launching V-1s from an aircraft carrier

Glen Edwards was involved in a test at Wendover in the summer of 1945,
in which two V-1s were fired from underwing mounts on a B-17. This was
part of the run-up to the invasion of Japan, like the preparations for
the Twin Mustang (with which he was also involved).

So it would seem that stand-off missiles a heavy bomber was the
direction in which the USAAF was looking.

(Northrop was at that time building its own version of the V-1.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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Glen Edwards was involved in a test at Wendover in the summer of 1945,
in which two V-1s were fired from underwing mounts on a B-17. This was
part of the run-up to the invasion of Japan, like the preparations for
the Twin Mustang (with which he was also involved).

So it would seem that stand-off missiles a heavy bomber was the
direction in which the USAAF was looking.


The Luftwaffe launched V-1's from He-111's during the war
and the US was already developing stand off weapons such
as the Bat Bomb

Keith