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11-12-2007, 08:10 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lincoln
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| Vergeltungswaffen On the 23rd of June 1944 a Spitfire pilot tried a new and rash method of dealing with a V-1. He flew alongside the missile and according to the official RAF history 'threw the flying bomb on its back by tipping it with his wing so that it fell out of control'. News soon spread and every hotshot pilot was soon keen to have a go. One Polish pilot of No.316 squadron successfully flipped the wing of a V-1, only to watch in horror as it rolled back and snapped the end off his own light alloy wing. He made a hasty but safe landing. |
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11-25-2007, 06:55 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Limburg
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 | It may have seemed so but the pilots didn't touch the wings of these flying bombs. They had to hold their wings underneath the wings of the bomb which would disrupt air flow of the V1 making it lose control and crash prematurely. Kris
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12-03-2007, 06:42 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ankeny, Iowa
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| Am I thinking right that this messed up the gyroscope?
__________________ Bryon O P-61 Black Widow-Mistress of the Night! "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." George S. Patton "Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government." "Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away." |
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