I love the sound of a P-51 a bit more.
Wow, you could have a lot of fun with that recording in German retirement homes.
The old joke: What’s the propellers for? To keep the pilots cool. Watch them sweat when a prop stops.
As kids, we found that putting a mike behind a fan created the same sound. We would record an adventure, using the sound, and just by snapping the fan frame it would sound like flak. Facing the fan and talking into the mike sounded like getting the message over the radio. After discovering that, we discovered the jet engine, it was made with a Hoover. We modified the sound with a wooden barrel and we had take offs and landings. Imagination and creativity as kids, where did it go?
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Too bad there isn’t one for a Boeing 314 Clipper or a Super Constellation!
When I was in the Air Force as a comm tech, they used to run 13, 16, and 22 channels of teletype (60-100 Baud) multiplexed together and shot out over a voice channel over some comm link (long haul multi-hop HF, VHF, UHF, and MW.
As they were staggered in frequency up conversion and multiplexed together to be sent out over a 3kHz voice channel, the sound was exactly like a 4 engine propeller airplane - exactly. If you tuned in on HF bands, you’ve likely run across this if you’re old as I am.
I had the opportunity to fly in a B-17 several years ago.
Unbelievably LOUD!! No way to carry on a conversation without yelling.
Definitely worked aboard a P-3. Not so much a P-2, as there usually was something wrong with one of the engines.
My late uncle flew the B-17 during World War II.
As a college student in Los Angeles MANY years, ago, I lived in an apartment not far from LAX (Los Angeles International Airport).
In the middle of the night, they sometimes did repair and maintenance work on the jetliners, and they frequently had the engines running for a period of time. That sound of jet engines in the distance would always lull me to sleep.
In the early 60s my dad was stationed at RAF Bruntingthorpe - base housing was single wide trailers with a large room attached. The housing was located right beside the runway. There were a lot of nights when you could hear the aircraft making touch and goes. I loved the sound and slept better on those nights. To this day, I have to have a sound machine on for me to fall asleep.....
Nice recording for sleep - though the flack explosions at 3 am might take some getting used to.
I liked it & thought it very well could be soothing & sleep inducing. There are so many possibilities with other planes(especially P-51s)& various other sounds not related to places. Very clever idea.
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