![]() ![]() There can be not doubt that the man whom the Gospel describes as going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and falling into the hands of brigands is an image of Adam being driven out of paradise into the exile of this world. In the Scriptures Jericho is often represented as an image of the world. The priest merely sounded their trumpets, and the walls of Jericho collapsed. How then was Jericho stormed? No sword was drawn against it, not battering ram was aimed at it, no javelins were hurled. Once Jericho was surrounded it had to be stormed. Origen sees the fall of Jericho as prefiguraing the End of the world, the trumpets of the Israelites as foreshadowing the last trumpet of the angels, Rahab the harlot and the scarlet cord prefiguring the Church, saved by the blood of Christ. In the Old Testament people, events and institutions, he saw figures or foreshadowings of future New Testament realities. Fairly reliable, but not impossible for it to get stuck, if damaged in combat or if out of adjustment.Origen, one of the greatest Scripture Scholars and preachers of the early Church, was renowned for his Spiritual or symbolic interpretation of Scripture. It would be fairly easy to have the propellers turning all the time but to have some form of clutch (as you suggest) that engaged the siren only under certain conditions, such as during the actual dive of the dive-bombing the simplest and most reliable way of achieving this would be a 'centrifugal' clutch that engaged the siren when the speed of the small propeller went above a certain RPM as the aircraft speed increased. But surely nobody is going to want the damn things howling all the way to the target and back so I'm sure some practical solution was come up with (and I may have even read something about this in the past but cannot remember). ![]() Purely automatic in operation (no electric wiring or hydraulics) and (apparently) 'impossible' to switch off. The 'classic' Stuka siren was the one (the ones) fitted to the undercarriage struts and driven by a small propeller. ![]() Maybe not the 'fog of war' exactly.you just need an explanation that fits all the contradictions. I'm sure you're more of an expert on this subject than I but there is a lot of contradictory information - all of it well documented - out there. I read one account by a stuka pilot that his brake wouldn't engage and he had to fly all the way back to base with the thing screaming. 14th April 2016 at 19:02 - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00īut I've read the sirens had clutches or brakes, which could be switched off by the pilot. Have any stuka pilots ever referenced the sound we've all heard and known as the 'stuka siren' (which has become so famous as the generic plane crash sound / anvil falling on wiley coyote's head sound in the american cartoon, etc.) in their interviews or memoirs that you know of? Yes, and I hear you and your colleague are in agreement on this (I haven't spoken to him yet myself). I recall reading that it would clear the hangars out in a hurry. 14th April 2016 at 18:05 - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00Ĭannot remember where I read it but when the P-38 was being investigated for compressibility issues, the test pilots used to play jokes by diving with the props in fine (maybe course) pitch to make the plane howl. ![]() As an absolute certainty, none of the Ju 87 Stukas shot down over Britain from July 1940 onwards were fitted with such devices.įinally, I did suspect it was for Dunkirk as I believe a colleague is already assisting you! In short, I have two or three letters from veterans saying they never had sirens fitted to the Ju 87 Stuka and that they were certainly removed by. A different note, for sure, but have you ever heard the sound of a T-6 Texan/Harvard at full chat? It has a peculiar and very distinctive propeller induced noise. However, I'm convinced the siren-like noise was a combination of several things the engine note in a dive, air rushing through/around the dive brakes, around the spats and perhaps the chin scoop and angular airframe itself, plus, the possibility that part of the howl is also propeller noise. Probably an afternoons work for the newsreel crew and that recording has been carried down through the generationsīut are you actually hearing a 'siren'? They are spoken about as being heard on the beaches at Dunkirk, and in the Battle of Britain. The sound can be heard in German newsreels from 1939/40, so I think it's the real thing. ![]()
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