I meant Saenger's two stage orbital designs with HTOL and VTVL, not his nazi
era Silberfogel (which was intended to bomb NY by the way).
Drawings of that two stages combo were largely printed in rocketry books
during the fifties.
The Saenger II project (see URL) dates from after he was gone (+1964) unless
it was his too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4nger_(Raumtransportsystem)
John
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, johndom@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The wonder of Skylon is it is an SSTO.
I doubtn if Eugene Saenger had a *commercial* supersonic carrier
launch platform in mind in the forties for his two stage hthl design.
Which objective was an intercontinental bomber iirc albeit with an
ssto potential given reentry tiles or Skylon skin.