LAST EDITED ON Feb-04-15 AT 00:18 AM (EST)
 
>>(Also, ye gods, a pulse jetpack? That would be horrible.)
>
>Only marginally more so than the Fi103 itself, with the intake and its
>clattering shutters (and all the noise and vibration!) directly above
>and behind the pilot's head. I still find it hard to believe that
>flying assembly of kluges actually got to the point of flight
>training for operational use, before the project was cancelled.

... Well, in fairness(?!), the Fi 103 was a suicide weapon. It didn't just have the engine from a V-1, it was a V-1, just with what we might now call a wetware guidance system. As such, it didn't really matter if the pilot was miserable and went deaf.

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