Sounds of Aviation

The sound of a spanner falling onto concrete!

I can’t help thinking that swearing might figure in this somewhere!

I do enjoy the sound of hours and hours of VC-10 groundruns that are conducted not far from my office window.

Aaaah the sound of air tools does it for me, combined with the smell of dope, rubber, oil and tea.
Whooops, nearly into a different forum territory then.

Richard

CLEAR PROP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not quite the same for a jet, Clear the fan thingy………………………….

As one who has some “British Krap” in my hangar, I nearly burst my sides laughing at this comment by mjr on another thread. This is THE sound of historic aviation in my view :eek::D:D

*!!@*!ing piece of *!!!t, *****!!*le British krap!!!!*, arghhh, just go in the efin hole for gauds sake!!!”

(Snip snip …………………..)
sometimes I wonder why we torture ourselves…

Taken from this thread:
http://forum.keypublishing.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1527408

Bird song echoing in the rafters of an old hangar…..

Oil plopping gently into the driptray… 😀

The whine followed by a whoosh as the EE/BAC Lightnings AVPIN starter kicks into life!!

Large doors on an old hangar rattling on their runners in the wind….

Roger Smith.

Tug getting started

Whilst aircraft towing…
CRUNCH !!………”BRAKES”

The sound of the Sioux and Beavers coughing and spluttering into life early in the morning, that Teeny Weany Airways (AAC) operated out of RAF Aldergrove in the mid 70’s

Bird song echoing in the rafters of an old hangar…..

The 12 gauge taking out aforesaid mentioned bird……….

The sound of a skylark hovering over the airfield on a warm summers day. Reminds me of West Malling in the days when the USN were based there. Not a single movement all day, just a Neptune sitting on the apron and the skylark chirping away!

Whilst aircraft towing…
CRUNCH !!………”BRAKES”

That used to be one of my favorite things! At the end of the day riding in the cockpit, hand on brake, while the aircraft got towed back to the hangar:D

The ticking of an engine as it cools down and the aroma of burning you get coming off it.

Military aviation

The Tannoy echoing across the station 0810 Monday morning

“This..is a test..of the public address system..from Air Traffic Control.. there will now be a test of the station crash alarm………………!!”

These tests were carried out by the guardroom, ATC and Operations and we would get to hear air raid sirens, all clear, crash alarms,etc. If you happened to be in a hangar when this was going on with all the doors open, it sounded fabulous.

The sound of the gyros spinning after the engine has been shut down!

The crack as a Chipmunks Gipsy Major springs to life!

I guess with my screen name there wouldn’t be many other sounds that I’d associate with aviation. 😀

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