Setting around Sunday morning with my mind wandering, I got to thinking I wonder if there is anything on youtube with that dive bombing aircraft sound. Did I learn something today! I was under the mistaken impression that it was just the sound that all airplanes would make dive bombing. Wrong! From wikipedia: The (Junkers) B-1 was also fitted with Jericho trumpets, essentially propeller-driven sirens with a diameter of 0.7 m (2.3 ft)[43] mounted on the wings leading edge directly forward of the landing gear, or on the front edge of the fixed main gear fairing. This was used to weaken enemy morale and enhance the intimidation of dive-bombing. After the enemy became used to it, however, they were withdrawn. The devices caused a loss of some 20–25 km/h (10-20 mph) through drag. Instead, some bombs were fitted with whistles on the fin to produce the noise after release.[44] https://youtube/watch?v=LCB8ZVxKqyI And, dive bombing was an different variation of just plain aerial bombing, but Ill not go into that.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:54:57 +0000
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