Stuka question

[CorsairFreak]

This will prolly be an easy queston for most of you. I beleive I know the answer but I just want to confirm.

What made the whinning sound when they dove?

I thought that it was the air going into the intake. My teacher insists that there was a siren mounted on the wing that made the noise. Who is correct, if either?

[Steve T]

Hi CF--

Wind-driven siren mounted, iirc, on one of the gear legs...the air through the rad probably made a nice whine of its own though, like that fantastic howl an approaching Mustang makes...

S.

[HarvardIV]

Siren it was.

[N3Njeff]

Corsair had the whistle caused by the intakes at the wing roots, hense the Japanese nickname "whistling death".

Love that sound...............my CD "round sounds", you can hear it perfect.

[John Lane]

Actually it's the vanes that direct the airflow to the Induction System and Innercoolers.

[airnutz]

About the Stuka siren...it has also been referred to as the Jericho Horn,
or Jericho Siren, in reference to the biblical story.

[CorsairFreak]

Thanks guys, you can never be to sure with some of my teachers these days. For instance I was told that the reason Hitler took power was because of the US Stock Market crash.

[CorsairFreak]

Today in class I learned that to operate either a V-1 or a V-2, all you have to do is enter the GPS coridnates and fire, and it can go anywhere in the world!!! WOW DIDN"T KNOW THAT!!

[HarvardIV]

I learned babies come from cabbage patches, and the stork delivers them. That would explain yearly migrations..

[airnutz]

Uhhh...so..what's yer point Chris?

[HarvardIV]

Just a followup from Corsairfreak.

[airnutz]

Sorry C, you misunderstood..I was jokingly agreeing with your version of
Sex Ed. 101...

[HarvardIV]

Oh ok didn't know, openended..