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On Apr 3, 11:12 am, Mike Lindsay wrote:
There is a belief around that RAF pilots could sometimes upset the V-1's
by using the Spitfire's wing-tip vortices to tip them up. Looks like a
tall story to me.
--
Mike Lindsay

"German V-1 cruise missles were first launched against southeast
England in June 1944.
Some 9,200 were eventually fired at Great Britian, of which about
2,400 made it to their
target (usually London). Most of the V-1s that didn't make it were
shot down by flak or
fighters. ...
The missle had to be launched directly at the target, as the V-1 flew
in a straight line, at a
constant speed (about 300 to 400 miles an hour) and altitude (3000 to
4000 feet). It used a
simple pulse jet enginie and plunged to the ground after it had gone a
programmed distance."
-Dunnigan, James E. and Nofi, Albert A. Dirty Little Secrets if World
War II: Military Information
No One Told You About the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History, pp.
210-211

From Wikipedia:
Specifications (Spitfire Mk Vb)
Data from The Great Book of Fighters[47] and Jane's Fighting Aircraft
of World War II[48]
Performance
Maximum speed: 378 mph, (330 knots605 km/h) [Looks like a determined
Spitfire pilot could catch a V-1]
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