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Check out what I got to hear get cranked over today.

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I'm sure when the starter is done doing it's thing, all of your sensory nerves go on hold...especially in a partially enclosed building.
 
Hi Doug - yeah, it definitely will keep you awake. Hearing one lumber, and that is the right term, into firing is really neat. Very different from a radial engine.
 
sail said:
whaisit?
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P51 - the original MUSTANG!

My dad's dream machine!

Merlin engine, I believe...
 
Sounds like...

THIS!

(Second one down)
 
The closest I have been to a Merlin engine is back in the day when the National Tractor Pull Championships were held in Freedom Hall at the Fairgrounds. In one of the modified classes the pullers used to use surplus Merlin, Rolls Royce and Allison V-12s and put them on an old tractor chassis. I guess they were relatively cheap at the time (1970s. These things were wild! The sound of one of those at full song in the arena was awesome. They eventually were replaced by the blown multi-engine rigs like you see today.

Maybe that's where the seeds were planted for my affinity for TRactors.
 
Well I'll tell you what, there is definitely an affinity for these war bird owners and LBCs.

I saw a early MGB, early E-Type and a TR6 out at the air field today. Very cool, but kind of hard to get motivated to grab pictures of those after the P-51. LOL.
 
Yeah, the Mustang does have a distinct starting sound. A big difference between the early engine and the later engine also.

BUT, the sound that to me will always be distinctive and stay in my memory in capital tones is the MATRA V-12. Starting and accelerating. Nothing else in the world sounds like it..
 
Years ago, a bunch of college friends and I flew down to Harlingen TX to the (then)Confederate Air Force air show.
The climax of the show was their B-29 in the air with a cover of at least 7 P51's. You felt it more than you heard it.

Can't go wrong with 4 big rounds and a gaggle of Allison's

I know where there are 4 R4360's still in the crate. Now there's an engine to put in a wedge! :laugh:
 
I'm with you, Skip: there's nothing like the sound of that RR engine winding up!

I heard a Supermarine Spitfire engine at the Nat'l Triumph Register meeting in Richmond a few years ago. They hired a pilot to do a fly-in at the show, held at the RIC airport.

Hair-raising sound, that. Pure energy and raw power, truly an awesome auditory experience. What a thrill it must be to fly one of those ships, Mustang or Spitfire (especially if the enemy is trying to shoot you down)!

I can still hear it . . .
 
My dad was a turret gunner in a B-17 during the war. One time we were working in the garage when we heard a loud rumbling from airplane engines. He looked up and said "That's a B-17!". We ran out and sure enough there was a B-17G flying over. Found out that there was going to be a War Birds meet at Hanscom Air Force base. He shook his head and said "That's a sound you can never forget." He flew 35 missions and was shot down 3 times.
 
A few years back, there was a flyover of Jimmy Doolittle's home in Carmel originating here in Fresno.

I think there where about 6 or 8 B-25s. We were able to get up close and personal with the planes, even climbing inside one of them.

I was able to get to the end of the runway in time for the take off, something about the sound of those planes at full power just a couple hundred feet above you makes your hair rise up.

Mitchell B-25
 
Two or three years ago at a Galveston show, I had the extreme privilege and honor of meeting Richard Cole, co-pilot in Jimmy Doolittle's plane. And next to him was Dutch Van Kirk, navigator of the Enola Gay. The planes and associated sounds were great, but I still can't get over the awe of meeting the unassuming men tucked away in a little hanger, chatting and signing mementos.
 
gsalt57tr3 said:
the sound of those planes at full power just a couple hundred feet above you makes your hair rise up.
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That's a perfect description, To hear just one B-17 with those four Wright R-1820 Cyclone engines is amazing, I can't imagine what a whole formation must have been sounded like.

Here's a link to a pic my dad's of a P-51D fighter escort that he took later in the war. What the bomber crews called their 'Little Freinds'.

P-51D Fighter Escorts
 
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