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Gord Beaman wrote in message
... Well...I hate to be a stick-in-the-mud but I just cannot see how this could be authentic. Please tell me how they managed to filter out the sound of 4 merlin engines at full power?. This guy is apparently talking all through the take-off run in a barely above conversational tone of voice. This just cannot happen, not on a Lancaster. There's so much noise on takeoff that nobody uses intercom then. The Pilots and Flight Engineer uses hand signals to indicate orders to vary power and to raise the gear etc. Sorry, I think it's faked. -- -Gord. Not to mention the quality of the carbon microphones that must have been used back then. It sounds like a professional reenactment or a training tape. Not the slightest hint of engine noise and the voices sound clearer and cleaner than through a modern intercom system. Sounds fake to me. -- Scott -------- "So far, fewer troops have been killed by hostile fire since the end of major combat in Iraq than civilians were murdered in Washington, D.C., last year (239 deaths in Iraq compared to 262 murders in D.C.). How many years has it been since we declared the end of major U.S. combat operations against Marion Barry's regime? How long before we just give up and pull out of that hellish quagmire known as Washington, D.C.?" Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/110503.htm |
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"tscottme" wrote:
Gord Beaman wrote in message .. . Well...I hate to be a stick-in-the-mud but I just cannot see how this could be authentic. Please tell me how they managed to filter out the sound of 4 merlin engines at full power?. This guy is apparently talking all through the take-off run in a barely above conversational tone of voice. This just cannot happen, not on a Lancaster. There's so much noise on takeoff that nobody uses intercom then. The Pilots and Flight Engineer uses hand signals to indicate orders to vary power and to raise the gear etc. Sorry, I think it's faked. -- -Gord. Not to mention the quality of the carbon microphones that must have been used back then. It sounds like a professional reenactment or a training tape. Not the slightest hint of engine noise and the voices sound clearer and cleaner than through a modern intercom system. Sounds fake to me. Quite true, we did use carbon mics (at least in peacetime Lancasters - early fifties). They were type T-17, for pic see: http://members.aol.com/tcsopr/t17mic.htm -- -Gord. |
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"Gord Beaman" wrote in message ... "tscottme" wrote: Gord Beaman wrote in message .. . Well...I hate to be a stick-in-the-mud but I just cannot see how this could be authentic. Please tell me how they managed to filter out the sound of 4 merlin engines at full power?. This guy is apparently talking all through the take-off run in a barely above conversational tone of voice. This just cannot happen, not on a Lancaster. There's so much noise on takeoff that nobody uses intercom then. The Pilots and Flight Engineer uses hand signals to indicate orders to vary power and to raise the gear etc. Sorry, I think it's faked. -- -Gord. Not to mention the quality of the carbon microphones that must have been used back then. It sounds like a professional reenactment or a training tape. Not the slightest hint of engine noise and the voices sound clearer and cleaner than through a modern intercom system. Sounds fake to me. Quite true, we did use carbon mics (at least in peacetime Lancasters - early fifties). They were type T-17, for pic see: http://members.aol.com/tcsopr/t17mic.htm -- -Gord. Very clever. A combination microphone showerhead. Perfect for those flyboys who like to sing in the shower. |
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