It was an innovative design that used a pulse-jet engine, while previous work dating back to 1915 by Sperry Gyroscope relied on propellers. While employed by the Argus Motoren company, Fritz Gosslau developed a remote-controlled target drone, the FZG 43 (Flakzielgerät-43).

The Argus As 014 (designated 109-014 by the RLM) was a pulsejet engine used on the German V-1 flying bomb of World War II, and the first model of pulsejet engine placed in mass production. License manufacture of the As 014 was carried out in Japan in the latter stages of World War II, as the Kawanishi Maru Ka10 for the Kawanishi Baika kamikaze jet.

A pulsejet engine (or pulse jet) is a type of jet engine in which combustion occurs in pulses. A pulsejet engine can be made with few [1] or no moving parts, [2][3][4] and is capable of running statically (that is, it does not need to have air forced into its inlet, typically by forward motion).

Perhaps the most famous, or should that be infamous, pulsejet engine of all time is the huge unit designed by Schmidt and built by Argus in Germany for their V1 flying bomb. This engine was a masterpiece of simplicity and heralded in the dawn of what we now know as the cruise missile or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Feb 6, 2015 · On June 13, 1944, the quiet was shattered. Just after 4 a.m., the skies to the south of the city exploded to the sound of ack-ack guns. As air raid sirens wailed, civil defence crews watched in disbelief as a lone aircraft streaked across the skyline at lighting-fast speed.

Feb 21, 2022 · Germany hurled more than 10,000 V-1s at Britain and some 2,500 at Belgium before its last launch site was overrun on March 29, 1945. The “buzz bombs” (so nicknamed for their distinctive engine stutter) killed an estimated 11,000 people in both nations.

Powered by a simple but noisy pulsejet that earned it the Allied nicknames of "buzz bomb" and "doodle bug," more than 20,000 were launched at British and continental targets, mostly London and Antwerp, from June 1944 to March 1945. It carried a one-ton, high-explosive warhead and had a range of about 240 km (150 miles) but was very inaccurate.

The V1 flying bomb was one of the most fear-inducing terror weapons of the Second World War. Thousands were killed and wounded by its warhead, but alongside those civilians are the forgotten victims of the V1 the people who made them.

The V1 Flying bomb was the worlds first cruise missile. An unmanned gyro guided plane that delivered a tonne of high explosive each time one hurtled into the ground. 2419 were to explode in London between June 1944 and March 1945, which is just 9 months.

Oct 25, 2019 · Unlike other aircraft of this time period, the thing that sets the V-1 flying bomb apart from most aircraft was, rather than having it be powered by a propeller, the V-1 had a jet engine.