Mail rocket
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A mail rocket is a type of rocket used for transporting mail. Especially around 1930 there were several experiments with mail rockets. Nevertheless, there was no regular operational use.
[edit] Gerhard Zucker
Main article: Rocket mail#Pioneers
One experiment by German rocket scientist Gerhard Zucker between the islands of Harris and Scarp in the Outer Hebrides and was the basis of the 2001 film The Rocket Post (Film).[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "The Rocket Post (2001)". Film Hebrides. http://www.filmhebrides.com/folio/rocket/. Retrieved 10 October 2009.[dead link]
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