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Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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A friend did the "Africa-dirt-strip-DC3-20+day-safari"
It was a trip to remember. He had worked @McD as a toolmaker during the era that DC3 was built, and it was a special treat to spend a few minutes in the cockpit of a bird he had helped build over 65 yrs ago!
My favorite engine sound - The smoothly running engine of any plane I'm on when the only thing I can see outside the window is water!
Agreed. Especially when you've only got one. Every 30 minutes or so the F-16 radar would perform a self-test if it wasn't being used for anything except search... there's a 3-5 second rumble and shudder when it does so as the antenna parks itself and it's a bit disconcerting, but when the air conditioning shuts down momentarily and the cockpit gets quite, it's a serious attention-getter.
I'd make it a toss up between Merlins running who knows how many inches of manifold pressure and R-4360s coming down the front straight at Reno.
The video doesn't do it justice like being there (Phoenix 500 in 94 and 95) but that guttural sound of Rare Bear is like nothing else I've ever heard. Best example ~3:45.
The start of a T53 L13 turbine engine in a Huey. The sequence begins with the crewchief calling CLEAR! Then...the whine of the starter and the clicking of the igniters. There's a soft "whoof" as the gas producer starts to make power. You notice the blades begin to turn. The crescendo increases and finally after about 30 to 40 seconds the the engine is running and the Huey is alive.
God! I love that noise. It's the Sound of Freedom baby!
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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PC-12 start up. Or anything else that uses the PT-6
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