[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I had some 1500 or so hours in B-52s.  As an EWO,
I sat at the left side of the upper deck.  Racks
of equipment were to my left, but just air to my
right.  I suspect that loss of hearing in my right
ear is primarily due to what I perceive was lower
noise from engines on my left side from physical
attenuation offered by the electronic stuff.

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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 *
* (Since 30 Nov 53) *
* Oklahoma City, OK *
* USAF, Ret (61-81) *
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> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:02:48 -0500
> From: scr287 at att.net
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets
>
> 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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