hi all ive recently recovered from a forest in kent an argus pulse jet from a v1 crash site that looks like its not been touched since 1944, the jet unit is squashed flat through impact but is complete, the front section unfortunately come apart from the rear whilst excavating but is still a very impressive piece once laid out together, we also found most of one of the compressed air tanks, along with most of the forward mounting fork for the pulse jet, and what looks like a twisted cable cutter from one of the wings, plus a few more interesting pieces, all of it will need preserving as you can imagine 70+ years in the ground hasnt done it to many favours, but the pulse jet is in fairly solid condition complete with a cannon shell hole !!! we are going to give it a mild shot/bead blast and a good coat of rust treatment paint to save it from further deterioration pics to follow...
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v1 argus pulse jet recovered from a forest
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hi hangarman, i stumbled across whilst looking for something else, but always new there was one in there somewhere from local rumours, unfortunately i dont know anything about the demise, but found an area in the woods not far from the v1 crash site where i found approx 10 spent british 20mm shell casings spread over an area all with the same breech/dent marks on them dated 1944 so would imagine possibly this had something to do with the v1,s demise....
Imagine if you could link up that info and identify the pilot/aircraft, pilot/squadron records might be one way to tie it all in.
yes spotter it will make a nice museum piece once cleaned and treated, and somehow mount the 2 pieces together as they were found in the ground, the front section is fairly crumpled due to impact but still has part of the sparkplug/igniter present, i will post some pics once it is cleaned and treated...
there was an airfield on romney marsh that flew tempests during this time as a defence against the v1,s, the airfield has long since returned to farmland but it would be nice to think that it was one of these that brought it down...
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Newchurch probably. Mainly Typhoons who did a lot of the anti V1 work. John
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http://www.hawkertempest.se/Newchurch.htm interesting reading...