The ceiling caught fire, but the audience initially thought it was part of the show. During the concert, a member of the audience fired a flare gun inside the venue. Meanwhile, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were playing a concert inside the casino theater, as part of the Montreux jazz festival. The most famous use of a flare gun is immortalized in the song, Smoke on the Water, by the British hard rock band, Deep Purple. Many people, even those that never listen to hard-rock or heavy metal music, will instantly recognize the opening guitar riff of this song, even if they don't know the title of the song. The story behind the song is this: the members of Deep Purple were in Montreux, Switzerland, trying to record a new album at an entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux casino. When the USS Borie was hunting for the German submarine, U-405, they rammed into each other and hand-to-hand fighting ensued, where at least one of the crew of the U-405 was hit in the chest by a Very flare fired by the crew of the USS Borie. Jeffries, who didn't have a normal firearm and hence grabbed the nearest thing available, which was a Very pistol. In World War II, a German pilot, Oberleutnant Arnim Faber, accidentally landed in an airfield in Wales and was captured by the duty pilot, Sgt. While flare guns are not designed to be a weapon, there have been instances where they've been used in that role. By firing sequences of pre-arranged colored flares, aircraft and ground forces could identify each other's positions and send specific signals.įlare guns aren't made as strongly as normal firearms, so it is extremely unwise to try shooting a normal 12-gauge shotgun cartridge out of a flare gun, as the flare gun is likely to explode in the user's hands. During World War I and II, flare guns were also used in situations where radio silence was important.
Distress flares are typically shot straight up in the air, for maximum visibility time of the flare and also to show where the person in trouble is. The flares come in three colors, red, green and "white star", and have a burn time of anywhere between 5 to 10 seconds, depending on flare type. Ubriaco (c) 2004, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
0 kommentar(er)
