter project after his Silbervogel proposal for a suborbital glider to the Reich Air Ministry was rejected...
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    for the boost-glide concept for truly long-range use dates to the 1941 Silbervogel, a proposal by Eugen Sänger for a rocket powered bomber able to attack...
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    Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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    Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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  • Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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  • upon work carried out by Eugen Sänger and Irene Bredt for the German Silbervogel project. During the closing weeks of World War II, the German work at...
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    Silbervogel: Nazi Germany space weapon project....
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    HYFLEX Chongfu Shiyong Shiyan Hangtian Qi (disputed) Jiageng-1 Aircraft Silbervogel (Sänger bomber) Keldysh bomber Tupolev Tu-360, follow-on to Tu-160 Tupolev...
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  • Cyclone Canadian Armed Forces Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant Sikorsky VH-92 Silbervogel Project Plane Silence Twister (Silent Family Helmet Grossklaus, Westerrade...
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    of combustible alloys that it would burn during its ascent, and the Silbervogel bomber concept. World War II Germany and the postwar US considered winged...
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  • (Tina Rainford song), 1976 "Silver Bird", a song by the Guess Who, 1976 Silbervogel, a World War II German rocket bomber Silver Bird (streamliner), a land-speed...
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    Germany. Type 814 (Registration D-ANAB c/n 369) Flugzeug Restaurant Silbervogel, Hanover, Germany. Type 814 (Registration D-ANAF c/n 447) Technik Museum...
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    Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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  • proposal for a very long range bomber, some of which were spacecraft. Silbervogel, a Nazi Germany project from Sanger. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 project...
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  • Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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    assistance. History of aviation, for the work of the early pioneers. Silbervogel, a long-range bomber proposal, using a rail-mounted captive rocket booster...
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    Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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    Kingdom) Black Knight – (United Kingdom) Skylark – (United Kingdom) Silbervogel – (Nazi Germany) Martu Len Beadell Beatrice Shilling Roy Dommett Missiles...
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    Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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  • Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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    Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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