Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Superforts had arrived over Tokyo flying high and riding tail winds that boosted their speed to around 400 m.p.h. The Japs were surprised, their defenses were weak. The big Forts laid a pattern of bombs across the main target, sprawling Nakajima Aircraft plant, eleven miles from Tokyo's center. They saw heart-warming fires spring up, then high-tailed for their island home...
...seven times the weight of its explosive in fuel. It probably has a series of jets, operated in succession to keep the rocket going on its long course (and perhaps helpful also in steering). One plausible reconstruction, by Martial & Scull, Manhattan industrial designers, indicated a steering mechanism in the tail. It seems unlikely that V-2 is steered by radio, since V-111s not and, at the heights to which V-2 climbs (60 miles or more), accurate observation to correct its deviations from the set course would be difficult. With a trajectory like that of a long-range shell...
Random Hits. Witnesses who saw the V-2 falling at night said it looked like a "falling star" or "the tail of a comet." By day, it looked like "a flying telegraph pole." Louder than V1, the rocket explosion could be heard for 20 miles...
According to a sectional diagram in the London Daily Express, a radio control unit is mounted immediately behind the warhead. Then come hydrocarbon and liquid oxygen fuel chambers, a centrifugal compressor, a combustion chamber, and a set of tail fins 10 ft. long...
...wood . . . should be so ... important. He can be invited to the White House, consulted by OWI, received by the royalty of Europe. . . . It's ridiculous, even, that my appearing any place without Charlie is a complete failure. I do think it's a case of the tail wags...