I wondered about sounds that one should expect to hear while playing this game of simulated air combat and then I came across this passage and it made me think again.
"The sounds of war were amplifed by the darkness and seemed to come from all directions at once. I had never heard big guns and exploding shells. My war was only the sound of my engines. I had smelled the gunpowder that seeped into the cockpit, but I never heard my guns fire. On dive-bombing runs I saw the explosions made by the bombs dropped in front of me, I saw the faint shock wave that preceded the explosion but I'd never heard the sound. The mushrooming black and white clouds rising from the target, the flak bursting off my wingtip, tracers from my guns pouring into enemy aircraft, incendiaries and cannon shells finding their marks--all were silent pictures to me. Dismembered segments of planes blown apart in the sky or gracefully pirouetting into the sea. Hundred of silent pictures."
from "Doorknob 52" by Frederic Arnold (who completed 50 combat missions as P-38 pilot with 7 confirmed kills in North Africa)
[This message has been edited by JimBear (edited 08-06-2000).]
