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singing missiles ;-)
Oct 21st, 2005, 12:53pm
 
okay someone out there should be able to do this.
 
Lots of cultures have produced whistling and trilling arrows, so why not a whistling sling bullet ?  
Got the idea when an irregular shaped stone I slung last night whizzed away making a trilling noise.  
 
Bear in mind that gland shaped missiles spin, so  the holes could be either on the front on on the sides (bit like scoops - quick thought, drill hole partway through gland add side scoops and you've got a primitive jet engine :-)
 
Anyway that's the project folks - make a singing missile :-)  
Oh yeah and paint it flourescent yellow so you can use it more than once :-)
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Reply #1 - Oct 21st, 2005, 1:04pm
 
The Japanese had a Dragon arrow, that had a hollow ball at the end of an arrow shaft. There were 3 holes drilled into it, making the whistling sounds. Modern repros can get to 90 decibels.
   Perhaps a hollow ball like the end of the arrow?? ???
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Reply #2 - Oct 23rd, 2005, 2:59pm
 
I've been slinging nails, works really good if they are straight.
They make whistling sounds, even if they don't spin.
 
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Reply #3 - Oct 24th, 2005, 10:36pm
 
I think I could make a prototype out of clay.
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Reply #4 - Nov 2nd, 2005, 3:12pm
 
If you don’t want to sling nails or stones with holes, an excellent choice would be nuts. Not the kind of nuts that you eat, but the kind of nuts that you find on mechanical things, like a tractor, car or whatever. Don’t ruin your cars of that reason.
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Reply #5 - Nov 2nd, 2005, 3:24pm
 
The sling possesses the potential energy to cast a very loud and awesomely alarming 'turbine whistle' glans....
 
 
Such that it's trajectory, should it pass over one's head....may incite the subject to start believing in UFO's....
 
 
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Reply #6 - Nov 2nd, 2005, 3:34pm
 
At which point they would be passed off by law enforcement officials as "raving lunatics" and they'd never know of our dastardly plan!  
MUAHAHAHAHA!!
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Reply #7 - Nov 2nd, 2005, 3:47pm
 
Oh...so now it's 'our' plan.......
 
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lol
 
 
 
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Reply #8 - Nov 2nd, 2005, 4:31pm
 
if you sling a flat wide rock with side arm it will make a cool sound like....uh..  
fugggkaaaaaaazzzzzzz......boom
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Reply #9 - Nov 2nd, 2005, 4:49pm
 
The central hole in lead egg sinker glandes whistles a bit.  I think a transverse hole would whistle more.
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Reply #10 - Nov 2nd, 2005, 10:33pm
 
Wait, so what do I do? Do I put three holes or four and where? Set up like a plus sign, a "T" or equally split? I wanna make some sand glands like this...
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Reply #11 - Nov 3rd, 2005, 1:38pm
 
MammotHunter here. I was thinking I could make a football or lozenge shaped projectile with holes punched in at an oblique angle with a nail. so that as it spins, the holes catch the air at such an angle that the air flow differential is different for both sides of the projectile, which should make a high pitched "screaming" sound. I'll make it up tonight, and let you all know how it goes when I test it out.
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