GLIDER BOMB
MORE DETAILS OF GERMAN
INVENTION CONTROL BY FOLLOWING PLANE WITH PILOT WATCHING FLIGHT (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, February 9. Further details have now been published of the new German rocket-pro-pelled glider bomb. It is believed to be about 20 to 30 feet long, with a tail and fins acting as a rudder and stabiliser. It has a wing-spread of about 15 feet and is apparently armour-pierc-ing, since one penetrated the thick deck plates of a ship at Salerno. The bomb is released from the belly of a twin-engined Heinkel, which drops its flaps and, slows while the rocket shoots ahead into the pilot’s vision, under radio control from the Heinkel. The pilot exercises control of the bomb apparently according to what he can see of its flight. The bomb can make a sharp turn against a target from the side. It is apparently under good control, except when the control plane is interfered with. Whether the Germans can muster a large fleet for use against invasion is unknown, but it must be assumed that they can.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1944, Page 4
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183GLIDER BOMB Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1944, Page 4
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