Meant for England by bmac62
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An extremely rare aircraft.
Fiesler Fi 103R Reichenberg. I have only seen these in books until visiting Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett, Washington last Saturday.
The Nazis built thousands of Feiseler Fi 103 V-1 unmanned flying bombs to terrorize England, but as things looked more and more bleak for the Nazi cause during World War II, the idea of a manned flying bomb bore fruit.
The Fiesler Fi 103R Reichenberg was proposed and test flown by Germany's top woman pilot. It was designed to be carried by an aircraft near its target, the pilot would direct the plane into a dive and bail out. Any pilot doing such a thing would most likely have met his death by being sucked into the engine or taken as a prisoner of war after improbably parachuting safely to the ground.
No German pilot ever flew one of these into combat.
Bill:)
Facts for those interested: Click Here
"On the Beach #1"
Comments (31)
nikolais
great facts and capture, Bill!so much a reminder of the planes of kamikaxe by concept but more advanced/ human life, what...or does it cost anything at all when the cause appointed seems great?