Quiz: Efterkrigstiden

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Tack

Söker ett företag vars grundare föddes 1939 och företaget nationaliserades 1987.
Affärsiden var lågbudget inom sin branch.

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Det finns kopplingar till både nazister och Mobuto

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Nationaliseringen skedde inte i företagets hemland

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Företaget fick både Valéry Giscard d'Estaing och Leonid Brezhnev mot sig.

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Bra fråga!

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Grundaren levde sina sista år på Marshallöarna

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Även Khadaffi finns med i företagets historia

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Det gäller raketer

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Bra fråga. Verkar som Dr Gerald Bull har en okänd kusin.

Ser fram emot svaret.

[Femtiotrean]

Jag som trodde att du redan hade svaret, men ville inte ge det av den inte helt osällsynta - eller den gamla vanliga - orsaken att du hade ingen bra fråga till hands och orkade inte/hade inte tid att söka inspiration by perspiration!

Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators

Lutz Kayser designed a low-cost launch system and with his wife Susi spent years in the Libyan desert working for Muammar Gaddafi – ‘such a wonderful man’

What threw me var nationaliseringen; jag trodde att man hade lämnat bara skräp och oanvändbara delar och byggnader i den libyanska öknen.

Extravaganzen mit Gaddafi

Nach heftigen internen Auseinandersetzungen hat sich die Münchner Raketenfirma Otrag vorerst aus Libyen zurückgezogen.

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OTRAG (German: Orbital Transport-und Raketen-Aktiengesellschaft) was founded on October 17, 1974 by the German aerospace engineer Lutz Kayser. OTRAG's goal was to develop, produce, and operate a low-cost satellite launch vehicle. It was the first private company to attempt to launch a private spacecraft. The OTRAG rocket was intended to be an inexpensive alternative to the European rocket Ariane and the NASA Space Shuttle.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG

Otrag: Jahrzehnte vor Elon Musk gründete Lutz Kayser seine Raketenfirma

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A Swedish connection:

A fascinating project briefly touched Esrange. A private German project to build an inexpensive satellite launcher was announced - OTRAG. The rocket was going to be assembled from a large number of modular boosters. Testing would start with the launch of a single rocket, burning red fuming nitric acid and diesel oil. Gradually more powerful combinations would be assembled and tested.

The flamboyant director of the project visited Esrange in his search for a suitable launch site. He came in his LearJet and was dressed in an impressive wolf fur coat. At the Ferrum hotel he asked to buy the piano! Another small detail that impressed us was that ordinary car windscreen wiper motors were going to be used in the rocket design. What could be more reliable in relation to cost?

Unfortunately, in the end the launch site was established in Zaïre, where an enormous land area was made available. Only one or two launches to low altitude of the basic rocket module took place. There was a lingering suspicion that the whole project might have been a cover to acquire some very valuable real estate in Zaïre... Then the launching activities were suddenly moved to Khadaffi’s Libya. A number of launches were performed from there, until an article in the German magazine Stern revealed the operation. Of course, there was concern that Khadaffi might get hold of a rocket for military purposes. But OTRAG also survived this affair.

In 1983 the next launch took place - this time from Esrange. The rocket flew normally for about ten seconds, when it suddenly exploded. The commission of inquiry found out that the reason was a payload problem. An opening had been made in the nose cone in front of the lens of a photometer. There was no glass cover. When the rocket accelerated, the rectangular hole acted just like an organ pipe. This led to vibrations which caused the explosion.

The failure became the final straw for the investors, and the OTRAG company was dissolved. - So far, OTRAG is the one and only liquid rocket we have launched from Esrange!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG_(ro ... ht_history

[Femtiotrean]

Tre bilder från tre olika länder:

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Vad är det vi ser i alla tre bilder? Vad har skett? Var? När?

[Amund]

Vet inte säkert var bilderna är tagna förutom den sista som indikerar Montreal? Är däremot ganska säker på att det är sensommar 1972 och Idi Amin är anledningen till denna ofrivilliga och för Uganda förödande exodus av ugandiska indier..?

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In early August 1972, the President of Uganda Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of his country's Indian minority, giving them 90 days to leave the country. At the time of the expulsion, there were about 80,000 individuals of Indian descent in Uganda, of whom 23,000 had their applications for citizenship both processed and accepted. The expulsion took place against the backdrop of anti-Indian sentiment and black supremacy in Uganda, with Amin accusing a minority of the Asians of disloyalty, non-integration, and commercial malpractice, claims that Indian leaders disputed. Amin defended the expulsion by arguing that he was "giving Uganda back to ethnic Ugandans".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion ... rom_Uganda

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article ... else-will/


Amund har frågan!

[Amund]

Tack för frågan.


Förunderliga bilder:

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Vad, när, var har hänt ?