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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
and I was told, OK, we create three different types. And that vehicle which we designed was an A7. You may have heard that we started out with an A3, and then the A3 couldn't carry the guidance as it was provided, or should have been provided for the A4. Couldn't carry it, and they therefore created the A5.

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And if you would now give the A5 wings too, that would be the predecessor of the A4 with wings.

{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld "}
Yeah, which was the A9.

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
OK. We had three types. One without any power plants, just dropped from aircraft to study the gliding capabilities of that vehicle. And the second one, with a power plant of a thousand kg, dropped from the aircraft, and the third one with a thousand five hundred kg power plant starting from the ground, and then glide.

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And I was in charge of the on the drawing board, of the A5, coming from the ground. And when I had finished this design, the boss liked that, and he called Von Braun. And Von Braun looked at it, he liked it too, and he asked me, would you be interested in taking care of that project completely.

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I said, yes, definitely so. So, we had that vehicle just on the test stand, when it was cancelled, as we were told at that time, well, the war won't take that long. And therefore, that doesn't make sense, anymore, to create such a vehicle. So it was dropped.

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And into this, in that project department, I was wondering what do I do now, and

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Transcription Notes:
"von Braun" is likely Wernher von Braun