>From: Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Room-Temperature Superconductor Invented 25 Years Ago
>
>At 03:51 pm 07-02-05 -0800, you wrote:
>> Mark Goldes wrote in part:
>>>
>>> >Incldently, he was a test pilot for Nazi V1 flying bombs. He would
>>ride
>>> them up and then jump off and parachute down.
>>>
>>I do not believe this. I take this mention to be done in jest.
>>In my fascination with rocketry and WWII history, I have never run across
>>this item for the V1 flying bomb being partially piloted. At least there
>>were no 'saddles' being part of the assembly.
>>The V1 carried a 1,000 pound bomb versus 2,000 pounds for the V2. Its
>>propulsion was by a simple, noisy pulse-jet engine. The current
>>re-incarnation of the engine is the Dyna-Jet model airplane engine still in
>>production here (USA).
>>There were no guidance units on the bomb as we know it today.
>>Probably a web search should pop up an image of the missile and the simple
>>manner of its being lauched against England from Penumunde (incorrect
>>spelling) across the Channel.
>>
>>-ak-
>
>
>As someone who as a child was in the firing line of "doodle bugs" I have
>always taken an interest in their development. On British TV a film is
>often shown of some intrepid woman test pilot who did in fact rid these
>things, not side-saddle I hasn't to add, but in a primitive cockpit which
>presumably took the place of the explosive charge. A lot of her predecessors
>were killed but she managed to sort out the problem. I can't remember
>whether she bailed out or not though.
>
>Oh, and they were launched up sloping ramps.
>
>Cheers
>
>Grimer
>
