Reichenberg!
$1050.00
9x12"
Acrylic & Alkyd
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This piloted Fi 103 is being jumped by a
Gloster Meteor M.III from the RAF No. 616 (F) Squadron, 1944.
The Reichenberg was a german attempt at creating a piloted version of
the famous V-1 Buzz Bomb. The intention was to aim the aircraft
at a target, such as a ship, and bail out at the last moment. Never
mind that bailing out might cause you to miss, and that the cockpit was
right in front of the jet intake, or that if you did manage to escape
the hurtling bomb you would be parachuting into the North Sea...
It was considered to be very likely that this would be a one way trip
for the pilot. There were actually several volunteers all ready
to go, but the people in charge had second thoughts. Obviously, since
the Reichenberg was never actually used in combat,
this is an alternate history painting. Had they been used, it would
have been very hard to stop them. See the model I built of the Fi 103 Reichenberg aircraft to create this painting. The Gloster Meteor is on its way later... |