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My Dad did, both in France up to and including Dunkirk, and later, in the desert. He passed away last December, but I remember him telling me about it, and how, particularly at Dunkirk, under constant and heavy bombardment, the 'scream' of the 'Stuka' really pushed some people over the edge. Whether an intended part of the design or not, the 'scream', also heard from JU88's incidentaly, which didn't, as far as I know, have a 'siren', certainly had a marked phsycological impact.
Whoa!heres a photo clearly showing the little propeller on the right hand undercarriage pylon
Full praise to the modeller who did an excellent job
I've heard that there was a "door" to close off the incoming air to the siren... but, you are saying that the propeller and/or siren could be electrically disengaged... sort of as in flipping a circuit breaker, right?If you ever messed around with an old early 1900s "oogah" horn, I suspect it is the same principle. Its a squirrel cage fan in a shaped cavity. Operates on a similar principle to a whistle. I suspect that instead of electrical motor powered, the Stuka siren is wind driven. A simple solenoid could be used to engage and disengage the propeller from the siren itself.
Great additional on the Stuka, GrauGeist...I had asked an old friend of the family about the siren when I was a kid, he told me the siren was called a "Jerico Trumpet".
When the Stuka entered it's dive, the siren's brake was released as the dive flaps were deployed. Once the dive brakes were retracted, the siren's brake was reset. He also told me that the brakes sometimes didjn't reset entirely, and the poor pilot/crewman had to listen to the siren turning slowly all the way back to base...
That would have drove me insane...lol
Anyway, hope this helps shed some light on that.
Also, my Uncles who were in the Pacific Theater during WWII told me the Japanese used to call the F4U Corsair "Whistling Death" because of the sound it made in a dive while attacking. My guess behind that would be the air whistling through the foreward cooling vents on the wings?
Yes... good to know. I had no basis for comparison.I thought that "prop" was abit big when compared to some photos I had
Thanks Terry for the info ,didn't know that!
Which is 100% more than most of us have ever seen......All I've found so far is an un-anotated cutaway of a JU87B, which clearly shows the housing and small 'prop', but no explanatory notes.
Is that possible? It'd be great... this could be old ground already here.Some merging needed.
Is that possible? It'd be great... this could be old ground already here.
Threads are now merged together.
Thanks, very much.
Didn't mean to duplicate, but am very glad for all the great history here.