On 15/8/2022 3:47 am, Rod Speed wrote:

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVfeGD5SnA

Has ( almost ) everything you ever wanted to know.
Excellent pic quality.

Brilliant. That is something you do well, finding stuff like that.

These non professional videos certainly make it very obvious
how much effort has to go into making the professional stuff.

You do have to wonder how much sense it makes to make
such an expensive device that most of the time just blows
up a house or two at the target.

The beginnings of terrorism?

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On 15/08/2022 3:47 am, Rod Speed wrote:

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVfeGD5SnA

Has ( almost ) everything you ever wanted to know.
Excellent pic quality.

Brilliant. That is something you do well, finding stuff like that.

These non professional videos certainly make it very obvious
how much effort has to go into making the professional stuff.

You do have to wonder how much sense it makes to make
such an expensive device that most of the time just blows
up a house or two at the target.

Because it scared the shit out of the population hearing the thing
approach not knowing whether it was going to land on them or not. It was
a lot more effective than the V2 because they just happened without
warning. They disrupted life in the target area.

One of my earliest memories (aged 3 or 4) is being thrown under a
trolley on the platform of a London railway station by a well meaning
yank soldier (or so I was told) when a V1 cut out overhead. He obviously
had my welfare at heart, but I ended up bruised, and the V1 landed
miles away (they glided for some distance after the engine stopped).

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Xeno wrote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVfeGD5SnA

Has ( almost ) everything you ever wanted to know.
Excellent pic quality.

The beginnings of terrorism?

** Terror bombing began in WW1 with the use of Zeppelins to deliver bombs on London at night.

FYI: The V in V1 stands for vengeance - ie Hitler's revenge on those who tried to defend themselves.
It was a comparatively low cost weapon, hard to intercept or shoot down, while putting no German airmen's lives at risk.
OTOH, the V2 rocket was expensive but impossible to intercept.


....... Phil

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On 14/08/2022 6:35 pm, Phil Allison wrote:

Hi,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVfeGD5SnA

Has ( almost ) everything you ever wanted to know.
Excellent pic quality.

..... Phil

There is a piloted version in the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor
Collection at the southern end of Paine Field Everett. A place well
worth a visit.

https://flyingheritage.org/Explore/The-Collection/Germany/Fieseler-Fi-103R-Reichenberg.aspx

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keithr0 wrote:
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There is a piloted version in the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Collection at the southern end of Paine Field Everett. A place well
worth a visit.

https://flyingheritage.org/Explore/The-Collection/Germany/Fieseler-Fi-103R-Reichenberg.aspx

** See dramatised version of the above story::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFD0alzSeRM

See actual film and interview with Hannah Reitsch flying the Me163 Komet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6i3H3E4NI

She makes Chuck Yeager look like a wimp.



....... Phil


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On 16/08/2022 5:30 pm, Phil Allison wrote:

keithr0 wrote:
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There is a piloted version in the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor
Collection at the southern end of Paine Field Everett. A place well
worth a visit.

https://flyingheritage.org/Explore/The-Collection/Germany/Fieseler-Fi-103R-Reichenberg.aspx

** See dramatised version of the above story::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFD0alzSeRM

She was an excellent pilot and had bigger balls than anybody you're
likely to meet. The video had a glaring error, the motor was running
while the aircraft was stationary on the catapult, the whole point of
the catapult was to start the motor.

See actual film and interview with Hannah Reitsch flying the Me163 Komet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6i3H3E4NI

She makes Chuck Yeager look like a wimp.

...... Phil

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keithr0 wrote:
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** See dramatised version of the above story::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFD0alzSeRM

She was an excellent pilot and had bigger balls than anybody you're
likely to meet. The video had a glaring error, the motor was running
while the aircraft was stationary on the catapult, the whole point of
the catapult was to start the motor.

** Shame how this actual film contradicts that fallacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGmTf44glAQ

The steam launch catapult was to get the 2 ton plus missile quickly up to flying speed.

The exact same engine was trialed on car and boats, no launching needed.



...... Phil



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Phil Allison wrote:
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** Shame how this actual film contradicts that fallacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGmTf44glAQ

The steam launch catapult was to get the 2 ton plus missile quickly up to flying speed.

** See this recent vid too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdwbp6R2qM8

Note how the engine plus mount leaps forward once started.
Spark ignition is only needed for a moment.
Internal resonance keeps it self firing after that.



...... Phil


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Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> writes:

It was a comparatively low cost weapon, hard to intercept or
shoot down, while putting no German airmen's lives at risk.

The SCR-584 radar, with an analog computer from Bell Labs, and
proximity fuzes from what is now JHU-APL, was a major threat to
the V1. They were placed on the Dover Cliffs so the shoot-downs
were into the Channel.

OTOH, the V2 rocket was expensive but impossible to intercept.

It cost more lives in manufacturing than it killed in Britain.

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