History Main / StukaScream

* Used in DmitryPuchkov's {{Gag Dub}}s of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films, most often during the appearances of the Nazgûl on their flying beasts, replacing the ear-splitting screech. The dubbed dialogue specifically calls them "Messers" (i.e. Messerschmidts). Also appears in the scene with Gandalf and Balrog falling (the one where they first appear falling in a giant cavern with a lake).

* In ''MysteryScienceTheater3000: The Movie'', right after Dr Meachem's flight to meet Exeter takes off, Tom Servo verbally copies this sound effect to make it sound like the plane is stalling and crashing just off-screen.
* In ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', this shows up ''twice'' - once when Doctor Scott's wheelchair rolls down a slope in the lab, and once to the falling "Radio Tower" as it plummets to earth along with [[spoiler:the corpses of Rocky and Frankenfurter]].

* Can be heard in the 1995 Richard Loncraine film just before UsefulNotes/RichardIII's command train is attacked by Lord Stanley's air force. Given the AnachronismStew of weapons and vehicles in this movie (set in a fascist 1930's Britain) it wouldn't be unusual if a Stuka was used, though it turns out to be a twin-engined bomber.

* The opening track of PinkFloyd's ''The Wall'', "In the Flesh", ends with a Stuka scream to symbolise the death of Pink's father in the war. [[TheMovie The film of the album]] actually depicts the moment of his death as a Stuka dives on his position, complete with BombWhistle.

* In the book ''Flak'' by Michael Veitch, an Australian WW2 pilot in training buzzed his own house so low [[OhCrap he could see a member of the Observer Corp taking down his aircraft number.]] To avoid a court martial he had to land his aircraft, race back home, sneak into the OC hut while it was unmanned and steal the log entry.

* The American SBD "Dauntless" dive bomber managed to achieve a similar effect using its perforated dive brakes. The holes in the dive brakes, included for aerodynamic reasons, had the side effect of giving the plane a reportedly banshee-like wail sound in a dive, likely leading to its US Army designation: The A-24 "Banshee".

* ''And'' in the ActionPrologue of ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}'', when Bond can't pull a plane out of a dive.

* ''And'' in the ActionPrologue Film/{{GoldenEye}}, when Bond can't pull a plane out of a dive.

-->-- '''Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians''' by Odon

In media, when something - usually a plane, but it can be something else - is diving, crashing or otherwise swooping, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJV_PITRjA a gradually-rising mechanical scream]] that climaxes in a shrieking crescendo is often applied as a sound effect. This StockSoundEffect originates from a siren (named ''Jericho-Trompete'', or [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Jericho Trumpet"]]), which was fitted to [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German Ju-87 "Stuka" dive-bombers]] in the UsefulNotes/SecondWorldWar as a psychological terror weapon designed to inflict panic on enemy ground forces.

* The American SBD "Dauntless" divebomber, meanwhile, managed to get a similar effect using its perforated dive brakes. The holes in the dive brakes, included for aerodynamic reasons, had the side effect of giving the plane a reportedly banshee-like wail sound in a dive[[note]] Probably leading to its US Army designation: The A-24 "Banshee".[[/note]]

In media, when something - usually a plane, but it can be something else - is diving, crashing or otherwise swooping, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJV_PITRjA a gradually-rising mechanical scream]] that climaxes in a shrieking crescendo is often applied as a sound effect. This StockSoundEffect originates from a siren (named ''Jericho-Trompete'', or [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Jericho Trumpet"]]), which was fitted to [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German Ju-87 "Stuka" dive-bombers]] in the SecondWorldWar as a psychological terror weapon designed to inflict panic on enemy ground forces.

A staple of SecondWorldWar films, it is by no means restricted to them and can be used in conjunction with anything from a crashing civilian airliner to a wheelchair rolling down a slope at high speed.

* Can be heard in the 1995 Richard Loncraine film just before RichardIII's command train is attacked by Lord Stanley's air force. Given the AnachronismStew of weapons and vehicles in this movie (set in a fascist 1930's Britain) it wouldn't be unusual if a Stuka was used, though it turns out to be a twin-engined bomber.

* ''TheGunsOfNavarone''. While the protagonists are fleeing along a dry river bed they're attacked by Stuka dive bombers, with the standard sound effect.

* Used in DmitryPuchkov's {{Gag Dub}}s of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films, most often during the appearances of the Nazgul on their flying beasts, replacing the ear-splitting screech. The dubbed dialogue specifically calls them "Messers" (i.e. Messerschmidts). Also appears in the scene with Gandalf and Balrog falling (the one where they first appear falling in a giant cavern with a lake).

* In the Ian [=McKellen=] movie, can be heard in the moment before RichardIII's command train is attacked by Lord Stanley's air force. Given the AnachronismStew of weapons and vehicles in this movie (set in a fascist 1930's Britain) it wouldn't be unusual if a Stuka was used, though it turns out to be a twin-engined bomber.

* In the Ian [=McKellen=] movie, can be in the instant before RichardIII's command train is attacked by Lord Stanley's air force. Given the AnachronismStew of weapons and vehicles in this movie (set in a fascist 1930's Britain) it wouldn't be unusual if a Stuka was used, though it turns out to be a twin-engined bomber.

* In the Ian McKellen movie, can be in the instant before RichardIII's command train is attacked by Lord Stanley's air force. Given the AnachronismStew of weapons and vehicles in this movie (set in a fascist 1930's Britain) it wouldn't be unusual if a Stuka was used, though it turns out to be a twin-engined bomber.

* ''TheGunsOfNavarone''. While the protagonists are fleeing along a dry river bed they're attacked by Stuka dive bombers, with the standard sound effect. The scene also has a BombWhistle each time a Stuka drops its bombs.