Max Valier
From The Space Library
Fritz von Opel drives Max Valier's solid rocket propelled RAK-2 car at the Avus race track (c. May 1928)
Max Valier with his solid rocket propelled railway carriage RAK-1 (ca. 1928)
Max Valier and his RAK-1 solid-rocket propelled ice sled. (c. Jan 1929)
Max Valier RAK-2 solid-rocket ice sled (c. 1929)
Max Valier in his solid-rocket propelled RAK-3 aircraft (c. 1929)
Max Valier in his RAK-5 gas propelled car. (ca. Nov 1929)
Max Valier drives his RAK-6 compressed gas propelled car at Avus speedway, Germany (Dec 22 1929)
Paul Heylandt and Max Valier, April 1930, with Rak 7 LOX/Alcohol rocket car. Walter Riedel in white lab coat in the background
Valier fires the engine on the RAK-7 rocket car, April 1930, representing the first time a liquid fuelled rocket had propelled a manned vehicle.
Max Valier's RAK-7 liquid fuelled rocket car in the Deutsches Museum.
Heylandt/Riedel rocket car test firing engine 160kg thrust (c. April 1931).
The image above is taken at Heylandt factory in Berlin-Britz after Valier's death. Work continued with Riedel, Heylandt and Arthur Rudolph. Cylindrical fuel tank at front, large spherical oxygen tank in rear.
