Scott Lowther wrote in message ...
Pat Flannery wrote:

Scott Lowther wrote:

P.S. Sadly, Mark Wade is continuing the mythology that the A-9/A-10 ICBM
was to be manned. Bah!



It would be interesting to know how they intended to get it within a
hundred miles of either New York City or Washington D.C. with their
then-current guidance technology,

Sheer luck, and hard work. That was acknowledged as one of the problems
with the concept. And the fact is, Hitler (oddly) had a serious distaste
for Kamikaze weapons, right up to the end of the war, when he finally
okayed manned Fi-103 (V-1 buzzbombs). The notion that he would have
given the okay for a manned V-2 weapons system anytime prior to late 44
is laughable.


There is great info about the Fi 103 Re 4 in the auto biography and
biographies of Hanna Reitsch. She was the only test pilot of the
'manned V1' (and there were 7) who was neither killed nor injured
testing the Fi 103 Re 4!
In fact her life as a pilot and test pilot is almost beyond belief.
She may have been the greatest test pilot of the 20th century!
(The only woman to ever fly a rocket plane! The Me 163)

It is interesting that in the end even the Nazi high command
considered the
Luftwaffe-Selberstopfer-Divison to be nuts! And killed the project.