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07-23-2006, 08:15 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Lady Lake Fl USA
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  |  Hello My name is Tom and I live in the north georgia mts in Gainesville.I'm interested in the early jet aircraft.One quetion?Is there a number about how many V1 cuise missles were fillipped over By either the meteor or other aircraft.These were not 'shot down' but brought down.What was the tactic they used to bring these buzz bombs down. |
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07-23-2006, 08:19 AM
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| Minister of Whoopass   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| Mainly the Tempests were assigned the duty, and they would dive on the Buzz Bomb, get very close to it and tip their wingtip over and flip the bomb into the ground...
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07-23-2006, 09:04 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Saffron Walden/Sheffield
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 | Only if they'd exhausted their guns would they do it
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07-25-2006, 05:56 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| I used to own a training card that had model pictures and a diagram for that manuever, but have lost it in the many moves I have done. It was a fairly simple manuever, just took timing and some nerve.
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