Re: [NTLK] up in the sky

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 18:07:42 EDT


On Saturday 22 June 2002 17:21, tfbiii_at_nbscomputers.net wrote:
> I thought the V1 was a conventional jet or Rocket powered? I think
> there's a WWW page somewhere too of a group that's working on rebuilding
> 1 or 2 of them...
>
You might be thinking of the V2, the world's first ballistic missile. The
V1 was more like a cruise missile, powered by a pulse-jet, which is little
more than a tube with a couple of valves and an ignition mechanism in it.

-- 
Jazz.

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