I’ve just finished reading “The War Diaries of Neville Duke”,a brilliant book that covers all of his wartime flying career.I’d recommend it to anyone.
Duke’s final combat tour was as CO of 145sqn in Italy in 1944,and one entry for September ’44 refers to what he calls ‘Screamer Whistles’ being fitted to the wingtips of his Mk.VIII Spit.
I’d never heard of these devices before and it’s got me wondering how widespread they were,what they looked like,how they worked etc. Anyone out there heard of these things before?
By: DazDaMan - 9th December 2004 at 17:48
:p
Gonna get my Aircraft Spruce catalogue in the new year…!!
By: adrian_gray - 9th December 2004 at 14:37
If I recall rightly (a rare event!) there are pictures in one of the Blitz Then & Now/BoB T&N series of “screamers” made from old bayonet scabbards fitted to the tailfins of German bombs. Imagine a hole like that in an organ pipe cut in a knife scabbard, and you’re about there. Anyone got one of those books to hand? I suspect that the “Screamer Whistles” would be something similar.
Adrian
By: Olivier Lacombe - 9th December 2004 at 13:56
Of course that’s the plan Daz. We just don’t know how it looked! 😉
By: DazDaMan - 9th December 2004 at 08:26
Probably to act like a Stuka’s siren (ie, put the ****s up the enemy troops) when attacking.
By: Mark9 - 9th December 2004 at 01:11
Spitfire you called 😉 😀 Anna 😀 :diablo: :diablo:
By: Olivier Lacombe - 9th December 2004 at 01:05
Hell Ant.
Our AME, which was in the French Air Force during the war (yes, he’s old) says the Yanks put such things on P-47s to make more noise when straffing. It was a lenght of tube, in wood.
I don’t have any more infos.
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