ThirstyBarbarian
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I bought one of these Nerf Vortex Howler Accelerator toys at target.
The little football dart thingy has whistles in it that whistle when it is thrown. Im thinking about putting a bunch of these in a rocket and having them rain down from above, like a load of whistling bombs.
I took the thing to the park and threw it around a few times to see how it works. It whistles pretty well! And if you throw it straight up, it goes silent as it slows toward apogee, but it picks up enough speed after apogee to whistle as it falls. It really doesnt have to be going fast at all to make a pretty good sound.
I got this one at Target for about 13 bucks for the toy and the two accelerators, which are not necessary. Nerf doesnt seem to sell just the football thing in this size on its own. But I found what looks to be the same thing at Oriental Trading Company for under $5. At that price, I can afford a pretty good bomb payload! https://www.orientaltrading.com/whistling-missile-football-a2-13686081.fltr
Im thinking about doing some experiments with a small BT80 payload bay, dropping a single nerf bomb. If it works, Im thinking of adding a payload section to my Warlock for the purposes of dropping a dozen whistling nerf bombs (or an entire platoon of monkey paratroops).
Also, this nerf howler whistle might be just the thing for whistling rockets. I know a few people have experimented with adding different types of whistles to rockets, with little success. Those whistles were mostly designed to be blown through, so it wasnt possible to make a modification to ram air into the mouth of the whistle and have it work. But these nerf howler whistles are designed to work with air passing over the whistle opening, not blowing into the whistle. It seems like it would work if mounted on a rocket. I may need to dig a few of these whistles out of their footballs and try attaching them to a rocket.
The little football dart thingy has whistles in it that whistle when it is thrown. Im thinking about putting a bunch of these in a rocket and having them rain down from above, like a load of whistling bombs.
I took the thing to the park and threw it around a few times to see how it works. It whistles pretty well! And if you throw it straight up, it goes silent as it slows toward apogee, but it picks up enough speed after apogee to whistle as it falls. It really doesnt have to be going fast at all to make a pretty good sound.
I got this one at Target for about 13 bucks for the toy and the two accelerators, which are not necessary. Nerf doesnt seem to sell just the football thing in this size on its own. But I found what looks to be the same thing at Oriental Trading Company for under $5. At that price, I can afford a pretty good bomb payload! https://www.orientaltrading.com/whistling-missile-football-a2-13686081.fltr
Im thinking about doing some experiments with a small BT80 payload bay, dropping a single nerf bomb. If it works, Im thinking of adding a payload section to my Warlock for the purposes of dropping a dozen whistling nerf bombs (or an entire platoon of monkey paratroops).
Also, this nerf howler whistle might be just the thing for whistling rockets. I know a few people have experimented with adding different types of whistles to rockets, with little success. Those whistles were mostly designed to be blown through, so it wasnt possible to make a modification to ram air into the mouth of the whistle and have it work. But these nerf howler whistles are designed to work with air passing over the whistle opening, not blowing into the whistle. It seems like it would work if mounted on a rocket. I may need to dig a few of these whistles out of their footballs and try attaching them to a rocket.
