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Old January 23rd 04, 09:46 AM
Andreas Parsch
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robert arndt wrote:


Sorry, the aerofiles site has that photo labeled as a captured V-1 but
since it came from Wright Field testing it had to be a JB-2 Loon.

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/loon.htm

Notice, however, that the Loon is also described as being catapult
launched since the "pulsejet would only operate in forward flight". So
nice of that to be mentioned.



Just to clarify this: I wrote this article, and while I indeed thought
that a pulsejet needs at least some mimimal forward velocity to
operate properly, I've now learned (in the ongoing discussion here on
r.a.m.) that this is not the case. I really regret this error, and
have already rephrased the sentence in question in the original
article on my own site.

Regards
Andreas