Wing tipping the V-1 Buzzbomb

This lesson teaches you about the V-1 Buzzbomb and different techniques to destroy them, including how to tip them over with only your wings!

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[RequiemsACTL]

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you're enjoying time with your families and friends. With my new airline and apartment situation in a less hectic place I've been able to restart work on some things, including this video about dealing with V-1s in Il-2. Enjoy!

[jimmydesouza]

When you wing nudged it you inadvertently sent it right into a road, which thus made it a more accurate and destructive strike than it likely would have otherwise been :D.

[TheHarvHR]

Interestingly the V1 engine doesn't cut out in order to initiate the dive, the dive is done on a timer that forces the elevator to move, but this often lead to fuel starvation from the ramjet. It was actually intended to be a powered dive but didn't work like that in practice.

[codyking]

I remember hearing a recording supposedly taken during the BoB of a V-1 engine ominously cutting off as it flew overhead, and the recording ends as the person recording is scrambling for cover. Pretty chilling.

[gvii]

It seems modelled pretty well. It is pretty wild how simple that thing is, other than the gyro control which was pretty advanced for it's time. There's a video where some guys managed to get their hands on one of the gyros from a V-2, as well as the control systems, Which I assume isn't too different from the one in the V-1. They basically made a high voltage unit out of eBay bits to get the gyro going since one of the tubes in the vibrator(What they used to call step-up voltage converters) was cracked. It was wild hearing that thing spin up. Kinda scary too, that 80 year old thing screaming away. I don't remember what the RPM was it ran at, but it was incredibly high. Also insanely loud, lol. Anyway, good stuff as always. Hope you had a great Christmas!

[-Zevin-]

It's great to see you back uploading new content for IL2. Merry Christmas!

[Coinkidoink]

Thank you so much for your series with this game, i would 100% have ditched it after a couple of hours without them. Instead i have 600+ hours lol.

[mitchconner]

Awesome!

Now I need to try this with a C-47A.

[Stray]

Nice video. In the real ones there was an explosive that severed the control linkage of the v1's elevator, causing it to dive straight down once it got over it's target area IIRC.

[fredsalfa]

That was amazing seeing that visualised

[Snowy]

Great to see another video from you Requiem. Thank you.

[jcommtube]

Hey Requiem !!! Was missing your videos !
Wish you the Best for the New Year 2023 !!!

[SteveGad]

Catching the damn things is nigh on impossible, unless you drop down just right. As soon as you get level behind one you've pretty much had it. Well, me I mean. 🙂
Thanks again buddy.

[old_guard]

As usual nowhere near enough people who need to see these are actually watching. The few, the faithful appreciate the level of effort required.
Tiny little buggers. Without target tags I assume it would take some pretty competent GCI to even find them.

[ScoBos]

Always love it when video games recreate reality!

[TheRaptorXX]

A late Christmas present from 'Chalky' Req!! Hope y'had a goodun' mate? 👍

[-MAILMAN]

Nice to see you back making the videos. A nice Christmas present to your followers.
I was expecting to see wing damage when you tipped it.
Do you plan to make a learn to fly video of the mosquito? I find it a real bear to operate on the ground.
Happy Holidays.

[th_FS]

Hey Requiem!
I know this is probably off-topic for this video, but will you make videos on Il-2 Korea once it releases? Love your videos!

[flightknight]

Thats wild! Had no idea this was even possible! Do you know if this is unique to the V1 or can this be done with all aircraft?

[jonqueller]

Are there single player missions for intercepting V1s yet?