stumpjumper 3 Posted August 25, 2009 WORK AND TESITNG CONTINUES Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GRUMPYBEAR 1 Posted August 25, 2009 looks pretty good Stump GB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stumpjumper 3 Posted August 25, 2009 thx gb im trynig to get the best from what lil info there is out ther Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RAF_Louvert 101 Posted August 25, 2009 stumpjumper, I think you've about got it there Sir. The amount and trajectory of those glowing tracer rounds looks nearly perfect to my eyes. Great work, can't wait to give it a try. Cheers! Lou Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted August 25, 2009 (edited) Wow, very nice, stumpjumper! Sorry, I missed the very beginning of this, so: - who used this weapon? - how did it work? - will it cause damage in our sim, if we put it in? Edited August 25, 2009 by Olham Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Von Paulus 8 Posted August 25, 2009 It looks nice stumpjumper. @Olham It was used by Germans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_onion Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Check Six 2 Posted August 25, 2009 Good work SJ. Glad I made the inquiry about Flaming Onions. "Ask and ye shall receive" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red-Dog 3 Posted August 25, 2009 Looking fantastic Stump... will both sides be getting this new wonder weapon? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outfctrl 0 Posted August 25, 2009 I looked it up on Wikipedia because all this is new to me. Very interesting! The flaming onion was a 37 mm revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army during World War I, the name referring to both the gun, and especially the flares it fired. The American 'balloon-buster' ace, Frank Luke, was a prominent victim of this device, and it was mentioned in Eddie Rickenbacker's book Fighting the Flying Circus and in many "Biggles" stories. The term could also be applied to any sort of anti-aircraft fire that used a visible tracer, appearing in reports of combat from the Battle of Taranto, for instance. The actual weapon was a Gatling type, smooth bore, short barreled automatic revolver called a 'lichtspucker' (light spitter) that was designed to fire flares at low velocity in rapid sequence across a battle area. This gun had five barrels and could launch a 37 mm artillery shell about five thousand feet (1500 m). To maximize the chance of a strike, all five rounds were discharged as rapidly as possible, giving the 'string of flaming onions' effect. Because most other rounds were fired slowly due to the nature of anti-aircraft artillery at the time, this gun's rapid rate of fire left many fliers thinking that the rounds were attached to a string and they feared being shredded by it. Because all launchers were located well behind the lines, none were captured until the last days of the war on the Western Front. Because the weapon was not designed for anti-aircraft use, it did not have purpose-designed ammunition, but the flares would have been dangerous to fabric-covered aircraft. It appears that the design of specialist ammunition took place in tandem with design of higher velocity automatic anti-aircraft weapons; which may explain why the standard heavy automatic AA gun used by the Germans in World War II was of 37 mm caliber. The name "flaming onion" was also used for a number of unrelated military topics. One of these was the mythical German device that exploded in such a way that it resembled a bomber being hit,although these also went by a variety of other names, including "scarecrows". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shredward 12 Posted August 26, 2009 Great Stuff Stump! Cheers, shredward Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
