Club members have an exclusive and fantastic opportunity to ask the BBMF questions on anything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Flight, for a videoed Q&A session which will be posted online.
Header image: A German V1 flying bomb diving onto London.
In today’s world we have become familiar with news of attack drones being used to hit targets. Both sides in the Ukrainian war regularly use drones, and in recent time we have also seen mass drone attacks by Iran against Israel and the use of drones by Houthi Rebels against shipping in the Red Sea. It is worth remembering that between June 1944 and March 1945 Britain was subjected to a sustained campaign of air attacks by unmanned air vehicles – attack drones – in the form of Nazi Germany’s Fieseler Fi 103 V1 (the ‘V’ stood for ‘Vergeltungswaffen’, vengeance or reprisal weapon), the ‘Buzz Bomb’ or ‘Doodlebug’ as it quickly became known to the British public. The V1 was effectively the world’s first cruise missile and the first to reach England impacted at Swanscombe in Kent on 13th June 1944.
During 2025 we are presenting the image from the Club calendar in the newsletter for that month, with some details about the picture, including when and where the photo was taken. All the photos in the calendar were taken by Club members.
