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The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1" [a]) was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation was Fieseler Fi 103 [3] and its suggestive name was Höllenhund . It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug [4] [b] and Maikäfer . [c]
The Argus As 014 (designated 109-014 by the RLM) was a pulsejet engine used on the German V-1 flying bomb of World War II, and the first model of pulsejet engine placed in mass production. License manufacture of the As 014 was carried out in Japan in the latter stages of World War II , as the Kawanishi Maru Ka10 for the Kawanishi Baika kamikaze ...
Argus As 014 pulsejet engine of a V-1 flying bomb at the Royal Air Force Museum London. In 1934, Georg Hans Madelung and Munich-based Paul Schmidt proposed to the German Air Ministry a "flying bomb" powered by Schmidt's pulsejet. Schmidt's prototype bomb was rejected by the German Air Ministry as they were uninterested in it from a tactical ...
Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1 flying bomb) The Fieseler Fi 103R , code-named Reichenberg , was a German manned version of the V-1 flying bomb (more correctly known as the Fieseler Fi 103 ). It was developed towards the end of the Second World War and was intended to be used as a human-guided bomb in suicidal attacks against the advancing Allies.
The Porsche 005 (full RLM designation 109-005) was a small, single-use turbojet design intended to power a long-range version of the V-1 flying bomb. [1] [2] [3] At the end of World War II, the design of the Porsche 005 turbojet had not been finalised and no parts had been constructed.
V-1 flying bomb V-2 missile V-3 cannon. V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen (German pronunciation: [fɐˈgɛltʊŋsˌvafṇ], German: "retaliatory weapons", "reprisal weapons"), were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly strategic bombing and aerial bombing of cities.
The robot was sub-contracted by centers like Bruns Werke and Neidersachswerfen's Mittelwerk. The unpiloted aircraft was assembled at the KdF-Stadt (now Wolfsburg) [a] Volkswagenwerke ("Volkswagen works", described as "the largest pressed-steel works in Germany" [1]) at Fallersleben, [2] and at the Mittelwerk, underground factory in central Germany.
In 1958, after the engine development branches of Heinkel and Messerschmitt were acquired by Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke (aircraft and engine manufacturer), Gosslau became a director of Junkers until 1963, when they were converted to a stock company, a technical board of the Munich-based company. Gosslau died in Grünwald, Bavaria, aged 67.