I vividly remember seeing a V-1 as it flew by me late one afternoon about one mile away [not directly overhead]. No flames were coming out of the rear of the motor. I was about 50 miles east of London on the south side of the Thames estuary. I was about 9 or 10 years old. I was more curious than frightened. As I watched the engine stopped and the bomb started to dose-dive towards the ground. I jumped into the roadside ditch [fortunately it was dry]. I was too far away to feel any shock wave or ground tremor.
My dad en mom were almost hit by a V1. It failed running and the sound stopped. 150m from their houses ( my father and mother lived by their parent, 300m between the both houses) it hit a house and wiped out a complete family of 9 people. The V1 and V2 made a lot of innocent victim during the war. But that is always in a war, and always be. 😔 nos.nl/75jaarbevrijding/bericht/2328610-heel-tragisch-v1-treft-velp And the story of my mam and dad that night bootsmanmeurs.nl/familie/het-gezin-in-de-oorlog/de-v1-in-de-oranjestraat/
My grandmother survived being bombed as a baby in london during the war, when she came to Canada she told stories of my great grandmother sifting through rubble to find her. She was bathing her, heard the buzz and it leveled the flat, ejecting my great grandmother onto the street, the bathtub saved my grandmother from the rubble.
@@joseveintegenario-nisu1928 I don't think I want to answer your vision who began the war and who is responsible to all the deads. This is your vision and I think that you miss the reason why England did "start" the war. Every war has only losers. The thing is that the human never learn from the pass. O... and by the way. My grandfather was POW at Fukuoka 2b. Do your search work again and begin from 1900. And take anti racisme with it.
I remember an old uncle saying that sound brought mixed emotions. Hearing it meant it had passed you so you were happy to be safe but also knew someone else wasn't so it was terrifying.
WW2 had a lot of different sounds that could cause fear or dread. Some were intentional. The Stuka siren, for one. This pulsejet engine. Stalin's Organ, the Katyusha rockets. Nebelwerfer rockets... all had distinct sounds that if you heard them you knew you were in serious trouble.
My Dad was Royal Navy and was posted to London during the V1 onslaught. They were charged with the task of clean up after a strike. A messy business, he said. While on a train, a V1 hit a gas storage tank about half a mile away. He said it was the biggest bang he'd ever heard. That was from a man who served on battleships firing 16 inch guns in action. He was a great fella.
They say you can look at London from google earth and spot the major impacts of V weapons to this day because of the gaps in row houses and new construction amid old etc.
Yeah, oil and gas storage tank explosions are loud. Had one blow up about two miles from our house when I was a kid and it sounded like very loud thunder even at that distance.
What's cool about pulse jets is the sound frequency. Going from idle to full power only changes the amplitude of the sound unlike rotary engines that whine at a higher pitch.
That's because the flame propagation speed for the fuel mixture remains the same. Adding additional fuel may increase thrust, but you have to keep the mixture between UEL and LEL (Upper Explosion Limit and Lower Explosion Limit). It's kind of a cheesy design, but it doesn't create a centrifugal force like a spinning turbine that has to be countered. Plus, it's a one way trip so who cares about eventual metal fatigue.
This version of the jet was decently efficient at speed. There is a one way mesh gate on the front that allows it to suck air from the front but will close and force the exhaust out the rear. Very simple, very effective
was the first jet type in service, the Brits invented the jet turbine, Rolls Royce iirc or was is jag? one of those, it never seen service because it was deemed far too inefficient and insufficient to power even itself, but Germany proven the jet age needed to come in, and fast, resulting in an arms race to bring about new fighters, bombers and aircraft. first fighter jets may be German. but the first actual working jet fighters where British. even we toyed with pulse jets.
Colin Furze built one of these, mounted it inside a 30 foot high bum and then aimed it France across the channel. 22 mile away it was heard as a distant fart.
My grandmother called them doodlebugs as well, with the same comment about if you hear them it’s ok. She said it was the opposite with the V2 - you heard them coming after they had landed.
The biggest problem with those engines is the ungodly loud noise and a low-pressure ratio of something like 2:1. They consume a lot of fuel for the amount of thrust they generate. Also, the valves take a hell of a beating with that cycle. This was probably the best use for them (disposable cheap engines that deliver a payload upon being obliterated).
By 1946 The Royal Navy actually had a weapon system that could deal with the V1 Flying bomb...STAAG Mark 2. Its pretty much a close in weapons system with a pair of 40mm Bofors with a Predictive fire control system and a Type 262 Radar. During the War Britain had Hazemayer Mounts with 2 Bofors (Had Type 282 radar and was manually operated) The V1s cruising Altitude was well within the Bofors capabilities. STAAG was dropped by the Navy in the early 1960s as STAAG was very heavy due to its Triaxle stabilisation system, its vacuum tube computer was not the most reliable out at sea and it was maintenance intensive but it was very accurate and performed much like a Phalanx Close In Weapons system does today.
Well, that's pretty sharp, considering that a) Germany surrendered 9 My 1945, and b) the V1 programme was rendered ineffective due to most of them destroyed in flight by American VT fuzed radar controlled guns developed by 1942.
If most of the doodle bugs were shot down by the wonder gun why did the hospital I was born in suffer a hit in July 1944. Check out official maps of V1 hits on London.
@@jimdonovan243 : Because, obviously, MOST got destroyed by US-supplied anti-aircraft guns, but NOT ALL of them. The Germans launched about 10,000 V-1's against England. It was inevitable that some got through - nothing, not even American anti-aircraft guns, is perfect with a 100% kill rate. Incidentally, "official" lists and maps from wartime of where the V-1's hit are not to be taken notice of. The Germans had a well-placed spy who was supposed to report back where and when each V-1 landed, so that the Germans had quality control. Somehow the British knew there was a spy, so they quietly doctored their lists of where they landed (while keeping the time of hit accurate), in order to destroy German confidence in the weapon's accuracy. The deception worked - the chap in command of the V-1 launches decided that the on-board robot navigation system was a heap of junk and directed that it be removed and launches rely on launch direction and the engine cut-off device (vane odometer). This caused hit points to be scattered all round for miles around. Post-war American evaluation showed that the robot navigation was actually very good.
Too little too late. Not much use anyway unless it had happened to be directly under one of them (assuming it had been available 6 years earlier). The RAF was the most effective countermeasure although AA guns had success later with improved fuses. Some RAF kills were credited to the Army "to encourage the guns'.
My dad was wounded in France shortly after the Normandy invasion. He acquired blood poisoning from the lead fragments and blinded for almost 11 months. While in the hospital, he could hear the V1’s (V2’s were so fast, he would only hear the explosion). He had nightmares for the rest of his life.
nothing much has changed in the sense that this is similar to what the Ukrainians are experiencing with the slower Iranian drones and the high speed hypersonic missiles. Terrifying to those peoples being subjected to them. The irony is that the technology has progressed ( but not much in many ways) but the anti-missile systems are very sophisticated. The method of tackling the V1 in WW2 was to fly alongside in the fastest aircraft of the time and tip them over before they reached their destinations. Fascinating but also depressing especially when you see the trench warfare of WW1 again coming to the fore in Donbas. War is horrible but at the same time fascinating.
@@kosovoisserbia8937 Cheaper than that - the Me262 was cheaper than the Stuka… (Turbojet engines are actually cheaper to make than piston engines of the same power).
My mum was a girl when she saw and heard a V1 over London she vividly remembered the engine stopping they all ran for cover and waited for it to explode, the sound burst her ear drum but she was lucky she said. Many perished or were wounded and windows all around smashed by the blast causing injuries. But mum as she said we had to help the wounded then return to everyday life. I miss her so much now.
My father was a combat engineer in one of the early waves on Omaha beach. His unit moved large amounts of supplies over open beaches in the following months since the German either held or had destroyed the French channel ports. Later in the Summer, V-1s began passing overhead on their way to London. "Sounded like trucks in low gear," he said. So they did!
My late mum was a little girl in WW2 and she told me about ones that landed close to her house. Ive only ever imagined what they sounded like - NOW I know it must have been truly terrifying at night hearing them coming over in their hundreds in the dark. Thank you for sharing.
The BBC does have at least one recording of it from WW2. I remember hearing it played on the radio when I was a kid and my mum explaining about the gap between the engine cutting out and the explosion.
This is down in Virginia at Jerry Yagins museum. This thing sounds ungodly ominous in the real and that silence is when you realize in 1944 that meant death was coming.
My grandmother told me that-as long as you can hear it you are safe-when the engine sound stops it’s coming down. She lived in East London and the house next door was flattened by a V1-lots of damage to her house as well.
My mother, now aged 94, lived in NW London during WW2. She speaks of how terrifying the moments between the sound of the engine cutting out and the eventual explosion were.
@Dir. T. Dichs my father was born 1936, so was 9 when ths war ended, he got bombed out twice, he just turned 86, so yeah there are people that are still alive that used to listen for the engine stopping.
As a boy living near an airfield we saw and heard a few of these dreadful weapons and that sound brought instant shivers. The sound following air raid warnings was frightening and fortunately only one or two fell close by. We also had two V 2 rockets come down close by that exploded in an area away from houses. The marks of the crater of one are still visible to this day.
That looks incredibly cool, but I must say, it sounds ominous and frightening. If I'd have heard it live 80 years ago, I'd imagine I'd still be terrified. Remarkable device.
My late mother was a little girl In WWII and lived through the Blitz. One day in the late '70s, a couple of years after we moved to NZ, she was vacuuming and pulled the plug out of the wall, which unconsciously triggered her to run out of the house screaming. Afterwards, she explained why she reacted to a couple of very puzzled kids.
My grandma was 9y old when these started flying over. From time to time they would malfunction and wipe out half a village. One day she asked my granddad what these “buzzing things” were My granddad (who was an ex Belgian soldier) replied “as long as they make noise nothing to worry about, if they were to stop. Lie down on your belly and close your eyes and ears.”
My mother saw one V1 fly over her parents house headed north. About two minutes later the sound stopped, it landed in a farmer’s field. My maternal grandfather was at facility, one Sunday afternoon, that was preparing for postwar production. A V2 hit the facility about two hundred feet away, he was shaken up; regretfully all the cars and drivers were destroyed and gone in a flash.
My Dad had one come down in his road in Worcester Park near London in 1944 he was 15 and my Grand mother was killed in that blast. They were known as Doodle Bugs or Buzz Bombs
That's right. My mother calls them "doodlebugs" to this day. I commented: "My mother wouldn't watch this. She told me stories about the V1 and how, when the drone noise stopped, the V1 would fall to earth and kill anyone unfortunate enough to be underneath. My father once showed me where he lived with his family as a boy at Chartham Road, London SE25. Two doors down was hit by a V1 and the family inside were all killed."
I was a 16 year old American living in Bedford UK in the spring of 1966 when our homeroom teacher was talking about the V-1 buzz bomb--- if you heard it coming and the sound stopped over you not to worry as it would glide past you, but if the sound stopped before it got to you duck quick--- it was only 21 years after the end of WW2 and I heard lots of stories about nazi bombers flying over head and dropping bombs, US Americans do not know what it is like to have bombers dropping bombs on you I learned a lot the year I lived there
Although it seemed to be "primitive" it was a clever design for the very first purely thrust driven and reliable cruise missile in history. Unfortunately it was developped under a cruel regime during the darkest times in Europe
Why did you not throttle the engine up? I have built several pulse jet engines the largest was 100 lb thrust. For years I wanted to build a full size V1 engine but not sure I ever will, I lost interest. Fun engine, easy to start, easy to throttle, easy to build.
@@GeneralChangFromDanang hahahahaha😐 knew someone would say that. Nah. Billy Idol wouldn't know whether to suck his thump or shit himself first if he heard a rebel yell.
I remember hearing these in London during the war.....we called them "doodlebugs".... they did a lot of damage and killed a lot of people....the world's first cruise missile....
I'm honestly shocked at how well this seems to work. When the technical principal behind it was explained to me it seemed so crude and also downright... unreasonable. I mean like Science-Fiction unreasonable like flying cars and casual teleportation, which would have huge practical implications. But this... seems to just work. Also i now understand why the sound that this engine makes was described as so unique and unnerving: No wonder it blew out your mic, god dayum!
Once these are up and running at full power there are no flames visible, the tailpipe can be almost glowing dull red but not really visible in daylight. This one demonstrated is just ticking over-noise is a big problem if near any inhabited area. Many folks have built smaller versions and powered model aircraft with them, pulse jets etc. are a fascinating subject, and many model engineers have come up with many variations-very fuel thirsty, not cheap to run.
Truly terrifying weapons for their time. I myself have a neighbor here in Antwerp who went through the war as a little girl, she was 14 in 1944 when her friends asked her out to go watch a movie in a well known cinema at the time. She said she would be there but she came from further so she was running late and her friends were already inside, she said she was 3 blocks away when suddenly she heard a whistling sound and a big explosion and a huge cloud of smoke took off. She ran towards it fearing the worst had happened and indeed it had, a V-2 bomb landed in the cinema killing 560+ people at once including all of her friends.
Yousri Ch….I know the Germans put whistles on their airplane dropped bombs . I can find no information that the V-1 buzz bombs whistled on way down. Most accounts said the pulsing/buzzing sound just quit and the bomb dropped to earth.
Doodlebug ... my Grandmother was struck by a V1 Rocket at Liverpool St Station in London during the Blitz ... she was an ATS member on her way home for leave and the V1 came down on the station platform! She was knocked unconscious and found among the rubble of the train tracks by a distant cousin and rescued - many people died but she survived.
No she wasn't struck as such, otherwise she would have perished. She was injured by the explosive blast. And by the way the V2 was a Rocket, the V1 was a flying bomb. 😏
As a six year old I watched a V! doodlebug flying over Banstead in July 1944. It was about 500 feet up and as we watched, the motor cut and it started falling. We rushed into the shelter. The next day we moved to Cornwall.
...not many. And it won't be long after before Americans start saying..."it never happened",...especially when they can believe in fake things...like "pandemics".
Pretty much anyone over the age of 80 who grew up in London remembers these. My mum as well as all her brothers and sisters. She used to collect shrapnel from buzz bombs.
I've now heard the same sound my parents lived through in 1939-45 I listened to many stories over the years about these bombs ! Apparently they would just cut out and down they fell !
Nice job - thanks for sharing. For more details on the V-1, search on TH-cam for the title, 'German V1 Flying rocket instructional video" WW2 training video.
The crown in your icon, same as in statue of liberty, is that of emperors as Comodo, also that of the element Greek called 'Apollyon', and jews 'Abaddon the exterminator' Blessings +
Thank you Tony. This is history, that terrifying sound was the last thing many Brits heard during WWII. Probably one of the most horrifying sounds of that conflict, unless you have a Stuka lying around. Thank you! Also, right down the road from my house...off Princess Ann.
My father as a young boy in London heard (but did not see) one cut out. He ran from the garden into the glass conservatory aiming for the main house. The bomb detonated at some distance, blew the door to the conservatory open, he felt a rush of air and it blew the door between the conservatory and kitchen open. Fortunately by what felt like a miracle it did not shatter the conservatory with my father in it.
It works better when it's flying. It need a constant air pressure on the air inlet on the front side. You don't have that now. That's why you can't have any, or very little thrust. And that's why these aerial vehicles couldn't take off by themselves, but had to be catapulted into the air.
My grandparents were from that generation. I'm a genx myself and think sometimes we are the last that are truly proud of our country, and respect what they had to go through. I served 22 years, fought in two wars and still can't fathom what they went through in WWII.
As far I know the Mosquito, altrough entirely capable, never chased the V-1 because of the danger to damage the wooden wings. This job was left to the Spitfire, Tempest and P-51 and normally the V-1 flew around average speed of more than 550 km/h with their average altitude of 1,000 mt. In this the Tempest was the only aircraft with the low-altitude speed to be effective against it.
When I worked for Qantas airways a friend brought in a 3ft long pulse jet and started it up in the hanger, it sounded like automatic weapons fire and cleared the place out in less than a minute...the bosses were not impressed! 🤣
So THAT thing is what terrified London for awhile in ww2? Fascinating! Thank you. I really dig the stories of the different methods of defeating the damn thing while in flight
For 200,000 years we walked, so it took 200,000 years to master the horse, then 10,000 years to master the steam engine, about another 100 years to master the internal combustion engine, then 40 years to master flight, 30 years to master the jet engine, then 5 years to break the speed of sound, 10 years to put an object in orbit, 4 more years to put a man in space, and then 8 years to land on the moon.
@@kilroy2517 that's amazing, right? Im 50 now. I think of stories my grandfather had of growing up, steam locomotives and the wild west. It's astonishing.
I remember my late father sharing that as a child during WWII, he heard a Doodlebug approach the house where he lived at Great Missenden. He remembered the noise and the light as it lit up his bedroom. The engine quit and he dived under his bed. The engine then restarted and then went off again and continued to do so. The V1 eventually went out towards Brill/Dorton and exploded in a wood. I've actually seen that very crater and its huge. I can only guess that it had an intermittent fault which extended its run whilst losing height in the process. I wonder if any other V1 ever reached as far inland as that one?
I know the crater of an SC 1000 bomb in front of a pillbox of the Maginot Line, exactly the casemate 35/3 near Markolsheim. And yeah, that does be huge---even today *. . .*
My mum lived in London during WW 2, she used to tell us stories about the buzz bombs. We used to go to the planes of fame air show in Chino, California. One day they had an engine also, when they lit it up, my heart dropped to my stomach, I can't imagine the fear everyone had during that time😢
The awesomeness of the sounds and sights in the skies over England would have been a crazy experience. My Grandad has told many stories about living around Fulham and Chelsea at the time.
ingenious technology that can still be used in modern combat drones of today. Had the Germans had a precision guidance system in WWII incorporated into the V1, then it would have had strategic importance instead being a terror weapon.
Hmmmmmmmm, " technology that can still be used in modern combat drones of today " drones are used as stealth platforms. I can't see them being powered by say four of those horrendously noisy pulse jet engines being very stealthy !!!!!!😏
@@brucepickess8097 none of the awesome Ukranian drones from Turkey are stealth, yet they have destroyed a 1000's of tanks, BMP, tankers and other vehicles and killed or wounded many1000's of Russian soldiers. This V1 rocket engine subsonic speed with a 500 pound warhead, GPS guided could hit Russian targets in Moscow and the Kremlin itself.
That's the thing. They had no guidance system as such, just the inbuilt gyro to keep the thing roughly on a set course. The British banned the press at the time from reporting V1 impacts, in case it gave the Germans information regarding their targeting accuracy.....
My father did build one of these when he was in engineering school. It is for nowadays a very primitive engine, nothing in comparison with a modern jet engine. Basicaly you explode the air fuel mixture in a chamber over and over .The exiting gases build then the thrust. However the V1 was the grand daddy of all cruise missles . BTW it was high tech for the time, with a gyrocompass and altimeter it could navigate in a primitive but for the time effective way.
My mum was at school in the war here in Essex. The air raid sirens went when she was having an art exam. The whole school filed out to the air raid shelters except for those taking the exam. They weren’t allowed to leave “because the exam is important”. The raid turned out to be a V1 and they heard the thing coming. The motor stopped and they were sitting in the school art room that had one wall of high windows. A wall of glass, and a one-ton warhead was coming. The flying bomb fell half a mile from the school to the south of the town centre. Mum passed away in 2006 but she was always angry about how they were treated by the school during that raid. In 1970 I joined that same school and had art lessons in the same room. My mum’s geography teacher during the war was still at the school and when I joined had risen to Deputy Headmaster. As an 11 year old, he frightened the living daylights out of me.
My grandparents had their piano tuned back in the 1970s. In the process of tuning said piano the tuner discovered a chunk of ceiling plaster that had become lodged under the some of the metal strings. It had found its way there when a V1 had half demolished the house in 1944.
I saw the movie "Operation Crossbow" as a kid. There was a recreation of the human piloted V-1's at Penemunde where they showed the pulse jet running on a stationary airframe. I called BS because I thought the pulse jet was like a ram jet and only worked when moving. Wrong! But I guess that they didn't produce a lot of thrust when stationary, which is why they were launched by catapult.
The heaviest concentration of V1 falls was roughly just south of the Thames. Knowing this, British intelligence managed to feed back false information to the Germans which made them think that most of the V1s were actually overshooting London and falling north of the city itself. In their efforts to correct this and make more fall on central London, the Germans shortened the range presumably by loading even less fuel. The effect of this was to make the V1s engines cut out even sooner than they did before so that they were much more likely to fall in country areas of Kent and Surrey well to the south of London.
A dreary, monotonous sound that would sound mortifying enough going overhead but then it peremptorily stops, that sudden overpowering silence so much worse as you know this heartless robot plane is about to set about its terrible purpose, and somewhere close by, thereby alleviating many cases of constipation !!
My Granddad was convalescing at a military hospital in Kent right on the V1 flight path to London, they evacuated everyone except them! the Nurses used to wheel them out in the fresh air during the day and they would watch the V1's fly over! At night the engines would keep them awake, i would like to see them do a modern risk assessment on that! Different times, many people just accepted the risk, a very tough generation, my granddad lost a lung in the war but lived until he was 87 and was active right up to then!
2nd day of the doodlebug bombing of London one hit my mums street in Croydon killed a lot of people my mum grandmother and uncle were buried alive under there house for 18 hours till they were dug out. all they had left was what they stood up in house furniture etc all gone
The He-178 was test flown before WW2 broke out in 1939, with a conventional jet engine. The He-280, first twin jet fighter ,flew in 1941. I'm pretty sure the Me-262 was test flown before the V-1. Other types too. The pulse jet came late in the war . It was cheap and quick to produce.
@@patrickhorvath2684 neither the He-178 or the He-280 were used in WW2. The Me-262 did but it was late in the war and had a marginal effect on the war.
There's a British war movie "Operation Crossbow" in which V1s have a prominent role. I always thought the sound of the pulse engine and the flames from the exhaust where more or less fiction by the film makers due to fact that in the production year of 1965 there were way lesser information on such topics as today. For instance just b/w footage about the V! without sound. But seeing this video the film makers were pretty close to the actual thing.
This one is rebuilt for safety, but the sound is the same. It blew my mic out because it was so loud, so the sound is a little low. To put it in perspective, go to a rock concert and put your chest up to one of those large speakers.
As a srudent at Lane tech hs in Chicago in the early 60's there w s a demo of a small pulse jet engine, what an ear splitting noise! Much louder than a F4b short take off with RATO boosters.
I'm kinda amazed by how much this thing can still run, considering it's probably made of subpar materials since these came out pretty late. I might be wrong, but still, those are pretty old parts right there.
My nan was living in London alone while my grandad was in the army. He told her that when she hears a doodlebug coming, to go and sit under the stairs; which she always did. I'm not sure if it would have done any use tbh.
I vividly remember seeing a V-1 as it flew by me late one afternoon about one mile away [not directly overhead]. No flames were coming out of the rear of the motor. I was about 50 miles east of London on the south side of the Thames estuary. I was about 9 or 10 years old. I was more curious than frightened. As I watched the engine stopped and the bomb started to dose-dive towards the ground. I jumped into the roadside ditch [fortunately it was dry]. I was too far away to feel any shock wave or ground tremor.
How old are you sir? Amazing and eerie memories.
@@Toxic2T 86.
@@tedwilks awesome! My friend is 84 but didn't get to live that cuz he was here in Argentina. Loved to hear your story sir
@@Toxic2T Thank you!
Wow that must be one helluva experience
My mother lived through the war in England, and she told me stories about that sound. When it stopped you knew it was coming down close.
My dad en mom were almost hit by a V1. It failed running and the sound stopped. 150m from their houses ( my father and mother lived by their parent, 300m between the both houses) it hit a house and wiped out a complete family of 9 people.
The V1 and V2 made a lot of innocent victim during the war.
But that is always in a war, and always be. 😔
nos.nl/75jaarbevrijding/bericht/2328610-heel-tragisch-v1-treft-velp
And the story of my mam and dad that night
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My grandmother survived being bombed as a baby in london during the war, when she came to Canada she told stories of my great grandmother sifting through rubble to find her. She was bathing her, heard the buzz and it leveled the flat, ejecting my great grandmother onto the street, the bathtub saved my grandmother from the rubble.
@@joseveintegenario-nisu1928
I don't think I want to answer your vision who began the war and who is responsible to all the deads.
This is your vision and I think that you miss the reason why England did "start" the war.
Every war has only losers. The thing is that the human never learn from the pass.
O... and by the way. My grandfather was POW at Fukuoka 2b.
Do your search work again and begin from 1900. And take anti racisme with it.
@@joseveintegenario-nisu1928 It hurts my head trying to understand you. You come across just ranting..
@@joseveintegenario-nisu1928 ...? lol
I remember an old uncle saying that sound brought mixed emotions. Hearing it meant it had passed you so you were happy to be safe but also knew someone else wasn't so it was terrifying.
Absolutely !
Wow - A perspective I didn't think about. Somber almost.
WW2 had a lot of different sounds that could cause fear or dread. Some were intentional. The Stuka siren, for one. This pulsejet engine. Stalin's Organ, the Katyusha rockets. Nebelwerfer rockets... all had distinct sounds that if you heard them you knew you were in serious trouble.
My Dad was Royal Navy and was posted to London during the V1 onslaught. They were charged with the task of clean up after a strike. A messy business, he said.
While on a train, a V1 hit a gas storage tank about half a mile away. He said it was the biggest bang he'd ever heard.
That was from a man who served on battleships firing 16 inch guns in action. He was a great fella.
Damn, he served on Nelson or Rodney? Seems like he would've seen an impressive amount of action with that, my respect.
They say you can look at London from google earth and spot the major impacts of V weapons to this day because of the gaps in row houses and new construction amid old etc.
Yeah, oil and gas storage tank explosions are loud. Had one blow up about two miles from our house when I was a kid and it sounded like very loud thunder even at that distance.
@@thomaszinser8714 Yep has to be the nelson class battleships.
Nelson class battleships! One of my favs. Do you know which one between the two?
What's cool about pulse jets is the sound frequency. Going from idle to full power only changes the amplitude of the sound unlike rotary engines that whine at a higher pitch.
Yeah resonant engines are interesting for sure, they're tuned like an instrument
They have no moving parts to make noise...it's just the sucking of air, the fuel being injected, the burn, the exhaust and then repeat.
@@stevefowler2112 The louvers at the front move.
That's because the flame propagation speed for the fuel mixture remains the same. Adding additional fuel may increase thrust, but you have to keep the mixture between UEL and LEL (Upper Explosion Limit and Lower Explosion Limit). It's kind of a cheesy design, but it doesn't create a centrifugal force like a spinning turbine that has to be countered. Plus, it's a one way trip so who cares about eventual metal fatigue.
The pulse jet is one of the most amazing obsolete technologies. No turbines, no fans, and no propeller. Unfortunately, very inefficient.
And very cheap to produce.
But can run on anything combustible
This version of the jet was decently efficient at speed. There is a one way mesh gate on the front that allows it to suck air from the front but will close and force the exhaust out the rear. Very simple, very effective
A Terrifying vengeance weapon of the nazi regime. One of hitlers vengeance weapons
was the first jet type in service, the Brits invented the jet turbine, Rolls Royce iirc or was is jag? one of those, it never seen service because it was deemed far too inefficient and insufficient to power even itself, but Germany proven the jet age needed to come in, and fast, resulting in an arms race to bring about new fighters, bombers and aircraft. first fighter jets may be German. but the first actual working jet fighters where British. even we toyed with pulse jets.
Testing is complete. Now you can take it home and use it on your neighbors when they get too loud.
Good luck actually hitting them
_"I hear your loud music"_
Points nozzle in their general direction.
Anchors it.
_"Meet this horde of giant angry bees"_
Such a crazy story
Colin Furze built one of these, mounted it inside a 30 foot high bum and then aimed it France across the channel. 22 mile away it was heard as a distant fart.
That reminds me of my dad when he would use a chainsaw near the neighbours
The terror was if you heard it when the engine cut out. It meant it was falling nearby.
My Mum called them “ Doodlebugs”.
My mom was British and said the same thing. As long as it was running and hopefully going past you, you were ok.
My grandmother called them doodlebugs as well, with the same comment about if you hear them it’s ok. She said it was the opposite with the V2 - you heard them coming after they had landed.
I read they were called buzz bombs too.
doodlebug sound so cute :=)
Literally 80% of the U.K. called them doodlebugs.
The biggest problem with those engines is the ungodly loud noise and a low-pressure ratio of something like 2:1. They consume a lot of fuel for the amount of thrust they generate. Also, the valves take a hell of a beating with that cycle. This was probably the best use for them (disposable cheap engines that deliver a payload upon being obliterated).
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Yea i imagine they are rather cheap
@@nutzeeer yea literally just some bent tubes
See "Superiority" by Arthur C Clarke.
Considering the shittiness of the fuel used, them using a lot of it probably wasn't an issue because it wasn't useful for anything else.
By 1946 The Royal Navy actually had a weapon system that could deal with the V1 Flying bomb...STAAG Mark 2. Its pretty much a close in weapons system with a pair of 40mm Bofors with a Predictive fire control system and a Type 262 Radar. During the War Britain had Hazemayer Mounts with 2 Bofors (Had Type 282 radar and was manually operated) The V1s cruising Altitude was well within the Bofors capabilities. STAAG was dropped by the Navy in the early 1960s as STAAG was very heavy due to its Triaxle stabilisation system, its vacuum tube computer was not the most reliable out at sea and it was maintenance intensive but it was very accurate and performed much like a Phalanx Close In Weapons system does today.
Well, that's pretty sharp, considering that a) Germany surrendered 9 My 1945, and b) the V1 programme was rendered ineffective due to most of them destroyed in flight by American VT fuzed radar controlled guns developed by 1942.
@@keithammleter3824 None of that stopped a CIWS being developed.
If most of the doodle bugs were shot down by the wonder gun why did the hospital I was born in suffer a hit in July 1944. Check out official maps of V1 hits on London.
@@jimdonovan243 : Because, obviously, MOST got destroyed by US-supplied anti-aircraft guns, but NOT ALL of them. The Germans launched about 10,000 V-1's against England. It was inevitable that some got through - nothing, not even American anti-aircraft guns, is perfect with a 100% kill rate.
Incidentally, "official" lists and maps from wartime of where the V-1's hit are not to be taken notice of. The Germans had a well-placed spy who was supposed to report back where and when each V-1 landed, so that the Germans had quality control. Somehow the British knew there was a spy, so they quietly doctored their lists of where they landed (while keeping the time of hit accurate), in order to destroy German confidence in the weapon's accuracy. The deception worked - the chap in command of the V-1 launches decided that the on-board robot navigation system was a heap of junk and directed that it be removed and launches rely on launch direction and the engine cut-off device (vane odometer). This caused hit points to be scattered all round for miles around. Post-war American evaluation showed that the robot navigation was actually very good.
Too little too late. Not much use anyway unless it had happened to be directly under one of them (assuming it had been available 6 years earlier). The RAF was the most effective countermeasure although AA guns had success later with improved fuses. Some RAF kills were credited to the Army "to encourage the guns'.
My dad was wounded in France shortly after the Normandy invasion. He acquired blood poisoning from the lead fragments and blinded for almost 11 months. While in the hospital, he could hear the V1’s (V2’s were so fast, he would only hear the explosion).
He had nightmares for the rest of his life.
Sorry to hear that. He was a hero though and never forget that. I've been in two different wars and can't even imagine what they went through.
nothing much has changed in the sense that this is similar to what the Ukrainians are experiencing with the slower Iranian drones and the high speed hypersonic missiles. Terrifying to those peoples being subjected to them. The irony is that the technology has progressed ( but not much in many ways) but the anti-missile systems are very sophisticated. The method of tackling the V1 in WW2 was to fly alongside in the fastest aircraft of the time and tip them over before they reached their destinations. Fascinating but also depressing especially when you see the trench warfare of WW1 again coming to the fore in Donbas. War is horrible but at the same time fascinating.
Thats a sound I hoping I would never hear again in my life, its like bringing some monster back to life
One of the most terrifying sounds of the 1940s, especially when it stopped. The next sound moments later was the BOOM.
Yes. A scarier weapon than the V-2, psychologically at least. Not to mention they could buy many more aircraft of various types with the rockets cost.
@@jaybee9269 actually V1 flying bomb was at least 10 times cheaper than stuka bomber
@@kosovoisserbia8937 Cheaper than that - the Me262 was cheaper than the Stuka… (Turbojet engines are actually cheaper to make than piston engines of the same power).
@@allangibson2408 true
@@jaybee9269 Thing about the V2, when the first ones hit, people had no idea what had happened. The first theory was they were gas explosions.
My mum was a girl when she saw and heard a V1 over London she vividly remembered the engine stopping they all ran for cover and waited for it to explode, the sound burst her ear drum but she was lucky she said.
Many perished or were wounded and windows all around smashed by the blast causing injuries.
But mum as she said we had to help the wounded then return to everyday life. I miss her so much now.
We never really appreciate our parents or how interesting their lives were 🤔.
My father was a combat engineer in one of the early waves on Omaha beach. His unit moved large amounts of supplies over open beaches in the following months since the German either held or had destroyed the French channel ports. Later in the Summer, V-1s began passing overhead on their way to London. "Sounded like trucks in low gear," he said. So they did!
My late mum was a little girl in WW2 and she told me about ones that landed close to her house. Ive only ever imagined what they sounded like - NOW I know it must have been truly terrifying at night hearing them coming over in their hundreds in the dark. Thank you for sharing.
The BBC does have at least one recording of it from WW2. I remember hearing it played on the radio when I was a kid and my mum explaining about the gap between the engine cutting out and the explosion.
This is down in Virginia at Jerry Yagins museum. This thing sounds ungodly ominous in the real and that silence is when you realize in 1944 that meant death was coming.
My grandmother told me that-as long as you can hear it you are safe-when the engine sound stops it’s coming down. She lived in East London and the house next door was flattened by a V1-lots of damage to her house as well.
My mother, now aged 94, lived in NW London during WW2. She speaks of how terrifying the moments between the sound of the engine cutting out and the eventual explosion were.
Even now that sound..........People are alive that remember what that meant.
My mum used to tell me about hearing them come overhead, everyone just went quiet and hoped when the engines cut out.
@@mickenoss Wouldn't they have hoped that the engine wouldn't cut out since if they do cut out, the bomb would start to fall instead of flying over.
@@TheJere213 I meant, hoped it wouldn't land on them.
@Dir. T. Dichs my father was born 1936, so was 9 when ths war ended, he got bombed out twice, he just turned 86, so yeah there are people that are still alive that used to listen for the engine stopping.
My dad was a young American soldier in London during the times of V1 bombs and vividly recalled their sound and damage.
As a boy living near an airfield we saw and heard a few of these dreadful weapons and that sound brought instant shivers. The sound following air raid warnings was frightening and fortunately only one or two fell close by. We also had two V 2 rockets come down close by that exploded in an area away from houses. The marks of the crater of one are still visible to this day.
I like the teeny weeny fire extinguisher in case of emergency.
That looks incredibly cool, but I must say, it sounds ominous and frightening.
If I'd have heard it live 80 years ago, I'd imagine I'd still be terrified.
Remarkable device.
My late mother was a little girl In WWII and lived through the Blitz. One day in the late '70s, a couple of years after we moved to NZ, she was vacuuming and pulled the plug out of the wall, which unconsciously triggered her to run out of the house screaming. Afterwards, she explained why she reacted to a couple of very puzzled kids.
My grandma was 9y old when these started flying over. From time to time they would malfunction and wipe out half a village. One day she asked my granddad what these “buzzing things” were
My granddad (who was an ex Belgian soldier) replied “as long as they make noise nothing to worry about, if they were to stop. Lie down on your belly and close your eyes and ears.”
My mother saw one V1 fly over her parents house headed north. About two minutes later the sound stopped, it landed in a farmer’s field. My maternal grandfather was at facility, one Sunday afternoon, that was preparing for postwar production. A V2 hit the facility about two hundred feet away, he was shaken up; regretfully all the cars and drivers were destroyed and gone in a flash.
My Dad had one come down in his road in Worcester Park near London in 1944 he was 15 and my Grand mother was killed in that blast. They were known as Doodle Bugs or Buzz Bombs
That's right. My mother calls them "doodlebugs" to this day. I commented: "My mother wouldn't watch this. She told me stories about the V1 and how, when the drone noise stopped, the V1 would fall to earth and kill anyone unfortunate enough to be underneath. My father once showed me where he lived with his family as a boy at Chartham Road, London SE25. Two doors down was hit by a V1 and the family inside were all killed."
It still works after about 80 years WOW!!
I'm British 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧.
Awesome!! I touched this exact pulsejet yesterday at the aviation museum yesterday. I did not realize how large they where.
Whoah, the exhaust looks trippy
amazing on every level
I was a 16 year old American living in Bedford UK in the spring of 1966 when our homeroom teacher was talking about the V-1 buzz bomb--- if you heard it coming and the sound stopped over you not to worry as it would glide past you, but if the sound stopped before it got to you duck quick--- it was only 21 years after the end of WW2 and I heard lots of stories about nazi bombers flying over head and dropping bombs, US Americans do not know what it is like to have bombers dropping bombs on you I learned a lot the year I lived there
Although it seemed to be "primitive" it was a clever design for the very first purely thrust driven and reliable cruise missile in history. Unfortunately it was developped under a cruel regime during the darkest times in Europe
biden made them ?
Why did you not throttle the engine up? I have built several pulse jet engines the largest was 100 lb thrust. For years I wanted to build a full size V1 engine but not sure I ever will, I lost interest. Fun engine, easy to start, easy to throttle, easy to build.
What a very cleverly designed engine
I've heard the sound described by several sources, thankyou for letting us hear it for ourselves.
What an iconic engine note / sound 👏 👌 excellent work to everyone involved 👏!!!
The psychology of the bomb was so powerful. English learned to hate the sound, but fear the silence.
As a WWII buff I've always wondered what the "buzz bomb" sounded like. Thank you.
Now as a civil war buff could you recreate the "rebel yell"?
Unfortunately, they've had a tough time booking Billy Idol lately.
@@GeneralChangFromDanang hahahahaha😐 knew someone would say that. Nah. Billy Idol wouldn't know whether to suck his thump or shit himself first if he heard a rebel yell.
Here ya go. This is original footage of Civil War vets doing the Rebel Yell. th-cam.com/video/s6jSqt39vFM/w-d-xo.html
I remember hearing these in London during the war.....we called them "doodlebugs".... they did a lot of damage and killed a lot of people....the world's first cruise missile....
The rebel yell is a complete rip of a native war cry.
Thanks for a wanderful experience to see and hear this engine!!!
Fantastic veiwing , gives you an insight to the frightening sound of the V1! Thank you for sharing 👍
That sound is incredible.
Cool vid. I saw this in person at the museum in VA Beach, but I didn't realize they fired it up sometimes.
There's two of them. This is rebuilt amd the one inside is all original.
I'm honestly shocked at how well this seems to work. When the technical principal behind it was explained to me it seemed so crude and also downright... unreasonable. I mean like Science-Fiction unreasonable like flying cars and casual teleportation, which would have huge practical implications.
But this... seems to just work. Also i now understand why the sound that this engine makes was described as so unique and unnerving: No wonder it blew out your mic, god dayum!
Interesting, yet eerie. I can imagine how this sound made people in London feel.
Once these are up and running at full power there are no flames visible, the tailpipe can be almost glowing dull red but not really visible in daylight. This one demonstrated is just ticking over-noise is a big problem if near any inhabited area. Many folks have built smaller versions and powered model aircraft with them, pulse jets etc. are a fascinating subject, and many model engineers have come up with many variations-very fuel thirsty, not cheap to run.
Truly terrifying weapons for their time.
I myself have a neighbor here in Antwerp who went through the war as a little girl, she was 14 in 1944 when her friends asked her out to go watch a movie in a well known cinema at the time.
She said she would be there but she came from further so she was running late and her friends were already inside, she said she was 3 blocks away when suddenly she heard a whistling sound and a big explosion and a huge cloud of smoke took off.
She ran towards it fearing the worst had happened and indeed it had, a V-2 bomb landed in the cinema killing 560+ people at once including all of her friends.
Sad story
Cinema REX..............;my mother topld me about it ...
@@frankgeeraerts6243 inderdaad
Yousri Ch….I know the Germans put whistles on their airplane dropped bombs . I can find no information that the V-1 buzz bombs whistled on way down. Most accounts said the pulsing/buzzing sound just quit and the bomb dropped to earth.
Fantastich Obere Wasserschlosskammer! So very interesting - and awesome! Thanks!
Doodlebug ... my Grandmother was struck by a V1 Rocket at Liverpool St Station in London during the Blitz ... she was an ATS member on her way home for leave and the V1 came down on the station platform! She was knocked unconscious and found among the rubble of the train tracks by a distant cousin and rescued - many people died but she survived.
No she wasn't struck as such, otherwise she would have perished. She was injured by the explosive blast. And by the way the V2 was a Rocket, the V1 was a flying bomb. 😏
As a six year old I watched a V! doodlebug flying over Banstead in July 1944. It was about 500 feet up and as we watched, the motor cut and it started falling. We rushed into the shelter. The next day we moved to Cornwall.
There are still people alive that hate to hear this sound.
...not many. And it won't be long after before Americans start saying..."it never happened",...especially when they can believe in fake things...like "pandemics".
@@malcolmdrake6137 youre actually fucking stupid
@@malcolmdrake6137 Fucking idiot!
@@malcolmdrake6137 Over half a million fellow Americans have lost their lives to Covid-19... and this is what you have to tell us?
Pretty much anyone over the age of 80 who grew up in London remembers these. My mum as well as all her brothers and sisters. She used to collect shrapnel from buzz bombs.
My late mum and dad who lived in London throughout the war as children referred to the V1 as the buzz bomb or doddle bug. What a generation! RIP.
I've now heard the same sound my parents lived through in 1939-45 I listened to many stories over the years about these bombs ! Apparently they would just cut out and down they fell !
It does buzz ha thanks for the demo . glad i got my demo sitting on my couch. And not in london in 44 !
Nice job - thanks for sharing. For more details on the V-1, search on TH-cam for the title, 'German V1 Flying rocket instructional video" WW2 training video.
Thanks for the tip, that's a good and very detailed video.
The crown in your icon, same as in statue of liberty, is that of emperors as Comodo, also that of the element Greek called 'Apollyon', and jews 'Abaddon the exterminator' Blessings +
Thank you Tony. This is history, that terrifying sound was the last thing many Brits heard during WWII. Probably one of the most horrifying sounds of that conflict, unless you have a Stuka lying around. Thank you! Also, right down the road from my house...off Princess Ann.
I wish the sound was better but it blew out my mic when it started...lol
@@tonystolz4982 it was just fine...I bet there are people that wish they couldn't heat it!
My father as a young boy in London heard (but did not see) one cut out. He ran from the garden into the glass conservatory aiming for the main house. The bomb detonated at some distance, blew the door to the conservatory open, he felt a rush of air and it blew the door between the conservatory and kitchen open. Fortunately by what felt like a miracle it did not shatter the conservatory with my father in it.
It works better when it's flying.
It need a constant air pressure on the air inlet on the front side.
You don't have that now.
That's why you can't have any, or very little thrust.
And that's why these aerial vehicles couldn't take off by themselves,
but had to be catapulted into the air.
Can you imagine chasing this down in a Spitfire?
"Where do we find such men?"
My grandparents were from that generation. I'm a genx myself and think sometimes we are the last that are truly proud of our country, and respect what they had to go through. I served 22 years, fought in two wars and still can't fathom what they went through in WWII.
@@tonystolz4982 Do you think that the younger Generations dont admire your Granpas Generations work?
@@michaelmichael2382 You don't.
The current youngsters or many of them only care for Instagram, Whatsapp, Brawlstars, Fortnite and PubG.
Wars were worth fighting back in the day........you actually fought for freedom and not for corporate interests
And sticking the wingtip under one of it's wings to make it flip over!
This is awesome. thanks for posting this!
It’s produces a kind of mesmerizing and hypnotic ‘fluttering’ sound. Very interesting!
That is very cool. I can't imagine what it would be like at full throttle
There is no throttle that's it.its either on or off
@@jmace5964
incorrect!!!! A throttle valve, connected to altitude and ram pressure instruments, controlled fuel flow.
sounded good!! frightening when it stopped !!!
At least it’s camouflaged, the British Mosquitoes won’t spot it.
Cool video
They have flying Mosquito too! Check my other videos.
Thats what the Germans used to say
As far I know the Mosquito, altrough entirely capable, never chased the V-1 because of the danger to damage the wooden wings. This job was left to the Spitfire, Tempest and P-51 and normally the V-1 flew around average speed of more than 550 km/h with their average altitude of 1,000 mt. In this the Tempest was the only aircraft with the low-altitude speed to be effective against it.
@@paoloviti6156
They were used to hunt the launch sites.
@@logoseven3365 regarding the Mosquito of course and many other airplanes but the Mosquito was probably the best...
Cool , I bet it would look great at night and or through a thermal camera, thanks for sharing
When I worked for Qantas airways a friend brought in a 3ft long pulse jet and started it up in the hanger, it sounded like automatic weapons fire and cleared the place out in less than a minute...the bosses were not impressed! 🤣
So THAT thing is what terrified London for awhile in ww2? Fascinating! Thank you. I really dig the stories of the different methods of defeating the damn thing while in flight
It's an amazing commentary on our time in history that this was futuristic when it was made and just decades later, it is primitive
For 200,000 years we walked, so it took 200,000 years to master the horse, then 10,000 years to master the steam engine, about another 100 years to master the internal combustion engine, then 40 years to master flight, 30 years to master the jet engine, then 5 years to break the speed of sound, 10 years to put an object in orbit, 4 more years to put a man in space, and then 8 years to land on the moon.
@@kilroy2517 that's amazing, right? Im 50 now. I think of stories my grandfather had of growing up, steam locomotives and the wild west. It's astonishing.
Tis but idling!
I remember my late father sharing that as a child during WWII, he heard a Doodlebug approach the house where he lived at Great Missenden.
He remembered the noise and the light as it lit up his bedroom. The engine quit and he dived under his bed. The engine then restarted and then went off again and continued to do so.
The V1 eventually went out towards Brill/Dorton and exploded in a wood. I've actually seen that very crater and its huge.
I can only guess that it had an intermittent fault which extended its run whilst losing height in the process. I wonder if any other V1 ever reached as far inland as that one?
I know the crater of an SC 1000 bomb in front of a pillbox of the Maginot Line, exactly the casemate 35/3 near Markolsheim. And yeah, that does be huge---even today *. . .*
My mum lived in London during WW 2, she used to tell us stories about the buzz bombs. We used to go to the planes of fame air show in Chino, California. One day they had an engine also, when they lit it up, my heart dropped to my stomach, I can't imagine the fear everyone had during that time😢
I was born in 70's but this sound still sends a chill down my spine.
The awesomeness of the sounds and sights in the skies over England would have been a crazy experience. My Grandad has told many stories about living around Fulham and Chelsea at the time.
ingenious technology that can still be used in modern combat drones of today. Had the Germans had a precision guidance system in WWII incorporated into the V1, then it would have had strategic importance instead being a terror weapon.
Hmmmmmmmm, " technology that can still be used in modern combat drones of today " drones are used as stealth platforms. I can't see them being powered by say four of those horrendously noisy pulse jet engines being very stealthy !!!!!!😏
More so the V2.
@@brucepickess8097 none of the awesome Ukranian drones from Turkey are stealth, yet they have destroyed a 1000's of tanks, BMP, tankers and other vehicles and killed or wounded many1000's of Russian soldiers. This V1 rocket engine subsonic speed with a 500 pound warhead, GPS guided could hit Russian targets in Moscow and the Kremlin itself.
That's the thing. They had no guidance system as such, just the inbuilt gyro to keep the thing roughly on a set course. The British banned the press at the time from reporting V1 impacts, in case it gave the Germans information regarding their targeting accuracy.....
@@Brian-om2hh They would also report ‘wrong’ hits….so the Germans would incorrectly adjust the fuel load.
That's insane technology from the 40s . Only with you turned it up all the way .
My father did build one of these when he was in engineering school.
It is for nowadays a very primitive engine, nothing in comparison with a modern jet engine.
Basicaly you explode the air fuel mixture in a chamber over and over .The exiting gases build then the thrust.
However the V1 was the grand daddy of all cruise missles .
BTW it was high tech for the time, with a gyrocompass and altimeter it could navigate in a primitive but for the time effective way.
That is riki tiki cool, thank you for sharing.
And that's why V-1s were known as "buzz bombs".
My mum was at school in the war here in Essex. The air raid sirens went when she was having an art exam. The whole school filed out to the air raid shelters except for those taking the exam. They weren’t allowed to leave “because the exam is important”. The raid turned out to be a V1 and they heard the thing coming. The motor stopped and they were sitting in the school art room that had one wall of high windows. A wall of glass, and a one-ton warhead was coming. The flying bomb fell half a mile from the school to the south of the town centre. Mum passed away in 2006 but she was always angry about how they were treated by the school during that raid. In 1970 I joined that same school and had art lessons in the same room. My mum’s geography teacher during the war was still at the school and when I joined had risen to Deputy Headmaster. As an 11 year old, he frightened the living daylights out of me.
Marvelous video recording ! The only problem is that we don't see any details. Take it easy. We will guess what is happening !🙄😕
Buzzbomb sounds even sweeter when it's non-lethal ❤️
Must be quite a sight in total darkness.
My grandparents had their piano tuned back in the 1970s. In the process of tuning said piano the tuner discovered a chunk of ceiling plaster that had become lodged under the some of the metal strings. It had found its way there when a V1 had half demolished the house in 1944.
Pub-goers used to say: "If it's going to get you, it's going to get you wherever you are !".
Wasn't that about the V-2??? The V-1 was sub sonic, you could hear it coming. The V-2 was super sonic; you didn't know about it until after the boom.
@@7891ph That 2
@@scottw550 who's on 3rd .. lmao
Just like the real thing...
That unsettling low frequency "thrum" that could be heard from kilometers away. Great video!
I saw the movie "Operation Crossbow" as a kid. There was a recreation of the human piloted V-1's at Penemunde where they showed the pulse jet running on a stationary airframe. I called BS because I thought the pulse jet was like a ram jet and only worked when moving. Wrong! But I guess that they didn't produce a lot of thrust when stationary, which is why they were launched by catapult.
It was the Fieseler Fi 103R, code-named Reichenberg.
Plus the obvious….lack of survivability for a Pilot baling out.
The heaviest concentration of V1 falls was roughly just south of the Thames.
Knowing this, British intelligence managed to feed back false information to the Germans which made them think that most of the V1s were actually overshooting London and falling north of the city itself. In their efforts to correct this and make more fall on central London, the Germans shortened the range presumably by loading even less fuel. The effect of this was to make the V1s engines cut out even sooner than they did before so that they were much more likely to fall in country areas of Kent and Surrey well to the south of London.
A dreary, monotonous sound that would sound mortifying enough going overhead but then it peremptorily stops, that sudden overpowering silence so much worse as you know this heartless robot plane is about to set about its terrible purpose, and somewhere close by, thereby alleviating many cases of constipation !!
That just about sums up the reality
My Granddad was convalescing at a military hospital in Kent right on the V1 flight path to London, they evacuated everyone except them! the Nurses used to wheel them out in the fresh air during the day and they would watch the V1's fly over! At night the engines would keep them awake, i would like to see them do a modern risk assessment on that! Different times, many people just accepted the risk, a very tough generation, my granddad lost a lung in the war but lived until he was 87 and was active right up to then!
2nd day of the doodlebug bombing of London one hit my mums street in Croydon killed a lot of people my mum grandmother and uncle were buried alive under there house for 18 hours till they were dug out. all they had left was what they stood up in house furniture etc all gone
1:34 and that’s when you need to run
Absolutely incredible, that sound would have been terrifying
Not as terrifying as when the engine stopped and you knew it was coming down.
First jet powered aircraft of ww2. It's amazing they thought of that tech back in the late 20's and 30's.
The He-178 was test flown before WW2 broke out in 1939, with a conventional jet engine. The He-280, first twin jet fighter ,flew in 1941. I'm pretty sure the Me-262 was test flown before the V-1. Other types too. The pulse jet came late in the war . It was cheap and quick to produce.
@@patrickhorvath2684 neither the He-178 or the He-280 were used in WW2. The Me-262 did but it was late in the war and had a marginal effect on the war.
There's a British war movie "Operation Crossbow" in which V1s have a prominent role. I always thought the sound of the pulse engine and the flames from the exhaust where more or less fiction by the film makers due to fact that in the production year of 1965 there were way lesser information on such topics as today. For instance just b/w footage about the V! without sound. But seeing this video the film makers were pretty close to the actual thing.
A original v1 motor ? this is the real sound ?
This one is rebuilt for safety, but the sound is the same. It blew my mic out because it was so loud, so the sound is a little low. To put it in perspective, go to a rock concert and put your chest up to one of those large speakers.
It's need powerful air flow to work better and louder
@@tonystolz4982 jeez-are you serious? 'gulp'!
As a srudent at Lane tech hs in Chicago in the early 60's there w s a demo of a small pulse jet engine, what an ear splitting noise! Much louder than a F4b short take off with RATO boosters.
Did V1's use compress flammable gases for fuel?
The original ones used 80 octane gasoline, but could actually run on just about anything flammable. I believe the one here uses compressed gas.
That sound…..both sinister and fascinating 🚀
I'm kinda amazed by how much this thing can still run, considering it's probably made of subpar materials since these came out pretty late. I might be wrong, but still, those are pretty old parts right there.
This one was rebuilt. There's a complete original inside the museum.
ah i see. Doesn't make sense for them to run something that old if they want to keep it. still, solid engineering right there
My nan was living in London alone while my grandad was in the army. He told her that when she hears a doodlebug coming, to go and sit under the stairs; which she always did. I'm not sure if it would have done any use tbh.