Beck, Georg
Person · Germany
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German Professor. Dresden rocket engine scientist.
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Chronology
2 events
1941-1944
Launch Site: Peenemuende. Launch Complex: Peenemuende. Launch Vehicle: V-2.- A4 engine improvements - .
Nation: Germany.
Related Persons: Beck,
Thiel, Walter.
Throughout the early 1940's Thiel and his team sought to produce a single chamber 25 tonne thrust engine in place of the kludged prototype engine that used 18 separate 1.5 tf chambers. They managed to demonstrate a 60 second burn time in the 18-chamber design, but the engine itself was considered too complicated to fabricate in production, requiring thousands of hand-assembled tubes to introduce fuel and oxidiser into the chamber. Thiel sought to replace these thousands of tubes with a simpler injection system - rows of simple bored holes on a flat injector plate at the head of the chamber. Beck at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden developed a ring-pattern injector that worked well in subscale engines. But the design proved unstable in the 25 tf engine. Therefore, it was decided to stick with the 18-head chamber for V-2 production.
1943 January 1
- Death of Georg Beck. - . Related Persons: Beck. German Professor. Dresden rocket engine scientist..