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Hitler's last gasp! Kamikaze Doodlebug with room for a PILOT that was the Nazis' [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| June 22, 2017
| NIck Enoch
Posted on 06/22/2017 6:32:10 AM PDT by C19fan
An incredibly rare Kamikaze version of Adolf Hitler's deadly V1 terror weapon is about to go on display at a British museum 47 years after it was saved from the scrapheap - and restored in Germany. The piloted Doodlebug was effectively a suicide bomb packed with one ton of explosives in its nose. Towards the end of the Second World War, some 5,000 V1 rockets, the world's first cruise missile, were launched by the Germans to bomb London, causing massive loss of life.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: kamikaze; missiles; v1; wwii
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I did not know the Nazis had suicide Buzz Bombs.
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posted on
06/22/2017 6:32:10 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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
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posted on
06/22/2017 6:34:34 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
06/22/2017 6:36:15 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
06/22/2017 6:37:19 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: Steely Tom
Yes, she was a test pilot although there were others as well.
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posted on
06/22/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
To: SkyDancer; Steely Tom
The piloted V1s were featured in the beginning of the movie, Operation Crossbow.
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posted on
06/22/2017 6:58:44 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
( Les deplorables sont victorieux!)
To: C19fan
looks like you “bail out” right in front of the jet
intake...umm, thanks but no..
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:02:38 AM PDT
by
tm61
(Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:09:07 AM PDT
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: SkyDancer
The Nazis would probably have better used the resources to build more fighters.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:10:09 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: tm61
The V1 used a so-called “pulse jet” where the intake was much like a spring-loaded “louver” resulting in a “pulsed” thrust and hence it sound.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:13:08 AM PDT
by
jamaksin
To: Steely Tom
That would be Hanna Reitsch.
I read one account where in testing they kept crashing the piloted V1 and the pilot would die. Reitsch kept yelling at them to be allowed to try. I think they let her try hoping she would crash, but she flew and landed it.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:17:33 AM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: hoosierham
The Germans lost the war because the Germans were Germans and Hitler was Hitler. Any alternate scenarios that ignore these basic truths are not valid.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:22:08 AM PDT
by
henkster
(Orwell, Rand and Huxley would not be proud of our society, but they'd have no trouble recognizing it)
To: \/\/ayne
Here in Virginia Beach, the Pungo Air Museum has a V1 on display. It is a very impressive and formidable weapon. Don’t know how rare they are, but I never expected to see one.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:25:17 AM PDT
by
Don@VB
(Power Corrupts)
To: ichabod1
It wasn’t that the V2 was silent, it was supersonic, so it arrived on target before the sound shockwave.
To: Don@VB
Here in Virginia Beach, the Pungo Air Museum has a V1 on display.
Thanks for the info. I’m driving down to the outer banks this summer and if I have a chance I’ll stop at that museum. I’ve already seen the Wright Brothers museum in NC, and it is fantastic.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:41:19 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(FAIL = FAIL Always Involves Liberalism)
To: C19fan
They had all sorts of crazy stuff! Read Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow. Tons of facts laced into his fictional narrative.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:42:01 AM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Towards the end of the Second World War, some 5,000 V1 rockets, the world's first cruise missile, were launched by the Germans to bomb London, causing massive loss of life. 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.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:45:25 AM PDT
by
Henchster
(Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
To: Henchster
I think you are right. They were terror weapons that were by definition terrifying, but they had absolutely zero impact on the course of the war.
The only concrete result of the V1/V2 rocket program was to give an opportunity for skills-development to a great rocket scientist who ended up in the hands of the US and who was a large factor in us putting Americans on the moon.
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posted on
06/22/2017 7:49:31 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(FAIL = FAIL Always Involves Liberalism)
To: hoosierham
They had plenty of fighters and posted some of their highest production numbers in the last 8 or so months of the war, they didn’t have pilots and fuel.
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posted on
06/22/2017 8:10:49 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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