ADLERSHOF Ammunition B

franzkait · 2 March 2006, 04:38 PM

any info ?

rammjaeger · 3 March 2006, 12:33 AM

If you can get the German "Beobachterhandbuch" of WWI then you can expect also descriptions of the used Signalmittel.

rammjaeger · 3 March 2006, 12:38 AM

These guys could know more too:

http://www.munitionsmuseum.de/

BTW another example of German bureaucracy preventing useful private initiatives is given in the text there.

jeroen · 4 March 2006, 07:06 AM

It looks to me that every single piece of ammunition was hit, look at the bulletholes pierced in them, some test to see what happened after direct hits?

Marco_Sommerau · 7 March 2006, 06:23 AM

These are flares of the Eisfeld “cannonless” flare gun which was developed in 1918-19 but never officially adopted by the military aviation during the war (as far as I know). As Jeroen says, it seems that the Flugzeugmeisterei tested the flares reaction to gunfire to detect if these could explode or burn if hit.

franzkait · 8 March 2006, 05:36 PM

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rammjaeger · 8 March 2006, 11:06 PM

Sieht aus wie einfaches Querschnittmodell einer der obigen Signalpatronen.

Mehr zur Geschichte von Eisfeld unter:

http://www.firework.de/info/

Silberhütte anklicken. Vielleicht gibts ja ein Heft zur Firmengeschichte oder noch Dokumente aus alten Zeiten dort.