"...and fighter pilots learned to tip the V1s off-course with the turbulence from their wings..."
That would clear up the "fender bender" issue that I'd wondered about.
I'm just glad that America's German scientist were better than the Soviet's German scientist for the "Space Race".
America’s German scientists had a reason to work better.
Yeah. Maybe I should read the article. Tip vortices would definitely cause a problem for the lower wing.
But I heard about this as a kid in the ‘60s, that the Spits would just give ‘em a calibrated whack. Maybe an interpretation that observers on the ground saw.
Bernoulli’s principle