Five Brothers and a War

V-1 “Buzz Bomb”

The RAF learned that with very skilled pilots, they could position the wingtip of their fighters a few inches below the wing of the V-1, thereby creating a high-pressure zone beneath the V-1’s wing. That high pressure would dramatically lift that wing, and overwhelm the weapon’s guidance system, which was not designed for such aerodynamic anomalies.

Once the wingtip was raised by the RAF fighter, the V-1 lost its guidance control and plummeted back to the Earth—usually

in the English Channel or the North Sea.

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Actual photo of fighter intercept of a V-1.

The sound everyone hated.

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