From KEN HARROW
Yes, you could hear a V-2 coming after it had arrived (Letters, 25 June).
It was my good fortune, both from the points of view of my own personal
safety and Ernest Spratt’s curiosity, to be standing some distance from,
and perpendicular to, the flight path of a V-2.
It announced its arrival with its customary signature of a double bang
(bow wave followed by explosion) followed by a sound as of something shooting
away on a parabolic trajectory from the point of impact. This could have
only been the sound of the final stages of its journey to us, in reverse.
Instead of the usual double bang we had BANG, BANG, WHOOSH all in very
quick succession.
Ken Harrow West Wickham, Kent
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