V-1 Replica

This was upgraded to a Upgraded to Fi 103R Reichenberg for 2019

The big question is: did they ask for a volunteer from the audience to fly in it?

They captured it earlier!

Actually, the half-track (see 2017) is Weta’s, which (along with TVAL) didn’t take part in the 2019 show.

One might ask why a German jet is being towed by a Dodge!

This was upgraded to a Upgraded to Fi 103R Reichenberg for 2019

https://www.flickr.com/photos/errolgc/albums/72157711502140973/with/489…

Poised by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

Positioning by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

V-1 Launch! by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

And Level by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

My footage of both V1 flights here on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/WONZShow/videos/1709279859112451/

And
https://www.facebook.com/WONZShow/videos/1709338172439953/

Thanks Errol, that’s what was burned into my memory.

I love the second photo – from my viewpoint the XIV looked a lot closer! It was a fantastic thing to see.

My V-1 Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/errolgc/albums/72157649507712273

V-1 mobile launch by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

Spitfire tips V-1! by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

Loading V-1 on dolly by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

For some reason attendence is always higher on the Saturday. There are more explosions on Sunday!

Panjandrum starts by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

Panjandrum almost there… by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

Panjandrum BOOM! by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

The Panjandrum provided a fantastic show on Sunday and appeared to work as designed, laying a major smokescreen and exploding most impressively against a “German” emplacement to much applause from the crowd!

This?

That’s the blighter…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCsKs2NhdWg

The ‘Fire wheel’ is meant to be the Royal Navy’s Great Panjandrum which oddly has links to aviation.

Tthe Fieseler Fi 103 V-1 mockup at Classic Fighters this year. An amazing beast.

The rig being positioned for the launch process

All set to go, with the accompanying ground troops looking serious

We have lift-off

The LED effects in the tailpipe certainly add to the realism

Coming back for a downwind pass . .

. . . while the chase plane, Griffon-engined Spitfire ZK-XIV, takes a higher line

Meanwhile on the ground the opposing force’s ‘fire-wheel’ adds to the drama.

It makes for an amazing display! On the Saturday at this last Omaka show the Spitfire XIV “intercepted” the V-1 very convincingly! A fleeting moment that was a highlight of the show for me. No tipping, though.

Yet…

WOW ! that looks frightning. Thanks to all, I never thought I would see one of these fly at any time of day!

Will it be at????

Here’s the 2017 Omaka night launch as a teaser to better photos and details later.

Inventive launch system by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

Up the ramp! by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

V-1 Away by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

V-1 into the night by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

This?

Some guy in SoCal has a full size replica engine. They ran it on a trailer at Chino Airshow a few years back. That woke everyone up, they ran it right along the fence line about 10ft from the spectators.

Me too. I was absolutely dumbstruck by the sight of a close-to-full-size V-1 flitting about the crowdline last time!

I’m looking forward to the improved version mentioned at the end of this article.

A working pulse jet is not for the faint-hearted (nor for any one with any sense for that matter). Extremely noisely and effectively on/off only. It would have been ok for a one-way mission more or less in a straight line, but if you tried to do less than all out speed manoeuvring in a fairly confined area, you would probably get out of control and crash into the spectators or something equally inconvenient.

Quite, the objective is an entertaining airshow act (preferably usable while fighters are ‘attacking’ the field), not full realism. And then do it again tomorrow (it was a bit surreal watching it land).

Substituting ducted fan or even turbojet propulsion seems the only feasible way. I wonder if the structure of this reduced scale replica is relatively lightweight because if it isn’t the device would fly and manoeuvre like a brick.

Thrust to weight of 1:3, wings stressed to 12G. The first 20 seconds of the initial video gives a sense of the structure.
Photos of Sunday’s launch:
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/post/225178/thread

Yes looked lightishweight structure to me – brilliant air show act : )