What are these things?
- posted
12 years ago
What are these things?
Seems to me I did a similar figure and the instructrions called them flares. Next question - what does he do with them?
Val Kraut
Different rounds, to be sure.
he's carrying an awful lot of flares!
Regards
Syke
Yes. An Me 109 in particular has a port in the cockpit for firing flares while airborne. Brief treatise here, scroll down:
Anyway, quite a few Luftwaffe aircraft (and not just fighters) had flare ports for being able to fire flares from a flare pistol while airborne.
You missed the most important one: Visual IFF "firing the colours of the day".
Did it need a flare pistol or did they just shove the flare into the port and set it off? I can see arguments for either way.
Yup...one more!
They used a pistol like this one -
...and an actual cartridge belt and spent carts -
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