R.A.F Hawker Typhoon takes down V1 flying bomb (doodlebug) - Blender 3.3
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2022
- The Hawker Typhoon was a fast ground attack interceptor which packed a punch.
It was mainly used for (rhubarb) attacks armed with cannons and later rockets it could take on anything from anti aircraft guns, tanks ,trains and any other heavy ground targets. It was also pivotal in softening targets before and during D - Day . Due to its great speed it was decided a limited number were to be held back as Air Defence Great Britain these Typhoons most likely belonged to 137 and 263 squadrons whose many air defence roles included the taking down of V1 flying bombs or (doodlebugs ) (buzzbombs) bound for England .The pilots referred to these lethal V1 weapons as "divers" .
The WW2 R.A.F pilots counter attack to the V1 menace was to gain altitude and dive at the flying bomb from the side opening fire with it's guns and cannons whilst using the deflection method of shooting.
If guns and arnament failed or were exhausted it was found and proven that you could tip these flying bombs out of the sky by disturbing their own air flow.
The skilled brave pilots did this by chasing and matching the bombs flying airspeed usually around 320 to 340 mph .They would then place the tip of their wing with great precision under the V1 wing and they would then rock their own wings from side to side to create an airflow disturbance ,which would in turn cause the V1's guidance gyroscope to fail and send the bomb crashing to earth.
Pilots accounts show when they tipped these flying bombs the idea was NOT to touch the V1 in any way but use the wing airflow and aerodynamic pressure to destroy it.
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This is so great. Plus, all the rack focus stuff is such nice icing on an already-incredibly-impressive cake. Really sells the drama & realism. Love it. And on a personal note, I’d never even thought about how pilots took these down. I feel like I have a far greater sense now of just how incredibly difficult, brave & terrifying this must have been. Really excellent use of Blender for educational purposes. Thank you for making it & sharing with the world. 👏👏👏
Thank you very much your comment pretty much summed up everything we wanted it achieve with this vid.Keep a look out for more of our ww2 aviation animations.
F-22 Pilot: "Our first shootdown was a balloon!"
Spitfire Pilot: "Hold my ale for a minute..."
Brilliant :)
Australian pilot.
@@bluemarshall6180 Hold my tinnies
That's not a Spitfire, is a Tempest, and the black & white stripes in the wings and fuselaje where put in place during the D-day and after. Greetings from Santa Rosa-La Pampa-Argentina.
Or Typhoon, sorry i'm confused with the type similar.
The advantage of the tipping method being that they didn't have to fly through a cloud of hot shrapnel, the usual result of a successful gun attack.
But they didn’t do that . Your assumption is totally wrong
But I think not was easy to shot down or needed to go back to refill the magazine,cheers,salute
What
@@MonkPetite fact check your fact checking!
My Mum can remember the V1's over London, as a little girl, before she was evacuated. That very distinctive exhaust, and the sudden silence is something she remembers so clearly.
Yes, the sudden silence part must of been terrifying and not something easily forgotten. London was frequently hit.
I'm glad to see you didn't do it with a wing tip touching, as many people thought it was done that way. Impressive video Gaz, as usual 2 thumbs up
Cheers Steve and an account was found through research from a ww2 RAF pilot diving his Typhoon at the V1 in order to fly underneath it, then pull up so fast in front of it that the Typhoons prop-wash from its huge propeller knocked the V1's guidance gyro out and down it went .So it could be said these pilots got so skilled and familiar with attacking the V1 they were inventing various ways to take them down.Structurally to actually hit the wing had to be the very last resort alongside attacking it too close in range which were the riskiest ways of confronting them .Saying that ,it's all risky though as it was afterall a flying bomb !
Great channel! 👍
Thank you very much JohnnyJohnsonEsq ..You have a great channel too ! check it out www.youtube.com/@JohnnyJohnsonEsq
The Typhoon is my favourite aircraft of all time... seconded by the Camel TF.... followed by the Skyraider.
"Pilots accounts show when they tipped these flying bombs the idea was NOT to touch the V1 in any way but use the wing airflow and aerodynamic pressure to destroy it."
I was always given to understand that the pilot would tip the V-1 with their wing tip from underneath, but your description of disrupting the air flow makes far more sense as the gyro of the Buzz Bombs was extremely delicate.
Excellent vid!
The Typhoon was a very powerful low level fighter .It's fair to say it did have its problems but when it was working correctly it could cause massive devastation at ground level , it's one of our favourites too.
@@SpitfireCGI Nothing beat that H-block Sabre!
Heard a talk given by an RAF pilot at the 8th AAF historical society meeting yrs ago about doing this, don't recall his name now. He stated they found flying close enough to disrupt airflow was enough to send the buzzbomb outta control and that he'd personally never would attempt tipping it with his wing tip. Flying that close to one was scary enough for him. He did say a meteor pilot he knew did tip one damaging the wing tip.
Yes it seems the preferred way for the pilot to tackle these flying bombs was to force aerodynamic pressure on them.The wing tipping, actually structurally hitting the bomb ,was much more risky .A WW2 RAF Typhoon pilot said he got underneath one carrying more speed and pulled up in altitude sharply in front of it .I suppose doing that the massive backwash of the huge Typhoon propellor hitting the front of the V1 would caused it no end of problems .I don't think we can quite imagine just how skilled these ww2 pilots were ! The Pilot gives his account 18.23 ua-cam.com/video/pYQ-owqnCyw/v-deo.html
I would be interesting to know a little story about the pilot who figured this out
What a beast the typhoon was
A good book for research is Diver Diver Diver a complete catalogue of the V1 and the aircraft that took them down
I believe Wing Commander Johnny Johnson was the one who pioneered the technique.
@@arniewilliamson1767 It could also be this chap ..www.elinorflorence.com/blog/rcaf-spitfire/
@@SpitfireCGI Could be I was reading about Eric Brown, and he mentioned Johnny Johnston as the one who perfected it. He also stated that the Tempests were later employed as it was the only allied aircraft that could catch the v1 in level flight.
The Jack Dempsey of WW2 aircraft. 😁
Excellent work, Gaz. Love the way the score increases in intensity during the chase and culminates the final destruction of the V1. CGI much better than on some 'professional' productions.
Thanks P R V That's a great comment ,that's where we hope to be heading ,to get to that Pro level !
The Typhoon has long been my favorite WW2 British single engine fighter it just looks dangerous sitting still and at low level it was more than a match for anything flying
Agreed ,a definite bruiser of an aircraft with immense firepower at ground targets.
With an engine with not one but 2 crankshafts....
@@douglasgreen437 The Napier Sabre 24 cylinder
What a fantastic piece of work. THANKS for this... love it !
Thank you , that's very much appreciated !
Wonderful work once again
Cheers AFL Thank you !!
There’s a ‘gun camera’ film of a ‘V-1’ being pursued from astern & shot down with the warhead exploding…. an awesome sight.
At the speed the focused pilot was flying there’d be no time to avoid flying into that blast zone, & a ‘Free French’ pilot died in doing so.
Will check that gun camera footage out, thanks for the heads up!
Thats brilliant. Great video.
Cheers Pete ,thank you !
@@SpitfireCGI I remember reading somewhere a while ago, that the V1 was faster than the spitfire so pilots would dive down from 5,000ft to get enough speed to catch them. Because they had some much explosive on them they preferred to tip the wing rather than shoot them down.
@@Builtbypete There is so much info in these comments left here under the vid to read through, its been great !.Our research showed the RAF's preferred method for tipping was to disturb the V1's airflow with their aircrafts wingtip rather then physically hit the V1 bomb with a wing .However the best and safest method was to intercept the V1 ,to attack it from the side (port or starboard) or even in a dive .That way you would avoid the shrapnel and debris from the explosion. Also the V1's speed was never a constant it could be anywhere from 200 - 400 mph and it was rapidly degrading just by the act of it being launched.
1st known drones to take flight
They were, deadly and designed for vengeance .
Excellent liked the dial shots, adds a bit more tension, demonstrates the technique beautifully
Cheers Mark, it worked out well in the end !
@@SpitfireCGI It's real ,cruize missile flying straigth and leveled on the sea, flat earth proof.
Fantastic CGI - you deserve more recognition. 👌
Very kind of you to say that ,that drives us on!
Great work Captain
Thank you very much !!
Germans got smart though with this to put contact sensors on the tip of the wings where the bomb would explode destroying both rocket and the airplane.
This didn’t happen - the wing tips never touched each other.
Nice animation. Lots of twitching and buffeting.
So which aircraft can claim wing tipping the V1? Spit, Tempest, Typhoon, Meteor…How many others?
That was great to see the skill, they had to do that this way, well done!
Thank you very much Nigel - yes it was a great skill ,it is important through research to document this event.
@@SpitfireCGI I could not agree more I read about them in books and it was fascinating to watch it like this! Well done to you and how may hours did it take you to d, if you want to just saw the hours ok 🙂
It took about 3 weeks , in hours I would say from concept modelling storyboard animation sound design original music score about 60 hours.
@@SpitfireCGI Wow! Well done 8 have never been involved in that sort of thing but I can well imagine how complex it might have been! again well done 👍
Cool video!
Thank you very much.
Nice work.
Thank you
Yes…Give the wingtip a bump and the gyro on the V-1 could not compensate. That was a very dangerous and courageous act by the British pilots. Unfortunately, many V-1’s did make it through. Later, they were succeeded by the supersonic V-2’s. Thank you, Werner von Braun, et Al.
Yes the V2 had the potential to be massively more destructive than the V1 .Untouchable by any defensive measure, a ballistic weapon thankfully taken out at its launch and manufacturing facilities by the RAF and allied forces and Werner Von Braun went to work on the USA space Apollo program post ww2.
They actually didn't bump wing tip to wing tip, but instead the Typhoon pilot got his wing tip in front of the V-1's, disrupting the airflow and causing the V-1 to roll. The trick is that you didn't want to touch tips as that would cause damage to your plane too. But you had to get your wing tip just ahead of the other: too close and you may collide, too far ahead and your slipstream didn't upset the V-1's.
Yes, the Yanks certainly fawned over him and other Nazi rocketeers post WW2 gave him a fantastic life plus any number of decorations and awards......Might not have been so friendly if their country had been on the receiving end of Bombing, V1 and V2s....They all had blood on the hands....
Bravo! But I think that a Typhoon would probably ditch it's rockets beforehand to increase it's speed through improved aerodynamics and weight. Don't you think?
Agreed ,yes in hindsight for our animation ,that would definitely give the Typhoon the best fighting chance !
U r soooo good at this cgi and editing stuff, 👌
Kind words ,thank you !
Nice work
Thank you! Cheers!
There was this old church volunteer who was around 6 remembered the " putt putt putt" of the v1's engine over the skies.
That would be the pulse jet engine on the V1,a unmistakable sound perhaps remembered for a long time after,no doubt
Good job 👽
Thank you
That was awesome..doing a scratch build of a Typhoon now..wingspan..8 foot 2 inches!
Thank you and good luck with your epic Typhoon scratch build!
@@SpitfireCGI thanks..she's a biggy!..wing done..now for the fuselage..lol
Please do put a vid or something on UA-cam and let us here in the comments know when it is finished. I do a bit of CGI modelling but I love the real world stuff as well. Wishing you all the best!
@@SmallerLives ok..i'll see what i can do..for you
That's crazy. 😂🤣
British aircraft apparently didn’t touch the wing tips of the v 1s, but affected the airflow which then affected the gyroscopes of the V 1 and caused it to malfunction and therefore plummet to the Earth
Yes ,as our vid clearly demonstrates .To physically tip the v1 wing through contact was attempted but it was an extreme last resort .Using aerodynamic pressure instead was the cleanest method if all guns/cannons were exhausted or unavailable .
Nice video,
Only 1 fault V-1 interceptors are highly modified Tempest mkV's Spitfire mk9 and later variations, P-51D & H's.
Typhoons could not keep up in flight with V1's
Yes ,agreed the Tempest mkV's, Spitfire mk9, Mustangs ,Mossies ,P38's, did much more damage to this menace and was best suited for the take down of the V1s but check out the exploits of 137 Typhoon Squadron out of R.A.F Manston tasked against the V1,they would catch them around 320/340 mph .137 Typhoon squadron helped cover the D-Day landings and was then withdrawn to operate against the V-1 .The vid is dedicated to them and all who went after these flying bombs.
the fault is only mounted rockets which you don´t need for pursuing V1 and also lowering your airspeed :)
@@michalsovicek7660 Perhaps we could say these could of been early proximity rockets and fire control in the Typhoon cockpit was not responding so the pilot went after the v1 in this most dangerous of ways .Saying that you are absolutely right the rockets would of added to the drag and aerodynamics taking away some of the top speed of the Typhoon in the pursuit of the flying bomb.
The typhoon was one of the few aircraft that could catch a V1 in level flight. The Spit Mossie and 51 had to dive onto it
Typhoon just over 400 mph top speed
@@SpitfireCGI The Mark I version, later mods got it to over 450
The Tempest and Meteor were others.
Over 400 mph that’s amazing for 1940’s propeller aircraft.
@@zeus-mt7wx The fastest propeller plane of the war was the later mark of the spitfire, with the Griffin engine. I believe it tapped out at something like 480 mph
epic!!!!
Cheers, thank you !
@@SpitfireCGI keep up this amazing videos!!! very useful in classrooms too !!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you 😀
@@unspacy2099ad We will do our best ,thank you for the encouraging words .If they can be useful in classrooms all the better!
Your most welcome
They say there's a bomb with your name on it. I felt sorry for Mr and Mrs Doodlebug next door...
My father worked on typhoons along with spits hurricane and mossies
We thank him for his service.
Excellent animation! I always wondered however, why they chose to do the wing tip spin on the V-1s instead of just pull up behind them and shoot them down.
They would explode when shot and could damage the plane doing the shooting. Also, the wing tipping wasn’t necessarily a physical touch. The wingtip of the allied plane, when brought close to the wingtip of the V1, would cause changes in pressure and airflow, changing the drag on the V1 wing and rendering it unstable - flipping it. Dangerous as hell to pursue and knock down a V1. Cool video. I love when people make things like this.
@@lukedelalio3155 and Glenn I'll add to that ,to fire astern (directly behind) was to risk your aircraft and life .I read records when the V1 was attacked this way the explosion would also cause the attacking aircraft to go inverted as it flew through such a huge change in air pressure the aircraft immediately lost lift and also one pilots notes said to turn his right cabin vent/heater off or the force of the flames could enter his cabin and burn his trousers ..amazing pilots !.The preferred attack method was a beam attack or side attack using deflection shots ( firing before but where your target is likely to be ) it was the best way to take the V1 down.The flipping of the V1 using airflow and pressure was attempted when all guns /cannons were depleted or jammed as a last brave resort ,they would then match its speed and tip it.
TBH tipping was also extremely dangerous at high speeds and low altitudes....never the less impressive, but not common. Pilot reports suggest they did physically hit the bombs as much as let aerodynamics do the work. Almost certainly the shed vortex from the aircraft wing and prop wash had the desired effect as large aircraft can tip over smaller planes in their wake with ease. You do have to take unverified pilot claims with a pinch of salt though.
@@lukedelalio3155 Yes, you are right, being behind the bomb at the moment of explosion extremely dangerous. Also, some think the attacking aircraft physical flipped the bomb, although this may have happened, disrupting the airflow over the bombs wing is what caused them to dive for the ground...Pretty damn clever really ... not to mention dangerous...But what the hell, flying a Typhoon was danger in itself
The wings didn’t touch. It was enough to get the fighter’s wingtip close underneath the V-1 wingtip to interrupt the airflow which tipped it over.
This tactic was as dangerous to the RAF fighter as it was to the V-1. I read a book years ago that detailed the dangers. I ronically, the Typhoon was the only RAF fighter that could catch the V1.
Very true , however a few other aircraft came along that were more than capable , namely the Hawker Tempest ,DH.98 Mosquito ,Spitfire , Meteor then the Americans with the p38 and p51's.It was in big trouble by then and the ground AA with proximity shells .
Wrong. The Tempest, Griffon engined Spitfires, some Mosquitoes and of course the Meteor Jet could all catch a V1. There is a wingtip from a Meteor in the Imperial War Museum with a dent in it after it performed the V1 tipping trick after it’s guns jammed.
The typhoon would not have been fast enough to catch a v1, the Tempest with it's laminar flow wing and cleaner lines was mainly used for the task, a long with the later Griffon engined Spitfires.
@julianmartin8356 Here the V1 is tracked at 320 - 340 mph .The Typhoon from a dive would catch it and it did. Perhaps read the videos description about it ,then research 137 and 263 Squadron operating Typhoons and the V1's they caught and brought down. The Tempest was the top scorer.
@@julianmartin8356 My main point was simply the hazards associated with this tactic. The Typhoon had enough issues of its own to warrant its withdrawal from service. Pilots would rather try to shoot it down than attempt wing tipping. It didn't matter what they flew. As to catching the V1, I think it would have depended on the circumstances. The P51, for example, was among the fastest piston engine planes in the Allied arsenal, yet the pilots had to use diving attacks on the ME262 to have any hope at all of catching it long enough to take a shot.
très fort
Cheers , merci beaucoup
Just give a taparoo.
Just a question here: how is it physically possible for a plane with a top speed of 430 mph to execute such a maneuver on a V1 missile that moves at about 580 mph? Anyone cares to elaborate?
You may have your 580 mph mixed up with kmh..They could not do 580mph
And London was saved....
Grampa sitting in the outhouse, not so much...
They did get through and then could take any one out at anytime .
Wasn’t there a Australian spitfire pilot do something similar?
That is right Australian Kenneth Roy Collier of RAF 91 Squadron based at Manston took down V1s and is recorded as the first pilot to catch the V1.He caught up with it in a Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV
destroying the V1 bomb using the wing lifting method was performed only after the ammunition was fired, besides, you had to work hard because not every attempt to lift the wing unbalanced the bomb.
Yes and if you were chasing the V1 from the English Channel across our coastline over land , time was against you as you would run into the AA Bofors defensive flak battery and no RAF or allied pilot wanted that, they had to get the job done and fast !
Yes. these were the so-called defense belts. before London itself, the balloon barrage was the last line of defense
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Сколько ни пытался, сделать это в "ил-2 штурмовик" - не получалось. Поэтому я и диванный пилот, а не настоящий.
Так что это правда, что для авиасимулятора очень сложно подражать, не говоря уже о том, чтобы попробовать и поиграть. Это просто показывает нам, насколько хороши были все пилоты во Второй мировой войне.I hope the translation works, as i'm British
I doubt the typhoon involved was carrying rockets
Always wondered why the Germans didn’t just launch the V2’s at night or in bad weather…then they would be very difficult to intercept….the V2 at night would have the glow from the engine, but still harder to judge distance to intercept
Because they're unguided. Night wouldn't be a problem, but bad weather could throw it off course
V2 were the upward firing guided ballistic rockets, not many of them were ever launched but the ones that were did devastating damage, they were impossible to intercept ,speeds upwards of 3000mph. The V1's were the conventional flying pulse jet bombs, speed approx 300 to 400 mph .Yes some of the V1's were launched at night and were found by the persuing pilots and gunners to be easier to pick off as they lit up the sky and their position with the flames from its engine.
V1, not V2. V2s were ballistic missiles, practically impossible to counter as they flew on a suborbital trajectory; they are said to be the first manmade objects to reach the edge of space.
@@SpitfireCGI completely missed the fact he said V2. You'd certainly have difficulty getting a spitfire to intercept a v2. That is unless it's doctor who
@@nondescripthandle212 I'm not sure about the circumstances but one V-2 got shot up during launch.
It didn't explode but having holes in the propellent tanks can't have helped.
I read a story about this actually happening because the pilots guns jammed.
Very true guns jamming did happen.Then the pilot takes the decision to get alongside the flying bomb if he's out to sea he doesn't have long to take the v1 down, as the British coastal anti aircraft battery will soon have him and the v1 in range . Unimaginable bravery
@SpitfireCGI Today, ya can't get a 19 year old to get a job, let alone do that. Sad, sad world we live in.
Those Typhoons weighed 8 tons
They did indeed .A heavyweight fighter!
The flying bombs were actively stabilized by the autopilot reference to gyroscopes. The airframe design was not stable at all.
The tipping procedure was based on getting the gyros to exceed their limits. Once they tumbled, stability was gone.
Hmm. Rig the bomb to go off if stability is lost. But don't arm that function until a few minutes have passed since launch.
Very true a Canadian Spitfire pilot found he had to have his compass reset on landing and hit on the idea of disturbing the V1 's compass to knock it out. www.elinorflorence.com/blog/rcaf-spitfire/ .Also the V1 by its nature as a pulse jet engined flying bomb was effectively degrading as soon as it was launched ,so there would always be a randomness in its performance speed as a weapon.
The wings of the V1 had no ailerons.The gyros acted only in two dimensions,pitch and yaw.
Авторам ролика было бы полезно знать, что на перехват V-1, самолёту совсем не нужно подвешивать под крыло ракеты для штурмовки...они снижают и скорость и маневренность!!!
Совершенно верно, но, возможно, в этом случае мы могли бы предположить, что управление огнем ракеты не работает. Так что у пилота не было другого выбора. Hope that all translates alright,i am British so i did my best.:)
Unfortunately or fortunately no Hawkers where assign to hunt V1’s .
Nor tipping was done. It was not a common practice and the order was given to restrain from that practice.
RAF 137 Squadron , out of Manston Kent - Hawker Typhoon 1b .Tipping was a last resort. Using aerodynamic pressure/disturbance was preferred to banging wings .The Tempest had the most success from the Hawker Aircraft company but the Typhoon did take down V1's ,though not many , it still did fight the v1, so for this reason this story should be told.
Hawker Tempest? By far the most successful V1 hunter aircraft.
@@imperialinquisition6006 I did say from the Hawker Aircraft Ltd company . De Havilland,Supermarine ,North American Aviation all had many successes too
Lancaster gunners shot down a V1 and a ME163 too.
On one OP they also optimistically fired at a V2.
@@larryjenkinson4789 So true the Lancaster tail gunner got one ..confirmed!
Who was there to video the event because it is a video, not a film. Remember there was no video in the forties. This video is a CGI
Wow!
RAF did that? I doubt it.
Well perhaps doubt no more because in ww2 they exactly did !
In reality they cannot catch up 😅
In reality they did !
Great job. Would make an excellent movie. This pilot saved a lot of misery and destruction. The third reich was unleashing on the world.
Thank you and yes it absolutely would ,there's enough thrills ,adrenaline, skill, determination to make into any film.
British is Best . And isn't that all the time ?
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Perhaps read a book
And now Ukraine needs aircraft to shoot down the latest terror weapons from Russia. Which is dangerous. The V-1 carried a 1,000 pound bomb; imagine flying through that explosion. Planes were lost doing that.
Yes so true ,it was always going to be risky for them brave pilots shooting at a flying bomb.
I salute those heroes from the bottom of my heart
A Typhoon fitted with rockets and racks able to even catch up with a V1? I don't think so.
The Tempest Mk5 was the best V1 killer
Yes , it had a very impressive score against the V1