Cicero - I’m not sure which one it was. I only know a handful were produced at the end of the war…
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I wasn’t sure about this, so I Googled it…and got wildly differing opinions. WW2 bombs either
- Didn’t whistle at all
- Whistled, but not per design - the whistling being a side-effect of being launched from high altitude. When the bomb reaches terminal velocity, the rush of high speed air against the tail fins creates the whistle
- The bombs were fitted with cardboard whistles on the nose for psych warfare
I’m inclined to think 2) is the correct answer, but having never launched a bomb in anger in my life (more’s the pity), I wouldn’t know for sure.
Germans weren’t the only ones with screaming planes. The Japanese called our F4U Corsair “Whistling Death” because of the noise it made in a dive.
Thanks for all the info. This is a great site.
As far as the movies go, they make up/ exaggerate/ outright lie about so much.
How did they get an artistic license for that and how to I get one?
It’s not experimental anymore when you’re outfitting front line interceptor squadrons with it.
The Me-262 was not something they whipped up in a few months. It was the product of years of development - the project was started when Germany was winning the war - and by 1944 was as ready as it was ever going to be.