Agency: None
    Time: 1447 MST
    Altitude: 3.4 miles

UPPER AIR INSTRUMENTS

Cosmic Radiation: Single geiger counter with lead shield (APL).

DATA RECOVERY INSTRUMENTS

    Telemeter: None
    Recorder: Brass tape recorder (APL).

BALLISTIC INSTRUMENTS

    Firing Range
        Optical Instruments: None recorded
        Radar: A modified SCR-584 S-Band station

    Airborne
        Beacon: S-Band transponder
        Radio Cutoff: AN/ARW-17. FM control receiver for command fuel cutoff.

ROCKET PERFORMANCE

    Firing angle: 0.0 degrees
    Program angle: No data
    Time to burnout: 19.0 sec.
    Altitude at burnout: No data
    Velocity at burnout: No data
    Time to zenith: No data
    Altitude to zenith: 3.4 miles
    Time to blowoff: No blowoff installation
    Altitude to blowoff:
    Flight duration: No data
    Impact Coordinates: 0.0 miles north, 6.0 miles east
    Payload weight: No data (about 2200 lbs.)
    Unfueled rocket weight: 8530 lbs.
    Unfueled rocket C.G.: No data
    Gross weight at takeoff: No data

BALLISTIC DATA

    None recorded.

DATA RECOVERY

    Recorder: Did not operate, rocket did not attain sufficient acceleration to activate "g" switch.
    Physical recovery: Rocket demolished

EXPERIMENTAL DATA

    None.

COMMENTS

    Rocket performance: Control system failure, broken jet vane, fuel cutoff by radio at 19.5 sec
        when rocket deviated 90 degrees to east. Structural failure of fin 4 prior to cutoff. Rocket
        demolished at impact from explosion of unused propellants.

REPORTS AND PAPERS

    Project Hermes Report of 21 April 1946
    "V-2 Report No. 3" Minutes of V-2 Upper Atmosphere Research Panel.
    "Final Report, Project Hermes V-2 Missile Program," by L. D. White, Report No. R52A0510,
        General Electric Co., September 1952.