[mythtv-users] Aircraft Sounds, was: Coax splitters - how painful are they?

[Scott Sharkey]

Brian Wood wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>> On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>>>> Pretty neat actually; some guy with a Baron just
>>>> loves to bury the throttles. IMO, a beautiful sound.
>>>>
>>>  	Not quite as sweet a sound as a big radial Pratt & Whitney...
>> When I lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the Yankee Air Force Museum's  
>> B-17G used to fly low over my apartment on its way towards Willow Run  
>> Airport.  The sound was wonderful and instantly recognizable.  The  
>> best kind of airplane noise. :)
> 
> I once got a 3 hour ride in "Sentimental Journey". This was at an
> airshow in Colorado in the early '80s. Chuck Yeager was there (in a
> wheelchair, kind of a step down from the X-1).
> 
> But those radials still don't have the sound of the Merlins. My Dad flew
> P-51s, but hadn't heard or seen one since 1946. When one flew in to our
> local airport in 1986 my Mom said he was up and out of bed standing in
> the backyard in his underwear yelling "where is it? I know that sound!"

This weekend in Columbus, Ohio was the "Gathering of Mustang Legends" 
airshow, and there were over 100 P-51's at the show, as well as 2 
P-38's, 2 P-47's, a KingCobra (P-63), B-25's, B-17's, and a British 
Lancaster bomber, plus jet's galore.  They put up 25 P-51's on Saturday
and 20 on Sunday.  OH my god!

I was in heaven, and you absolutely cannot believe what an F-22 Raptor 
can do unless you see it.  I can't even begin to describe...

-Scott