[a4000]

Pilots chasing down V-1s who shot at them from directly behind would risk immediately flying at high speed into the wall of shrapnel created by blowing up essentially a large powered bomb, often destroying or damaging their own aircraft in the process, which was very dangerous.

To avoid this, some pilots developed the tactic of flying along side the V1 then using their wingtip against the V-1 wingtip they would then flip it over and off course disrupting the primitive autopilot system so it would then spiral out of the control and hit the ground and explode hopefully in relatively harmless field.

[robbiep]

yes, that's exactly what I had absorbed from somewhere

[fbdab103]

Ah yes, the safer alternative of nudging your plane against the flying bomb.