Fi 103R Flying Heritage Collection PAE 5-21-16

In article , Charles Lindbergh
says...

On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 03:30:41 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
wrote:

Is this a mock-up or an original? If original, it must be extremely rare!

Looks like an V-1 made big enough to hold a pilot on a one-way mission...


http://www.flyingheritage.com/Templa...x?contentId=33

"Place in history: Late in the war, several piloted V-1s were built. The plan
was that a pilot would guide the missile into position close to its target and
bail out at the last moment. It was essentially a suicide mission, as it would
have been very difficult to open the canopy against the wind resistance and in
the unlikely event that the pilot was able to climb out he would have
undoubtedly have been sucked into the intake of the engine.

"This manned missile killed several pilots during landing in flight tests. All
of the Reichenbergs were air-launched from planes, unlike the unmanned V-1s that
were mostly fired from ground-based catapult ramps. The war ended before Germany
could use the Reichenberg in combat.





go Warriors!