Type B are medium case steel bombs of 50, 70, 250, 500 and I,700 kg. The fragmentation effect of these bombs is more efficient than those in A owing to their heavier wall construction. They are usually distinguished by a red stripe painted on the tail vanes and/or on the tail cone, or by the tail cone being painted red all over (German marking, SD).

Small Triangulo — Triangle shaped with powder less than the Bawang and usually wrapped in brown paper measuring ¾ inch at its longest side. Just before Christmas in 1943, We heard a strange sound in the sky, and looking out saw a strange aircraft flying very fast low overhead with a long tail of flames coming from an engine mounted on it's tail. The noise was a like a demented rasping motorcycle.Type A are thin case steel bombs of 50, 250, 500, 1,000, 1,200 and 1,800 kg. They are distinguished by a yellow stripe painted on the tail vanes and/or on the tail cone, or by the tail cone being painted yellow all over. (German marking, SC.) In Metroid Prime, Meta-Ridley's fire Mbombs make this sound, while his Macross Missile Massacre has a Stuka Scream-type sound.

Thomas Pynchon’s masterful World War II novel, Gravity’s Rainbow, begins with one of the most memorable lines in literature— A screaming comes across the sky.It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. It is too late. Pink Floyd, The Wall uses the sound. Pink's father is killed by a bomb from a dive bomber. Since the plane dropping the bomb was an Axis plane during World War II, it might actually have been a Stuka. The photographic flash-bomb is similar in weight and dimensions to the 4·5 in. flare and contains a very dangerous explosive. An embossed plate on the body is marked "FLASH" in large letters. The closing dome and tail fins are painted red. I got a scholarship to the Salisbury Cathedral Public School. I must have been the only pupil who could not read or sing a note of music. I won the Scholarship because the headmaster was impressed by my wish to become a designer, and because i knew exactly what I had to do to get there.c) A sheet metal collar may be welded to the case between the filling cap and the shoulder. The collar, which is often painted red, is drilled and tapped to take 8 screws. An auxiliary petrol tank of similar shape measuring 6 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 8 in.., but made of aluminium and without a tail fin is also used i) That illustrated in Figure 58 which is a small flare 1 ft. 3 in. long and a little over 3 in. diameter. Ten of this type are released from the containers type F (ii) or F (iii) (see Figure 47).

Now don’t ask me why sound producers decided to use the sound effect heard from a pilot’s perspective. guy ropes. The bowl may still be attached when it reaches the ground, or may be found some distance away. Incendiary bombs with the explosive charge in the nose plug irrespective of whether the nose plug is electron or steel are known as type B; viz., B 1 EZ–B and B 1.3 EZ–B. These were at first marked by a red painted B on the flat of the nose; a later marking is ZB or B stamped on the nose. (See also the markings given on the I.B.E.N. and I.B.S.E.N. in Figures 12 and 13.) German Stuka bombers in WWII initially had had wing-mounted sirens to intimidate their targets. When this practice was stopped (the sirens added drag), they began adding whistles to the bombs themselves, creating this effect. The normal American smoke bomb is the 100 lb. bomb. It is identical in external appearance with the American 100 lb. incendiary bomb except that a yellow band surrounds the body and the filling contains phosphorus.

Physical problem of whistling

iv) The 500 lb. smoke bomb is of sheet-steel construction painted green. It is 13·1 in. diameter, is fitted with a tail and contains a phosphorus filling. Usually, though not always, an example of artistic license, as in Real Life, the pitch of the whistling noise would increase rather than decrease as the object accelerated towards the ground, due to the Doppler effect. Possibly justified in that those who have heard a bomb whistle and lived to tell about it were usually in a position (such as the plane) moving away from it.

World War II MMOFPS WWII Online includes sounds for falling bombs. If you're close enough to hear it, you're probably dead. The in-game Stukas are equipped with a toggle for the Stuka whistle.Two types of whistle, sometimes attached to the vanes of German high explosive bombs, causing them to scream as they fall, are illustrated in Figure 35. These whistles are often found near the scene of a bomb explosion. Some historians and soldiers argue that the whistling was intended to warn civilians of the coming danger, so they could have time to take cover or run away, but that theory falls apart when you look at the physics of such a sound. It would be nearly impossible to tell what direction the bomb was coming from by the wail alone, so it could be headed straight for you, or might land 120 yards away. Furthermore, those bomb flight times would be relatively short, so even if you did hear the wailing cry of a falling bomb, you would have very little time to react or “run away”. The whistle may have given enough warning to cover could be taken, or you could fall to the ground and cover your head, but that’s about it. The Germans are now using a large number of different containers to carry small incendiary and anti-personnel bombs, and flares. Most recent types are marked "AB" or "ABB" and are meant to open at approximately predetermined heights below the aircraft, according to fuze setting. The initials AB stand for " Abwurf" = a throwing out, " Behälter = a container, which taken together indicate the later types which are released intact from the aircraft; the additional B stands for " Brandbomben" = incendiary bomb, though other than incendiary bombs may now be carried in containers marked ABB. The BdC 10, BSK 36, Mark 500 Boden, Mark 250 BK and Mark 250 LK are. also released from the aircraft. Instead of the usual marking AZ 8312, the plug is stamped AZ 1.3 A or AZ (1.3) A. Specimens of this type have been found painted ​yellow-green all over. The type may also be combined with an explosive charge in the tail end.