File:Seen at the London Science Museum (2197739743).jpg

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Description These are the compressed air tanks from a V1 flying bomb. They are heavily strapped like this to contain the high pressure air within. This was used to feed fuel (petrol) to the Argus pulse jet and to operate the pneumatic powered flying controls. Incidentally a small "windmill" on the nose spun in the slipstream and when it had spun enough revolutions a spring knife device cut the air hoses to the elevators making the bomb dive on the target. The launch crews never discovered that this nose over action also stopped the engine, the V1 was supposed to hit the target with the engine running.
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Author Les Chatfield from Brighton, England

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Elsie esq. at https://flickr.com/photos/61132483@N00/2197739743. It was reviewed on 13 May 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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