MAM Fieseler V1 Flying Bomb

The Military Aviation Museum Fieseler V1 Flying Bomb. Second successful start.

[Brigantius]

My father was a survivor of a V1 strike in London in 1944, thanks to the fact that he was first to cram himself down into a shop doorway before others in the street piled on top of him and shielded him. Having pushed himself out he found everyone else in the immediate vicinity was dead, yet he didn't have a scratch on him. Also an approaching bus was destroyed. As he had been in a bus queue at the time he would never enter a queue of any kind again. It affected him for the rest of his life, yet despite it he made a successful business career after the war and it didn't show to other people. He said that the V1 was potentially more destructive than the V2 because the V1 exploded at ground level with a wide blast radius, while the V2 tended to bury itself into the ground, lessening the radius of the blast, but at least with a V1 you did have a few seconds to look for some cover when you heard the buzz sound cut out.

[orangejoe]

As anybody who survived the Blitz will tell you, 1:53 is the moment when you should dive for cover. V1s had an unintentional defect where the pulsejet died from fuel starvation after the rocket went into the final dive phase of it's attack run. It was supposed to keep burning until impact, but that defect gave people something like 10-12 seconds of warning before the bomb hit. If the bomb slowly got louder and louder and then suddenly went dead silent overhead... you were probably about to have a bad night.

[flyingcatsofthesalishsea.]

As a kid my father watched the battle of Britian from the rolling green pastures of Kent. One day he whitnessed an smaller, odd flying aircraft witch emitted a very unique sound. He went to the local garage and drew the strange aircraft on the chalk board in the shop, it was the Fiesler V-1 "Buzzbomb" but they all didn't know what it was back then.

[noizyneighbour]

My mum grew up in Green Street in Enfield and recalls being woken by my grandma when the air raid siren went off. Mum got up - her sister was not so keen to do so. Grandma continued to try and get her up and moving but as she was doing so the V1 went past the bedroom window close enough to see the flames from the engine and eventually landed at the end of the road.
Grandma apparently just said "you might as well go back to sleep"
😳
Edit: just spoken to her and she confirmed it was June 1944 - the V1 landed on and partially demolished Chesterfield Road school about a mile away.

[bartvandergracht]

I can’t believe the things you find on YouTube. Wish I could show it to my grandfather RIP.

[m_clips]

It looks like a giant spliff on the thumbnail

[mat]

At least you heard the V1 incoming, the V2 however...

[davidca]

It was terrifying for the British people to hear at the time but its the coolest sounding pulsejet to me. People who havent been around them dont realize how strong the shockwaves are from these things its wild.

[stewartw.]

I had one of these years ago in my workshop in northern England. It ran on paraffin and stood vertically rather than horizontally and was very good at heating the place up! Made about the same sound too.

[HalJikaKick]

My father lived in London as a kid. He always tried to describe the sound of the Doodle Bug to me. He said it sounded like an old out of tune motorcycle

[yattaran]

Fantastic !.I never thought I could hear real sound of Buzz Bomb !. It really Buzzing !

[whitelion]

Cool engine sound for such a terrifying thing. Thanks for showing us

[bobconnor]

After the war, miniature versions of this pulse jet engine were made for control-line model airplane racing and were quite popular for a while.

[benlaskowski]

At full power in flight a V-1 could be heard ten miles (16km) away and the tongue of fire could be seen a long way off. It made night interception of it easier.

[MGSSAB]

Just imagine being a civilian in England and Europe in the 40s and hearing the sound of the pulse jet engine of the V1 flying over your city or little town. Pause the video, close your eyes, unpause the video, listen and picture yourself in the 40s, in your room reading a book or outside playing and hearing this noise in the distance or overhead as your stomach drops knowing exactly what this sound your hearing is and the destruction it can bring.

[sapphireGTS]

That is BAD ASS. I wouldn't have thought any were left to rebuild. Great post.

[Entity_BlackRed]

Imagine a RC Pulse Jet with that engine?! The mid sized ones can already go 250+mph, imagine about this one?! Would go something like 400+mph for sure!!!!

[oceanhome]

At night you could see the entire engine glow a dull red color before it crashed to earth

[kingpiccolonzl]

My Dad would tell us stories when they were kids growing up in Bournemouth watching London glow from the Buzz bombs Aka "doodle bugs" at night.... He migrated to NZ straight after the War & had us.... The rest is history. 😊

[quizels]

in the thumnail it looks like a giant joint😂