Hi
Good video showing the American copy of the German V1 flying bomb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLTMziYQow
and also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HLZq1oHMYg
The JB-2 was a U.S.-made copy of the famous German V-1 surface-to-surface, pilotless flying bomb first used against England in June 1944.
The Republic Aviation Corp. built the airframe for the JB-2 from drawings prepared at Wright Field,
using dimensions taken from the remains of several V-1s brought from Germany.
The Ford Motor Co. built the engine, which was a copy of the V-1's 900-lb. thrust Argus-Schmidt pulse-jet.
Republic and Ford built 1,000 JB-2s for the Army and Navy.
Production delivery began in January 1945, but the U.S. Army Air Forces cancelled further production when World War II ended.
The first JB-2 test flight in took place at Eglin Field, Fla., in October 1944.
Just before the end of the war, an aircraft carrier en route to the Pacific took on a load of JB-2s for possible use in the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Although never used in combat, the JB-2 provided valuable data for the design and construction of more advanced weapons.
The german model , very good video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=QY308O42Ur4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQccOvNG_ZY&feature=relmfu
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Good video showing the American copy of the German V1 flying bomb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLTMziYQow
and also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HLZq1oHMYg
The JB-2 was a U.S.-made copy of the famous German V-1 surface-to-surface, pilotless flying bomb first used against England in June 1944.
The Republic Aviation Corp. built the airframe for the JB-2 from drawings prepared at Wright Field,
using dimensions taken from the remains of several V-1s brought from Germany.
The Ford Motor Co. built the engine, which was a copy of the V-1's 900-lb. thrust Argus-Schmidt pulse-jet.
Republic and Ford built 1,000 JB-2s for the Army and Navy.
Production delivery began in January 1945, but the U.S. Army Air Forces cancelled further production when World War II ended.
The first JB-2 test flight in took place at Eglin Field, Fla., in October 1944.
Just before the end of the war, an aircraft carrier en route to the Pacific took on a load of JB-2s for possible use in the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Although never used in combat, the JB-2 provided valuable data for the design and construction of more advanced weapons.
The german model , very good video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=QY308O42Ur4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQccOvNG_ZY&feature=relmfu
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