Film V1's shooting from a submarine ?
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Film V1's shooting from a submarine ?
In lockdown watched this morning a film "The Flying Missile" B & W with Glenn Ford, usual gung ho etc but it showed genuine footage of American marked V1's fitted with small rocket packs at the rear under the fuselage being launched from US submarines, the launch strop & rocket packs jettisoning after launch after pulse jet working, any ideas as to how - why -what reason ?, looks like they were then lost when engine stopped and fell into sea, now seems an awful waste or are there enough genuine V1's left in museums etc.
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Have a look at this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2
The Postwar testing section describes the naval version that you saw in the movie.
The Postwar testing section describes the naval version that you saw in the movie.
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If we are ever allowed to travel again I would highly recommend a visit to the excellent Steven F Udvar Hazy centre near Dulles Airport. Among all the other famous and fascinating aircraft you can see one of the (maybe the only) surviving US Navy V1s in a fetching all over bright yellow paint scheme. It was a revelation to me when I saw it.
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Most interesting. I had no idea that there was any reverse engineered V1. The museum at Peenemünde has been on my list for a long time. My paternal grandparents were killed by a V2, at their home a few miles south of what is now EGLL.
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Originally Posted by 134brat
If we are ever allowed to travel again I would highly recommend a visit to the excellent Steven F Udvar Hazy centre near Dulles Airport. Among all the other famous and fascinating aircraft you can see one of the (maybe the only) surviving US Navy V1s in a fetching all over bright yellow paint scheme. It was a revelation to me when I saw it.
The concept continued with the Regulus missile and if you ever visit New York go and visit USS Growler which was Regulus equipped submarine.
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The US Navy museum at Pensacola and the Museum of Flight in Seattle are also very good.
The RCAF Museum at Trenton, and Canada's Air & Space Museum in Ottawa are equally good.
Personal view - feel free to differ!
The RCAF Museum at Trenton, and Canada's Air & Space Museum in Ottawa are equally good.
Personal view - feel free to differ!
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Originally Posted by PAXboy
Most interesting. I had no idea that there was any reverse engineered V1. The museum at Peenemünde has been on my list for a long time. My paternal grandparents were killed by a V2, at their home a few miles south of what is now EGLL.
The French also had their own version of a V 1, the ARSAero CT.10, which originally didn't look like a V 1 and was a recoverable target aircraft, but was definitely copied technology:
ARSAERO CT 10 - Wikipedia
This one, at the Musee de l'Air is in fact a CT.10, but you wouldn't know it.
I went to the museum at Peenemunde many years ago. It's great, but I see from pics on the net its grown a bit since I was there.
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Originally Posted by Nuuumannn
This one, at the Musee de l'Air is in fact a CT.10, but you wouldn't know it.
It certainly does look like a genuine V-1?
Looking at the link you provided - and it could well be wrong - but it seems to suggest the only surviving CT.10 is at the Overlord Museum trying to mimic a V-1....?
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