[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[Bob Macklin]

Yes the headsets did provided some protection. We used headsets with foam 
muffs.

But you could feel the both the guns and the engines.

The guns were not the main problem. The much longer exposure to the engine 
noise was the problem.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
Cc: "Jack Antonio" <scr287 at att.net>; <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets


> 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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