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4th August 1944: First Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory by ‘tipping’ a V-1 doodlebug
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:53
Publish Date: 2017-08-03 21:05:03
Description: RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he 'tipped' a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet fighter. The V-1 was specifically designed for terror bombing civilians, and had first been used on 13 June 1944. The RAF began to investigate ways to intercept and destroy the Nazis’ new weapon, and soon found that they could be tipped over by positioning an aircraft’s wing to within 6 inches of the V-1’s wing. This manoeuvre used the changing airflow of the interceptor’s wing to force the ...
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