V2 tipping
Scene: Stuck on a boat in the furious 50's watching "the Secret War". As the chairs slid from side to side, the scene and interview of WWII fighters "tipping" German V2 rockets was digested and debated.
Between the fliers amongst us was disagreement as to how they did it and how it worked. Did they:
1. Go under the V2 wing with their own wingtip and contact the wing of the ricket and using ailerons physically push it upwards
2. Place their wingtip slightly behind the trailing edge of the V2 wing to reduce the drag (a la ground effect) making the V2 yaw then roll away
3. Hold thier wing tip underneath (though one would have thought the resultant veturi would have sucked the V2 wing downwards, thereby turning it towards the "tipper" creating a highly awkward, but certainly memorable moment.
4. Some other theory?
CS