The Nazi government had plans to send a rocket from Germany to New York, called “Projektil Amerika.” Here is a scaled version flight of that two-stage design, the fins of the A-9 upper stage protrude from the interstage coupler to the A-10 booster. The upper stage would have to follow a string of radio-beacons deployed on submarines spread across the Atlantic, and for its final guidance, the rocket could use a transmitter installed by Nazi agents in a window of a high-rise hotel in the heart of Manhattan. This was quite difficult, and so the design moved to a manned version with a kamikaze pilot. Stranger than Dr. Strangelove, the first flight was targeted for 1946.
This reenactment brought the upper stage in ballistic, plowing into the ground between a couple photographers. (more below)
What appears to be a failure of the A-10 booster or the separation charge overhead
Sending the A-9 sustainer back at us, with the full weight of the luckily unlit motor onboard
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