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The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1" [a]) was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation was Fieseler Fi 103 [3] and its suggestive name was Höllenhund . It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug [4] [b] and Maikäfer . [c]
Since the engine was rather simple, low-grade gasoline could be used and a good amount of thrust — 2.7 kN (660 lb f) — was produced, but it was inefficient, limiting the range of the V-1 to 240–400 km (150–250 mi) The resonant frequency of this combustion process was around 45 Hz, giving the V-1 its nicknames "buzz bomb" or "doodlebug ...
The robot was sub-contracted by centers like Bruns Werke and Neidersachswerfen's Mittelwerk. The unpiloted aircraft was assembled at the KdF-Stadt (now Wolfsburg) [a] Volkswagenwerke ("Volkswagen works", described as "the largest pressed-steel works in Germany" [1]) at Fallersleben, [2] and at the Mittelwerk, underground factory in central Germany.
The engine's characteristic droning noise earned it the nicknames "buzz bomb" or "doodlebug". The V-1 was a German cruise missile used in World War II, most famously in the bombing of London in 1944. Pulsejet engines, being cheap and easy to construct, were the obvious choice for the V-1's designers, given the Germans' materials shortages and ...
The V-1, often called a flying bomb, contained a gyroscope guidance system and was propelled by a simple pulsejet engine, the sound of which gave it the nickname of "buzz bomb" or "doodlebug". Accuracy was sufficient only for use against very large targets (the general area of a city), while the range of 250 km (160 mi) was significantly lower ...
A V1 'doodlebug' hit on the evening of 18 June 1944 destroyed Brockley Road School and killed five members of the Crofton Park Home Guard. The men are commemorated by a plaque in St Hilda's Church. [14]
The pulsejet's forward support pylon's differing shape on the original V-1 ordnance A JB-2 being inspected by USAAF personnel at Wendover AAF, 1944. JB-2 being air launched for flight test by a Boeing B-17 during testing of the weapon at Eglin Field, 1944 In flight after air launch, 1944 Ground preparation prior to air launch, 1944 A JB-2 being prepared for a test launch at Holloman Air Force ...
In 1944 he received a Bar to his George Medal for defusing the first V1 flying bomb or "doodlebug" to land intact. The nature of his war work remained unknown to friends until a Channel 4 television series on defusing was shown in 2001.