I wasn't being critical of your original post, I thought it would be of interest to others of how our network evolved in a steam era with electrification mixed in as well and how eventually sense prevailed with standards in the post war period.
I also seem to remember from memory that with all the V1's that came over here the average kill ratio was something like less than one individual for every rocket, or something like that. A pretty expensive piece of kit to use as a killing machine, but then that was just part of it as psychology was the fear it also created to people. My grandparents lived just south of London and they used to see them go over and just look up and wait for the motor to cut out and hope it didn't land near them!
The V1 had a top speed of about 350mph and the Hawker Tempest was the first aircraft I believe to be able to match it for speed and tip wings with it to flip it to a point it upset the gyro and it crashed. The Spitfire assisted when it had the Griffon engine and between them they worked to destroy them. It wasn't always wise to get too close and fire at them as if they exploded you also could become a casualty.
The Meteor in reality only had limited success in destroying V1's, there total kill tally was I think 13, but then they did come into service a bit later.
As I understand it, the V1 got a little faster as it emptied its fuel tanks, so it was hauling buns near the end of its mission. Most of the planes at the time that could exceed 400 ph or even 350 could do so only at altitude, but the V-1 could hit about 400 at 3,000 feet. Not much of anything flying (except maybe the ME-262) was really faster at those altitudes, but a fighter pilot of a Spitfire, Tempest, or such could dive on it from, say , 10,000 feet and get considerable speed advantage on it - of course you only got one pass, but . . .
From what I have read, the Meteor entered service in July '44 although only a few and at first, they were limited to flying only over England, and had very short duration - less than an hour, so they did not really get involved in combat in time to do much with anything, but they were used as V-1 interceptors, and between their top speed, and the fact that apparently they were the fastest plane there was in a dive, they had a better chance that anything else.
I got all this from a really neat book, by the way, Fighting Hitlers Jets, by robert Dorr, not a lot of stuff I learned that wikipedia didn't have in it, except pictures of two American P-80 jest in Europe and ready for action before the end of the war. Never knew our jets at least made it there, if not into combat, before it was over.
Anyway, one of the war movies Veranda Turbine made ends with four Meteors making a low level pass overhead and one of them breaking off into a Victory roll.
