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Website by LBL
19-8-2008

Sound files

Warning!

Listening to these sound files could have one or more of the following effects:

  • lump in the throat
  • raised neck hair
  • tingling spine
  • moist eyes

 

Jet

It sounds quite distinctive - can you positively  identify this aircraft?

 

Lancaster

Quiet for first 3 seconds, followed by a low pass.

 

Merlin

Quiet for 3 seconds, then idling, followed by a 12 second fly past.

 

Mustang P-51

P-51 (by kind permission of the Ulster Aviation Society). Really stirring flypast by a Merlin-powered P-51 Mustang.

 

Spitfire

This is a link to the Martlesham Community Portal, where they have the best, longest, most stirring sound recording of a Spitfire I have heard on the internet [Web Admin.]

 

Thunderbolt
P-47

Flypast by a P-47 (kindly provided by Ed Malo) with its Pratt & Whitney R2800, Turbo- Supercharged, 18 cylinder air cooled radial engine 'puttering' off into the distance.
277kb 12 seconds