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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: Missles
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.044322.6890@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 04:43:22 GMT
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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

In article <1991Feb4.071827.23373@cbnews.att.com>, msjohnso@ensub.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Johnson) writes:
> airplane-like altitude and speed, the V-1 was very vulnerable to coastal
> antiaircraft fire and fast fighter interception. Some V-1's were downed by
> Tempest pilots without a shot--they placed their wing above one wing of the
> V-1, breaking its lift and causing it to roll over...the autopilot couldn't
> recover from more than about a 15-20 degree roll and the bomb would spin in
> to open country (ref: _The Big Show_, by Pierre Clostermann, now Air Minister
> of France, then a Free French pilot with the RAF).

The pilot usually (if using the tipping method) would put his wing *under*
the V-1's wing, then tipping it away and tumbling the gyros.

Spoiling the lift on the V-1's wing would cause it to roll *toward* you...
surely a CLM*.

This from a friend who flew RAF Spitfires and Typhoons, 485 (NZ) Squadron.
He never went after a V-1, but he knew "Tiffy" pilots who did.  (Shooting
one down wasn't a really good idea: if close enough to reliably hit the
thing, you were likely to be too close when it went *bang*!)





	* CLM = Career-Limiting Maneuver

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