In reading aviation history I believe it was said that the first Doodle Bugs were having flight problems so they made one that a pilot could sit in one to evaluate its performance and why it was acting as it was. I think a wind tunnel could have also figured out what was going on. IMHO
I thought the V1 you could hear it coming so you could take cover, but it was the V2 that was uber deadly, because it was silent.
looks like you “bail out” right in front of the jet
intake...umm, thanks but no..
It was not a suicide plane, the Japanse Ohka version was. However Hitler did oppose suicide like this and did forbid it so the Luftwaffe had a plan: pilot would steer the plane and then jump out before impact. But this was unworkable so the nazi’s never used them as suicide flying bomb.
They had all sorts of crazy stuff! Read Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow. Tons of facts laced into his fictional narrative.
Fake News. Germany launched about 15,000 V1 and V2s and the total loss of life was less than 7,500 - meaning you had to launch two V weapons to kill one Brit. Terrible waste of resources.
The Nazis had lots of interesting stuff.
They determined that trading a Focke Wulf 190 for a bomber and its crew was acceptable and organized ‘ramming squadrons.’ The rammers’ aircraft were heavily armored; they were supposed ram tails and wings, bringing down the bomber and having a chance of the Focke Wulf surviving. If the fighter was disabled, the pilot was supposed to bail out.
But, for some reason, this practice never became very popular.