[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[J. Forster]

Clearly. But weren't the guns much louder?

Also, did the commom headsets provide any noise reduction. I know those
used in the UK & Canadian Wireless Set 19, etc are quite good at excluding
external racket.

-John

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> The noise from the guns was only for short periods. The engine noise was
> for
> the entire mission.
>
> In 1958 we got our first ear protection for when we were working on the
> flightline.
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> T/SGT USAF
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> To: "Jack Antonio" <scr287 at att.net>
> Cc: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 8:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets
>
>
>> I*'d have thought the guns firing was a whole lot louder than the
>> engines.
>>
>> -Jo0hn
>>
>> ============
>>
>>
>>> 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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