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London was still being scourged by buzz-bombs, but Allied airpower was smiting the Germans with greater force, the Germans were close to rout on the Russian front, being mauled without letup in Italy. Even though there was a stalemate on the Normandy front it was a time for rejoicing by Britain, which had once stood alone against the Axis. It was also a time to tell the world that the British Empire was still the Empire. Said Winston Churchill...
Stenciled in white on the wings of Nazi buzz-bombs are the words Nicht anfassen (Don't Touch). Britons heartily agree. But some men for professional reasons must get almost within touching distance. "Doc" Salomon...
...American, was studio manager for Warner Bros, in Britain. With Chief Sound Engineer Ernest Royle, "Doc" was responsible for last week's scoop broadcast of the sound of a flying bomb, passing very close overhead and crashing with a terrific explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...
...buzz-bomb which the professor finally produced is not a rocket (rockets are propelled by gases generated by their own fuel), but a jet-propelled missile which carries 136 gallons of gasoline, has a range of about 150 miles and a speed of 200 to 300 m.p.h. The length of its flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket...
...Nation Could Feel Safe. . . ." The greatest flaw in Professor Oberth's gyro-steered product is its inaccuracy. Inventor Hammond dismisses current buzz-bombing as a form of "making faces, beating drums and throwing stink bombs." But Hammond, himself the inventor of a radio-controlled glider bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile...