A Spitfire Uses It Wing To 'Tip' A V-1
A Spitfire Uses It Wing To 'Tip' A V-1
A nifty air maneuver.
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One Spit did that at just the wrong moment -- the bloody thing fell too close to the Mess Hall on our base and one of the cooks got a broken shoulder out of it.
My recollection is that the fighter mainly associated with this tip-em-over manoeuvre was not the Spitfire but the later and faster Hawker Tempest (a superb aircraft, by the way, which was only produced in large number towards the end of the war, so never acquired the mythical status of the “Spit”). See www.hawkertempest.se