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1944
1944 - 0287.PDF
FEBRUARY IOTH, 1944 FLIGHT 145 Germany's "Secret Weapon Crewless Radio-controlled Bomber Now Takes the Place of the Rocket Qun •>•> Drawings by Courtesy of the "Illustrated London News" THAT the new frightfulness which Germany claims to have in store for us is not, as had been "previously rumoured, a large number of rocket guns located near the coast of Northern France, but is a bomber with out crew, guided by radio to its target, was reported by the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph on January 31st. His despatch read as follows: '' There is ample evidence now that the Germans' secret itareapon is actually a crewless radio-controlled aircraft, which, loaded to capacity with explosives, can be accu rately directed to its objective," states a despatch pub lished here, from a correspondent with the Fifth Army in Italy. "The radio-controlled plane flying at high speed would be extraordinarily difficult to stop with either fighter air craft or A.A. shell fire," says the correspondent. "Nevertheless, Allied experts after studying the techni calities of the problem have located its primary weakness. '' The secret weapon needs an exceedingly complex launching mechanism. Many take-oft points have been erected by the Germans along the western coast of Europe, 'THE WINGED BOtofi SHOWS k BRJGHT LIGHT AT THE. TAIL ' THIS ENABLES THE CONTROLLER. IK THE PARENT AIBCRAET TO KEEP. SOT OE AND CONTROL TUt PROJECTILE IN r-UGUT TOWARDS THE IMtA WJM&CD mm. BR.IGUT LIGHT. Of WIN®. gC* 1 AKJOt ~ - " MH>ROXll^my-4AML£S. dfcsMiiMinii- —iniinini'wm si—mm 1 —1 —n •niiirmmiwiiii'iwiw , UhlGUT Oh f CONTROLLING • AIRCRAFT 120O0-40OOPT. i"n»mnwMN) nw Diagrams showing the path taken by the crewless aircraft (or radio-controlled bomb) and the method of visual direction.
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