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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Guyver on July 25, 2006, 06:30:06 PM
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is it just me or is the sound of a prop aircraft the best sound ever?? i love the sound of a spitfire. i think it the best sound ever. and love to listen to it.
what do you all think??
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The Napier Sabre in the Tempest has to be one of the smoothest sounding engines of the WW2 prop jobs.
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We have authentic Avengers flying around Fredericton coming in to land after being used to spray for spruce budworm for the province. What a powerful sound! When they come in low I stop the car, and just listen.
BTW the Province of New Brunswick (Canada) is trying to sell those birds. They are kept in top shape, and they will paint them in their original paint jobs and reinstall the original canopies for anyone who has the loot. I didn't dare ask the cost, but there haven't been too many takers by the looks of it.
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I can think of other sounds I like better...
but I dont think Hightech or Skuzzy would appreciate me saying what they are here
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
I can think of other sounds I like better...
but I dont think Hightech or Skuzzy would appreciate me saying what they are here
Well you could use that bleeting sheep sound instead.
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i watched a programme the other day on spitfire 9 apparently u can get one for around $600,000. wish i was rich id have one.
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My old landlords friend in england is an art dealer and he owns his own dang spitfire, lucky $#@$#$ i dont even think he can fly the dang thing, but it is a true work of art.
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Originally posted by The Fury
i watched a programme the other day on spitfire 9 apparently u can get one for around $600,000. wish i was rich id have one.
That sounds pretty cheap for a Spit, sure it's not pounds? An average
P-51 on this side of the pond sells for about $1.3 million.
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Originally posted by Rino
That sounds pretty cheap for a Spit, sure it's not pounds? An average
P-51 on this side of the pond sells for about $1.3 million.
Last Spit I saw for sale was a Spitfire V and that had an asking price of 3 mil completely restored. Granted the Spit V is a bit more rare. Guessing 2 mil for a Spit IX at least.
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any radial engine noise gets my arse out the door, scanning the skies ..
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I think the Su-27 with afterburn on is the winner :D
Ah, those prop thingys... Hmmm, Me109 maybe.
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Last airshow here Gunslinger was in the ww2 line up, my god that thing sounds like it was tearing ***, none the less I love the sound of that plane, had to tell friend to quote {shut up!} so I could pay attention, geez I thought I was the only one in the world that walked around looking into the sky whenever a plane goes over..lol:D
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Originally posted by Xjazz
I think the Su-27 with afterburn on is the winner :D
Ah, those prop thingys... Hmmm, Me109 maybe.
seen too many jet's in my time. spec as my dad worked for BAe and build tornadoes ect. he even helped build the prototype and the finished eurofighter.
props just do something to me when i hear them.
i wish i had the money for a spit. then some cash left over for so i could learn to fly it.
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Personally I love the sound of the mustang engine whilst doing a dive at speed
The sound of the supercharger makes a sweet whistling noise!!!
Bruv
~S~
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Every once in a while I'll hear a "big Block" flying nearby.
Usually, it's a DC 3....still nice to see an old aircraft up.
'bout once every 2 or 3 years, the Canadian Warplane Museums' Lancaster will toodle overhead. Now that's real nice.
10 years ago, it was circling our farm....a cemetary was nearby...vet was being interned, they hired it out for a fly-by 2 hour personal airshow...
Anyway, around the same time, they were filming a commercial spot on our driveway (long distance phone commercial, hockey scout in Russia, our driveway is 1/2 km long, and there's a Ukranian Catholic church across the road they were using as backdrop), and my roomies old man (who's German) comes by thinking that this was part of the commercial.
"So is this the commercial they're shooting?" he asks.
"No. They're not getting in here till Monday or Tuesday" I say.
"Oh," he says. "I thought the bomber was part of it. It's been a while since I've seen one of those"
"Oh yeah? When was the last time?" I ask
"When I was living outside Dresden; back in 1945. They were flying over us all day."
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I once heard something special fly overhead on day with low fog. I went and scanned the local airports later that day wondering what I'd find. Then I found a P-51 parked. No one was around, but I know that is what I heard.
I've also heard a B-25 fly over at low alt. The air was so thick with the reverberations of it's power you could feel it beat on your chest.
Beech-18's have brought me running out of my house to see just what it was, also. They got the juju too.
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yeah pounds i meant :D
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A c47 flew over my house on Father day. Shoulda heard it, unmistakable. Shoulda heard me too... "GOON, GOON, GOON!!" Whilst running in to grab my camera; "Where's my f@#king camera".
Got the camera too late, all I have is a very distant shot of the bird.
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I live right under the approach for KWVI, Watsonville, CA. There's a couple of WWII era planes stationed here and it's a popular stop for them as well. At least once a week I'll hear a P-51 or T-6 and run outside to watch it land. Pretty funny playing Aces High and hearing real WWII planes buzzing your house, it can be confusing.
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we have a mosquito plane{c47} that fly's out of the airport at-least twice a month, it sprays the woods to kill pests, my god i wonder what it was like around tyndall in the 40's...
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its like a drug.. a few years back they had an airshow here in chattanooga WWII vintage aircraft all over the sky.. I had to work that night... man it was a long night with no sleep that day :)
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The two best sounds ive hear were a F4U1-D fire up and taxi past me about 40ft away at a local airshow in Geneso Ny . The other was seeing Porky , A P38-J fire up and take off for a performance in dayton . Talk about a chubby :D
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My favorite has to be the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine.
I was about two hundred yards from a P-47D-40 idling near a hangar at Hooks airport (just a few miles from my house)... That was the loudest thing I've ever heard (and I had the windows on my car rolled up!).
And a month or two ago while I was riding my bike, a P-47 flew overhead. I might've been the same one, though I'm not too sure. It's kind of difficult to make out a paintjob on a plane that's 2,000 feet up in the air. :P
Anyway, the one that flew overhead was running at about 70% throttle. The "hum" of the R-2800 was very noticeable, though it was still nothing compared to what it could be on full throttle (it was a low-frequency hum rather than a scream).
And a few years ago at Hooks airport, I was very close to a TBM-3 Avenger (I actually touched it a few times). It gave me a bit of a scare when the guy who was maintaining it decided to start it up, seeing as I was only about twenty feet away from it. The engine had the same sound as the P-47's, though it wasn't quite as chunky.
Yeah, I like piston-engined aircraft, too. :P
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me personally...
i love the sound of the la5 spooling up.....or the p47 d
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Kinda scarey to know 38ruk got a chub at Dayton I think I was stood close to him !!!!!
I will never forget during my time in the RAF doing support for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, it was a thrill to hear those aircraft so close.
Please Please 38 edit your post maybe just say you were happy or something !!!
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Originally posted by xbrit
Kinda scarey to know 38ruk got a chub at Dayton I think I was stood close to him !!!!!
I will never forget during my time in the RAF doing support for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, it was a thrill to hear those aircraft so close.
Please Please 38 edit your post maybe just say you were happy or something !!!
my bro new a few guys from the bob memorial flight. i think he used to do some safty equipment stuff for them. seen them fly alot of times. sounds great when they come over.
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We used to transport equipment for them and once unloaded normally gave our own C-130 demo this was a fun way to get rid of any sinus problems you had.
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Xbrti wasnt your wife in dayton with ya hehehe, I was happy !:D
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Originally posted by Fruda
....And a month or two ago while I was riding my bike, a P-47 flew overhead. I might've been the same one, though I'm not too sure. It's kind of difficult to make out a paintjob on a plane that's 2,000 feet up in the air. :P...
"Alt-I" should bring up the icons for you. . . . ;)
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Come to Reno, crash on my couch, and listen to Rare Bear or Dago Red slingshot past you at 450 knots--its a toss up between the roar of the radial or the hum of the Merlin. Either way, incredible... (Not to mention there's about 15 other warbirds flying. Last year we had a F7F in the races. So, go Pratt & Whitney times 2.)
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stand next to an F16 in full afterburner and grab a hold of the horizontal stab...u will feel what real power is....awesome awesome experience....love props too though
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sin the b1b lancer fly over at airshows a few times. talk about loud. car alarms going off and my ribcage rattleing to the sound. that is awsome to hear.
the one jet i would love to see fly is the vulcan bomber. my bro and rest of family have seen it as my bro did some stuff for them. they where put of service when i was going to shows and round bases with my bro though :(
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Originally posted by jaxxo
stand next to an F16 in full afterburner and grab a hold of the horizontal stab...u will feel what real power is....awesome awesome experience....love props too though
Well dang Jaxxo, that's a little unfair comparison, huh? :) I was trying to restrict it to something with cylinders...
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13 years on the USAF flight line ..
..4th TFW F4 Phantom 4-ships at the EOR startin take-off roll a couple hundred feet away, SJAFB .. as 'Mouse' said 'lotta sound an fury'
..the B1-b flown by Col Olin(retired) on his first checkride, he came down the runway with the intakes of that bird just a few feet off the pavement, pitched out, slammed into AB, and rolled hard right into the pattern..directly over where I was standin .. plant 42, Palmdale CA, at the Eaton/AIL maintenance hanger ..good times, awesome sounds.
3-ship B-52G launch durin an ORI at Castle.. not a cloud anywhere but I'm purty sure the surrounding country side thought a major storm was happenin by the sound of it ;) I was half a mile from rotation point, watchin from the ECM shop door.
scary sounds.. Thai T-28J loaded for bear (250lbrs in the wing racks) ..engine in full throat roar on takeoff and just past our shop at ~200 feet up it starts poppin an burbles ..coughs ..and quits cold.
All of us heard the crash out in the jungle beyond the base.. Udorn-Thani RTAFB.. April, '75 ..during the fall of Saigon.
F-105g wild weasel on takeoff roll .. throttle cut, chute pops, tires squeal an smoke as she nears end of runway.. the big jet tears through the EOR fence and starts raisin a dust cloud behind it ..the gear seperate and I saw one main flyin, twirlin, breifly above the dust cloud. George AFB, late '70's.
There were no easy days on the line.
I love the sound of all of 'em, piston or jet .. except the Tweety bird .. that is just plain annoying as hell. T-37, tip tanks, rockets, lookin like an Austin Healy taxiing out behind the much bigger F-4's at Udorn-Thani RTAFB.
-GE
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Originally posted by jaxxo
stand next to an F16 in full afterburner and grab a hold of the horizontal stab...u will feel what real power is....awesome awesome experience....love props too though
Damn near did that today, about ohhhhh 500 yards from Buckley AFB playing paintball. Seemed like the thing spooled up forever, then it was gone.
Anything with some power will usually get my ears perked up, usually just jets flying around here though, get some C-130's every so often, that's about it.
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Originally posted by g00b
I live right under the approach for KWVI, Watsonville, CA. There's a couple of WWII era planes stationed here and it's a popular stop for them as well. At least once a week I'll hear a P-51 or T-6 and run outside to watch it land. Pretty funny playing Aces High and hearing real WWII planes buzzing your house, it can be confusing.
g00b, I live just a few miles up hwy1 from you. I go to the Watsonville fly in every year. PM me if ya want to meet up.
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I live right in the approach for the airport in Arlington, WA. Paul Allen has his aircraft museum http://www.flyingheritage.com/ (http://Flying heritage Museum) there. I was up checking my satilite dish the other day when a P-47 buzzed overhead. I about fell off the house! Gawd it was purdy! Took a couple of pics at the airport of it. :D
(http://static.flickr.com/62/201587072_80b28e2468.jpg)