N201MKTurbo Posted December 14, 2018 Report Posted December 14, 2018 I’m watching a very old airplane movie. Flight Commander, 1930, WWI biplanes. Strange how France looks like the hills around San Diego. Anyway, I noticed the planes almost all had a scarf tied to one of the wing struts. I have flown quite of few planes that had a yaw string taped to the windshield, saillanes, twins and old military jets. By tying a scarf to the strut, you would get a yaw indication, but you would also get an angle of attack indication. I wonder if that is what they were used for instead af an airspeed indication? Maybe these guys were ahead of their times? 1 Quote
bob865 Posted December 14, 2018 Report Posted December 14, 2018 If I remember right, weren't they used for plane identification? So you could spot you wing leader easily? That could just be hollywood's explaination and I'm remembering it from a movie. Quote
N201MKTurbo Posted December 14, 2018 Author Report Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) 21 minutes ago, bob865 said: If I remember right, weren't they used for plane identification? So you could spot you wing leader easily? That could just be hollywood's explaination and I'm remembering it from a movie. You may be right. After I wrote that I rolled back the movie and there was only one plane in the squadron that had the streamer. http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32632 Edited December 14, 2018 by N201MKTurbo Quote
rbridges Posted December 14, 2018 Report Posted December 14, 2018 We're they regular scarves or a PMA/TSO scarf? 1 1 Quote
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