[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[J. Forster]

I*'d have thought the guns firing was a whole lot louder than the engines.

-Jo0hn

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> One of the owners of the company I used to work for
> was a B-25 pilot in the Pacific.  He was deaf in his
> left ear, because of that.  The prop was very near
> to the cockpit, and due to the heat, they flew with
> everything open most of the time.
>
> (I wonder, though, how much sound insulating
> properties plexiglass would have had, probably not
> much).
>
> He said that most B-25 pilots were deaf in their
> left ear, copilots went deaf in the right ear.
>
> Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4
>
>
> On 1/8/2011 9:32 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>> On 7 Jan 2011 at 17:49, Bob Macklin wrote:
>>
>>> Do you want to know the nosiest place in a bomber? It's the open waist
>>> gun ports! Especially in a B-25. You are looking right at the exhaust
>>> stacks!
>> My understanding is that the B-25 was the loudest twin-piston-engined
>> bomber ever used by the U.S. military...
>>
>> Then...there was the "Thunder-shreik"...
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
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