Talk:Johannes Winkler

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HW-1
The German version of this page says HW-1 rose 60 meters and landed 200 meters from the launch point. The English article here says it rose 1000 feet (305 meters). astronautix.com says it flew 500 meters. Looking at Willy Ley's book, we get some clue to the confusion, he says the rocket was _planned_ to reach 500 meters, but it failed to do so because it did not fly vertically.

Finally I found a quote by Winkler from his journal (in Peter Alway's book), stating that the rocket was planned to reach 500 meters but turned horizontally and landed 200 meters from the pad. He does not give an altitude and I believe that altitude is simply unknown.

I will edit the article to reflect this. DonPMitchell (talk) 06:54, 27 November 2009 (UTC)