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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. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |