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Post by hairy on Oct 8, 2021 22:31:27 GMT 12
Just to put a cat amongst the pigeons... Was there more than one V-1 in NZ shortly after the war? This blunt nosed V-1 was on display at the RNZAC Pageant at Mangere in March 1949.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 9, 2021 7:40:04 GMT 12
Hmm, and it is also camouflaged rather than silver. Interesting.
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 9, 2021 8:49:53 GMT 12
The V1 had a device in it that pitched it over into a dive at the end of its run to the target.
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Post by markrogers on Oct 9, 2021 10:10:18 GMT 12
If the original camouflage is still underneath the silver and green paint on the Auckland Museum V-1, it might be possible to reveal it by lightly rubbing away the silver paint in some way or other.
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Post by davidd on Oct 9, 2021 10:26:09 GMT 12
Davem2's post dated 7 Oct mentions a V-1 on the move in lower South Island in late 70's or 80's. When did the replica V-1 that featured at the Warbirds over Wanaka shows make its appearance - I think this was the only one in NZ which actually flew under its own power - was it "life-size" or perhaps something like a half-scale model?
Dave D
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Post by curtiss on Oct 9, 2021 12:47:55 GMT 12
I suspect it is all the same V1 - only reason for that is the missing round access panel above the wing trailing edge features in all the photo's.
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Post by nuuumannn on Nov 3, 2021 16:42:13 GMT 12
I suspect it is all the same V1 - only reason for that is the missing round access panel above the wing trailing edge features in all the photo's. Quite possibly, if that is the case, the nose must have been changed at some stage, not just the cap at the tip, but also the entire forward section ahead of the wings because the underside displays damage, whereas as it is in the Auckland Museum there is no damage in that location. The example in Mike's images with the swastika show the nose devoid of the propeller as it is today. There is scorching on the underside of the rear fuselage aft of the wing in hairy's images, and as it is now that location has suffered skin damage, and the Australian War Memorial example also displays scorching in the same location. Looking through photos I have taken of V 1s in different museums, it looks like the type regularly suffered crumple damage under the rear fuselage in that location, the IWM Lambeth example and one in the military museum in Copenhagen, Denmark display the same wear in that location. That section of the V 1 contained the autopilot and fuel regulator and lines that ran into the dorsal supporting the pulse jet matrix. The question is then, if the example in hairy's photos is the same as the Auckland Museum's, what became of the nose section that was removed, or were there indeed two different V 1s?
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Post by nuuumannn on Nov 3, 2021 17:02:23 GMT 12
The V1 had a device in it that pitched it over into a dive at the end of its run to the target. It did indeed. This is a description of the timing sequence I wrote for an article years ago. "To determine when the missile was to begin its terminal dive, it relied on the revolutions of a two-bladed wind vane at its extreme nose sending electrical signals to a mechanical Veeder type counter mounted on the autopilot. Prior to launch the required range was set on the counter and with every 15 revolutions of the vane, a single pulse was sent to the counter. Once in flight, a given number of pulses caused the counter to tick over to the pre-set time from launch for the missile’s terminal dive. Ticking over at 48 times a minute, at 1,100 clicks of the counter, nominally a distance of 38 miles from the launch point, the counter closed a contact that armed the warhead. At 1,000 clicks prior to the terminal dive, at roughly 35 miles from the target, the sequence began that threw the bomb into its diving attitude. Once the counter had reached the pre-set time, an electrical impulse fired two detonators in the tail section of the missile, which blew out a flat steel plate that released a spring-loaded lever to lock each of the elevators in their neutral position. Once the elevators were locked, a hinged spoiler located on the underside of each elevator was deflected open; the disrupted air flow under the elevators caused by the spoilers tilted the missile into its final dive. Simultaneously, a small guillotine blade severed the air lines to the rudder servo to prevent signals from the gyros reacting to the forthcoming dive from reaching the relay and actuating the rudder from its neutral position." Images of the spoilers under the hori stab of the Auckland example, the left-hand one being larger than the right-hand one for some reason. Note also the paint layers revealing previous colours. DSC_8658
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