"Gordon McLaughlin" wrote in message
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To judge from the types of aircraft developed for the Graf Zeppelin, the
catapults should have been able to launch a V1 unless it weighed much more
than, say, a Ju87.

That's what I figure, as long as there's no compelling other reason (like
setting up the compass, for instance).

My reason for asking was that I'm programming an old PC wargame to simulate
a Doolittle raid on New York in about 1943-4 by a pair of German CVs. The
assumptions are that the Commonwealth and USSR have capitulated in
succession, the IJN is in need of a diversion, and the two German CVs, which
can't fight a US CV, are instead launching the most irritating raid possible
that's sure to force the USN to pull carriers out of the Pacific.

Assuming they can do 25 to 30 knots for 10 hours or so and the V-1s can fly
about 250 miles, they could presumably approach during daylight, launch at
dusk, and retreat, thus ensuring that they're out of range of effective
land-based air throughout. All they have to worry about is submarines, so I
figure one carries a normal air group and the other the V-1s. Ideally, if a
V-1 could be fired without reconfiguring the whole flight deck, they both
would. I'd imagine you could flat-pack a V-1 quite small.

What does the French quotation at the end of your message mean? Is it in
the Languedoc dialect? Where is it from?

You have to read it aloud.

Et qui rit des cures d'Oc?

hickory, dickory, dock

De Meuse raines, houp! de cloques.

the mouse ran up the clock

De quelles loques ce turqe coin.

the clock struck one

Et ne d'anes ni rennes,

and down he ran

Ecuries des cures d'Oc.

hickory dickory dock.