What is a wind cannon?

Like the Vortex Gun, the Wind Cannon was also developed by a factory in Stuttgart during the war. It was a type of gun that would eject a jet of compressed air against enemy aircraft. It was a strange device consisted of a large angled barrel like a bent arm resting in an immense cradle like some enormous broken pea-shooter lying askew.

What is a wind cannon & a vortex gun?

Wind Cannon Like the Vortex Gun, the Wind Cannon was also developed by a factory in Stuttgart during the war. It was a type of gun that would eject a jet of compressed air against enemy aircraft. It consisted of a large angled barrel like a bent arm resting in an immense cradle.

How did the wind cannon work?

Like the Vortex Gun, the Wind Cannon was also developed by a factory in Stuttgart during the war. It was a type of gun that would eject a jet of compressed air against enemy aircraft. It consisted of a large angled barrel like a bent arm resting in an immense cradle. The cannon worked by the ignition of critical mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen.

What would a vortex cannon do?

Such a vortex cannon could break plywood huts and even small brick walls. But it could not affect aircraft flying in the sky. A conventional shot gun would be far more useful. Like the Vortex Gun, the Wind Cannon was also developed by a factory in Stuttgart during the war.

Can you make an air vortex cannon out of plastic?

You can make an air vortex cannon out of any container and stretchy plastic material. What changes can you make to this air cannon design so that it shoots air farther? You can use the Air Vortex Cannon Engineering Worksheet to write down your ideas.

Was the wind cannon a success or a failure?

The wind cannon was an interesting experiment but a practical failure. The first documented occurrence of the development of a weapon using abrupt changes in pressure goes back to the Wunderwaffen, literally “wonder weapons”-the name given by the Ministry of Propaganda to the experimental weapons program of the Third Reich.