Tamiya 61065 - 1/48 Gloster Meteor F1 w/ V-1 (Fieseler F  [61065]

Concerning the Gloster Meteor F.1 with V-1 (Feiseler Fi103)

In late 1940, the British Air Ministry offered the Gloster Aircraft business with the requirements for a jet-powered fighter. March of 1943 saw the model, equipped with the De Havilland's H.1 engine, succeed on its first test journey. Subsequent screening led to the mounting of two Rolls Royce engines, which gave the Gloster Meteor F-1 an impressive top rate of 668km/h.
At comparable time, the German side had been developing a frightful brand new tool. The Fieseler Fi103 was designed with the first pulse jet engine ever sold, travelled at a high speed of 640km/h and carried a 850kg of explosives. Known as the V-1, this unmanned flying bomb premiered from a steam driven catapult and guided by a gyroscope and a tiny nose installed propeller. Direction, altitude and distance were monitored in flight, until a fixed distance had been reached, at which point it could drop and explode on the surface below. V-1 assaults lasted until March of 1945, where time about 5800 bombs had wreaked heavy harm in London while the surrounding area.

On August 4th of 1944, while flying their Meteor on jammed, he recorded 1st success over a V-1 using the tip of their wing to knock the gun off course, where it crashed in an unpopulated area. The revolutionary growth of both the Meteor while the V-1 laid the foundation for future jet fighters and missile weaponry.