To: Mich Patriot
Yep. They gyroscopic guidance of the V1 couldn't handle being tipped like that. The Gloster Meteor was the first operational allied jet, and while it wasn't used in combat like the German Me262, it became the preferred medicine for anti-V1 work...the two became so associated with one another that some model kits were made including both...
18 posted on
04/06/2011 6:07:32 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
Wow, thanks for that Joe.
19 posted on
04/06/2011 6:13:12 AM PDT by
Mich Patriot
(Today, if you build a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. RReagan)
To: Joe 6-pack
29 posted on
04/06/2011 6:32:24 AM PDT by
Cuttnhorse
(Obama; a skid mark on the undershorts of American history.)
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