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V1 and trip wire?

Discussion in 'Information Requests' started by Kai-Petri, Dec 14, 2020.

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    Read a long time ago that the Germans learnt about the allied V1 wing tipping so they built some kinda trip wire to stop this. Anybody else read about this? Thanx for any info.
     
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    Haven't heard of this at all...
     
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    As the tipping normally involved no physical contact between the aircraft but occurred because of the air pressure between the wings difficult to think how it would work. There are examples of actual metal to metal contact but this was rare and unintentional.
     
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    Interesting. I always thought there was some even slight physical contact. I guess you had to be quite a master of the tipping instead of shooting the v1 down?
     
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    If you have two aircraft travelling at speeds of 400 mph plus it's difficult to achieve wing to wing contact as a cushion of compressed air develops between the two. However the effect is just as good as metal to metal contact and the V1 mechanism was unable to cope
     
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    Night time attacks,too? Thank you.
     

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