ACAM gives their V-1 a fresh coat of paint

Yep they did that with the V2’s, except used newspapers and they reported that villages/towns e.t.c. north of London were being hit, so when the Germans read it they reduced the range and the V2’s fell on (hopefully) rural and unpopulated South East England!

That sounds about right to me – I seem to recall that the Germans were being fed information supposedly from spies that the V-1s were overshooting – when in fact many were undershooting, and they kept shortening the range until some never even crossed the coast.

Wish I’d had my camera the day I spotted the one in the hedge – surely somone here remembers that yard? Way out in rural Kent, had a small steam engine with a very tall chimney in it and, later on, an engine and prop from a B24 too. Towards Tenterden, perhaps?

Adrian

There is a small propeller in the nose connected to an odometer, you know how far from launcher to target set the odometer and launch.

Think a few might have gone plop, in the Thame’s and it’s Esturys!

Stuff spelling today must I lay down, yes I think so!.

Thank’s AG,

How did they vary the range’s of the V-1, if there was only one engine speed, FLAT OUT!.

What put less fuel in???.

Sound interesting that so called found one, With the number’s that were fired at the U.K., I am surprized more don’t appear from the stick’s or lake’s!.

Can anyone comfirm one was found!!

Hi James,

Nothing has changed with the Hudson fuselage. It is still stored in the compound along with the PBY-5A wings. Due to the lack of space inside the museum and so many other projects of higher priority any work on the Hudson is still years away.

Ken.

Hi Kzee,
Welcome to the forum. Looks like you’ve got some great things going on in your place! I mised the museum when I was in the maritimes in 2002, but when we came through again in 2004 I managed to see both FPL’s Avengers in Fredrickton and the ACAM – most enjoyable and a great mix of aircraft.

I wonder if you can update us as to the status of your Hudson fuselage? It wasn’t looking too happy when I saw it. Glad you are progressing well with the Turkeycat.

Best wishes

I would have just cranked the Ramjet, to the MAX and gone for it!….YAAHHHOOO!!, If you live…a great story for the grandkid’s.

No choice, Phil – with a pulsejet (not quite the same thing) you have two speeds. Stopped, and flat out! Apparently if you put some petrol in a test tube, shake hard and ignite you get an identical effect – it goes bangbangbangbangbang until the petrol runs out. Not one I’d try at home…

The Lashenden Air Warfare Museum in Kent has a manned V-1 in it’s collection. It apparently shows evidence of a very heavy landing (could there have been any other sort?) and they suspect it MAY have been the one that nearly did for Hanna Reitsch. It was used in the 1960s film “Operation Crossbow”, for which purpose it was fitted with a calor gas burner in the exhaust that gives a most impressive tail of flame. Shame about the movie, really!

In 1992-3 there was still a chap with a collection of junk somewhere in the weald of Kent, not that far from Headcorn, who had an “as found” crashed V-1 under a hedge. Anyone know more?

Adrian

I’ll pull me book’s down for a sqiz mate!

Nice V-1,
I have alway’s wondered what it would have been like to pilot one, I know the German did do a few flight test’s, with a pilot.

I would have just cranked the Ramjet, to the MAX and gone for it!….YAAHHHOOO!!, If you live…a great story for the grandkid’s.

I thought the first examples all crashed. Wasn´t there an uncontollable roll to the right (or left)? Didn´t Hanna Reitsch (sp!) nearly get killed in one of those?

Yep, that is different,
But I suppose the fire tanker’s have done so much, fantastic work saving live’s, property and wildlife and flora, fauna and so on.

That they now too deserve a historic place, In aviation, in their own right !.

Nice V-1,
I have alway’s wondered what it would have been like to pilot one, I know the German did do a few flight test’s, with a pilot.

I would have just cranked the Ramjet, to the MAX and gone for it!….YAAHHHOOO!!, If you live…a great story for the grandkid’s.

Nice the Avenger being restored as a tanker rather than returned to warbird status.

Roger Smith.

The former Eastern Provincial Airlines PBY-5A comming along slowly, The tail section was completed and mounted on the fuselage earlier this year. It still has many years of work ahead of it.

The other big news is that the museum’s Avenger Wings and tail section was delivered to the museum this past Saturday. The Fuselage should be arriving later in September. A group museum volunteers have been restoring the Avenger over the past nine years at Forest Protection Limited base in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The aircraft is restored to represent FPL’s Tanker 24.

Fantastic museum….great to see the progress on the V1…..how’s the Cat? I shall be your way again soon (hurrah!!!)