Talk:Taifun (rocket)

Copyvio?
A lot of the previous text looks copied directly from John Christopher's The Race for Hitler's X-Planes (The Mill, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2013), p.131. I've tried rewording, but... TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  02:41, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Issue resolved via the addition of cited sources including the UK ministry of Supply official report on the Taifun. Report became available in 2009 and is published on the US Defence technical information center. Stivushka (talk) 18:14, 29 November 2020 (UTC) Stivushka (talk) 18:00, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Rocket Propellant - Source Conflict
UK Ministry of Supply gives Fuel as Visol and the Oxidant as Salbei (Red Fuming Nitric Acid) in its 1946 report on the Taifun.

John Clark (US Rocket Scientist) gives Tonka 250 as the Fuel but does not clearly identify an oxidiser. Clark is a well respected author and scientist with access to classified sources. That said Clark’s account is not first hand (he started working in 1949) and he does not cite his source (s).

George Sutton, another eminent rocket scientist and former executive director of engineering at Rocketdyne gives Butly Ethel as the Taifun's fuel in a book published by the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. I suspect Sutton (who passed away at the age of 100 last month - RIP) may have meant Viynl Butly Ethel as this is a Visol and it appears in in the page dealing with Visols. However once again we can't do WP;OR so will quote along with Tonka 250 as one of the "alternate sources".

It is plausible that multiple fuel/oxidiser combinations were tried however I cannot state this as it would be “Original Research”. I will follow accepted Wilipedia norms for conflicting sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflicting_sources Stivushka (talk) 07:26, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Primacy will be given to the UK Ministry of Supply’s report. This is a reasonable position as they had access to the actual rockets and interrogated the project team. The other sources are not first hand and don't cite how they came by the information.

Stivushka (talk) 18:00, 19 November 2021 (UTC)