G’day
Has anyone modelled this curio ?
http://blinkynet.net/stuff/perscar1.jpg
http://www.unrealaircraft.com/qbranch/images/ju87.jpeg
There was a vacuform conversion set for these in 1/72nd scale a long time ago. Think it was from Airmodel. Never saw them in person but their other stuff was ok for vacuform stuff back then.
Never knew it existed, look like an interesting builh though.
That’s funky… it’d be a cool model subject though.
I thought there was another version where they were underslung , giving a more exciting ride. I could , however be confused with the Il2 where passengers rode in the wheel wells [as long as the pilot didn’t raise the wheels
Well, that certainly is a unique modification to the Stuka… shouldn’t be too difficult to scratch… I’m assuming there was a seat/s inside the pods? That’s cool, thanks!
Take care,
Frank
Wow! never seen that animal before. Would certainly be a head-turner, though.
Paul
Maybe those passengers were actually “wounded”. The pods look similar to the litters on the Bell-47 “M.A.S.H.” evacuation helo. [:)]
I believe it was a proposed special ops mod:
http://www.unrealaircraft.com/qbranch/junkers_j87.php
i read or heard somewhere that they put speakers on stukas to amplify the sound they make when they dive. does anyone have pics of that??
Not a speakers, but a siren is attached to one of the landing gear. It’s a little propeller and it howled when diving, scaring the bejesus out of the people below.
I think this sound has since been used in every movie that had an airplane diving (that is a LOT of movies ;)).
THE SIREN WAS CALLED THE TRUMPETS OF JERICHO. Presumably relating to the biblical story,
It was also removed later in the war. I guess they felt the siren served more as an air raid siren that a psyops weapon. As soon as the guy pushed over into his dive, you had time to run for cover.
Tom
P38’s were also fitted with passenger carrying pods. There was a trial using modified drop tanks for carrying wounded personnel, which was not adopted, but one which did go into combat was a special pod used by David Douglas Duncan for taking battlefield photographs from the port underwing position. There are a couple of pics in “Classic WWI Aviation Vol 7 - Lockheed P38 Lightning”