I own 1/72 scale models of the first rocket powered aicraft used in combat, the Me-163 Komet, and the first jet powered aircraft used in combat, the Me-262 Schwalbe and I really wish I could find a 1/72 V-1, the first operational cruise missile.

V-1 Buzzbomb: A Technical Breakdown of the Vengeance Weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVfeGD5SnA

German V1 Flying rocket instructional video (turn on CC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EEZuXQyA-E

The V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnK1vcJmC3A

Pulse jet engine from a V-1 - modern run-ups

in 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh3PexhT4Ss

In 2021:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlDsup-aLI

Run-up of the "Loon" engine built for the U.S. version of the German V-1 Buzz Bomb. The "Loon" engine is a virtual copy of the original German V-1 "Argus" pulse jet engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCsKs2NhdWg

Loon on static display at the USAF museum:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...omb%29_USAF.jpg

Loon Program report:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0841188.pdf

Assisted terminal homing described in that report:

Marine Guidance Computer (14 flights)

The Marine Guidance Computer is an adaptation of the NAIATC computer and is designed for use inclose-air-support operations. When used inconjunction Stwith the LOON missile, the computer and radar were located in the vicinity of the target. The radar tracked the missile as it approached the target and provided missile position, course, and speed data to the computer. The computer then analyzed the data and transmitted course-change commands that would guide the missile toward the target. It also computed the position for the dump point and transmitted the "dump" command when the missile reached that position.

The Marine Guidance Computer participated in 14 flights. Ten of these were for the purpose of testing the ability of the computer to guide the missile over the target and did not include the sending of the dump command. The dump comman was actually transmitted on two flights. The miss distance. were 360 and 600 yards from the target. On two other flights, faulty operation of equipment prevented the transmission of the dump command, although the computer demonstrates that it was capable of guiding the missile over the target.

Improved Command Guidance System (2 flights)

The system, designated TROUNCE I, was designed to eliminate the normal radio command system by utilizing the tracking radar to transmit control commands to the missile. This was done by coding the radar pulses. The missile equipment is identical to that used for the radio-command system except that the radio receiver was replaced by a decoder that converted the coded radar pulses into command functions. The physical dimensions of the decoder and the radio receiVer were identical.

Before missile flights were conducted, numerous tests were made that utilized piloted aircraft equipped with the missile components of the system. These tests revealed that it was possible to transmit intelligence by radar pulse coding to ranges of 150 miles.

Two missile flights were conducted utilizing the system. On one flight, the missile was launched from the NAMTC short-length launcher and control was shifted successfully from NAMTC to the CUSK, and then to the CARBONERO. Each station maintained positive radar track and successfully transmitted control commands. However, it was necessary to execute the "dump" with the stand-by radio control system. The second flight was also highly successful. The missile was txackvd and controlled throughout the flight and was dumped at a range of 93 mi~les from the controlling station. In each case, the flight was terminated because the missile was approaching the radar horizon. It is believed that control ranges of 150 miles would be realized if the missile were capable of flying at higher altitudes.

A method of increasing the predictability of the terminal trajectory must be devised. The present method of wing blowoff results in an unpredictable trajectory. Further tests of the warhead-blowoff method, with particular emphasis on the prevention of tumbling, should be conducted.

TV-N-2 "Loon" American V-1 clone launched from USS Carbonero during trials
(note the "dump" where the wings are severed - the Germans used a full down elevator & spoiler dive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYucnzuRfc

Navy Loon shown here. Some typical, "you're too stupid to notice" incorrect footage substitutions, like a V-2 magically morphing into a Viking:

The Flying Missile (1950) - Glenn Ford
786,180 views (!) - posted Sep 16, 2020

The Flying Missile is a 1950 Cold War era film starring Glenn Ford and Viveca Lindfors. Made with the cooperation of the US Navy it tells a fictionalized story of the then recently revealed story of the US Navy's first mounting and firing submarine-launched cruise missiles such as the Loon off the deck of submarines. Also, a V-2 launch from an aircraft carrier. V-2 launch at 7:00. Loon prep and shore launch starting at 30:45. Sub Loon launch process starts at 1:01:15, ends with what looks like actual JATO explosion. Successes at 1:26:10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3fPf5oCC_U

On that V-2 launch:

Operation Sandy: V-2 fired from USS Midway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkh8Gz3W70

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The other day I sat next to a woman who has a profound fear of flying. I wanted to comfort her, so I said, "Don't worry, we're not gonna' crash. Statistically, we got a better chance of being bitten by a shark." Then I showed her the scar on my elbow from a shark attack. I said, "I got this when my plane went down off of Florida." - Dennis Regan