Stuka siren

They were called Trumpets of Jericho by the Germans, and there’s examples on Youtube, IIRC and the BBC sound effects recordings. There’s a fair amount of documentation if you do a reasonable search – certainly I turfed up a lot when researching the Stuka pilot role of Aeroplane’s Aircrew feature.

I have mentioned this on a couple of previous threads but with no response so I thought i’d try it on a thread of its own.

Has anyone tried putting the siren from a Stuka on a modern day plane and put it in a dive to see what it really sounded like? Could be a good demo at an airshow.

At the 2007 Omaka Classic Fighters they had an example of the famous Junkal Stukost (sometimes known as the Percival Provost) which mocked the role of the Stuka, IIRC, with a siren. A ‘proper’ Stuka dive might be quite hard to imitate at a show, starting and ending at what would seem like great heights.

Unfortunately imaginative innovation at shows is both awkward and sometimes expensive, so less tried than it might be.

HTH.

There’s film over on the Pathe Website of Army manouevres with RAF participation in 1941. Apart from laying smokescreens one of the Blenheims featured in the film actually has a siren fitted in order to demoralize the enemy. It sounds like an American police car siren of the same period.

Ooops, sorry Augsberg!:o
I assume as you do re basic workings of the siren.

Thanks Pagen, what I mean is I haven’t seen one for sale or in a collection, internally I suppose it has the same action as an air raid siren with a rotor and stators?

This guys youtube channel is strangely watchable!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/e57michel

Augsbergeagle, it was the small prop driven item on the port U/C fairing leading edge.
I always thought (probably wrongly) that it was only a handful of early Stukas that had sirens fitted, and the actual diving and bomb dropping caused enough noise – but then that could be ‘film bias’!

I’ve never seen one, I suppose it has the same operation as an air raid siren??

It’s something i think every time i watch Battle of Britain. Just how loud were they?

I wonder how many of the original sirens survive?

Saw one attached to a Murphy Moose at Osh a couple of years ago he said he used it to frighten the moose off the landing area he had selected!!