Tamiya 61065 - 1/48 Gloster Meteor F1 w/ V-1 (Fieseler F  [61065]

Concerning the Gloster Meteor F.1 with V-1 (Feiseler Fi103)

In belated 1940, the British Air Ministry provided the Gloster Aircraft Company because of the specifications for a jet-powered fighter. March of 1943 saw the prototype, designed with the De Havilland's H.1 motor, succeed on its first test flight. Subsequent testing resulted in the mounting of two Rolls Royce engines, which provided the Gloster Meteor F-1 a remarkable top rate of 668km/h.
At a comparable time, the German side ended up being developing a frightful brand new tool. The Fieseler Fi103 ended up being built with the first pulse jet engine ever sold, flew at a top speed of 640km/h and carried a 850kg of explosives. Referred to as V-1, this unmanned traveling bomb was launched from a steam driven catapult and directed by a gyroscope and a small nose mounted propeller. Direction, altitude and distance were checked in trip, until a fixed distance was reached, at which point it might drop and explode on top below. V-1 attacks lasted until March of 1945, by which time about 5800 bombs had wreaked heavy harm in London as well as the surrounding area.

On August 4th of 1944, while traveling their Meteor on jammed, he recorded initial triumph over a V-1 using the tip of his wing to knock the gun off course, in which it crashed in an unpopulated area. The innovative development of both the Meteor as well as the V-1 laid the inspiration for future jet fighters and missile weaponry.