From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5A613877A for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF7AEE0A7D; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D30E0A5D for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.134] (helo=smtp3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1J5l-0004UJ-Qr for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:40:41 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1J5l-0004Rl-Ce for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:40:41 +0200 Received: from [10.20.72.47] (unknown [62.140.132.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 997504C for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:39:21 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <53B040F3.7020801@gmail.com> References: <2496439.MpaEqoKpQ0@wstn> <2449262.q8siHepaFf@wstn> <53AFDAC8.8040608@gmail.com> <2331335.SeYTxk6H8K@wstn> <53B040F3.7020801@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho! From: "J. Roeleveld" Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:40:35 +0200 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: c0a5b90e-3a10-44bb-b7ac-0d958c41bfb1 X-Archives-Hash: cd0976e1628d5eaa9f3409cef19e0ccb On 29 June 2014 18:38:11 CEST, Dale wrote: >Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Of course! I missed the Spitfire, so I don't know how high it flew, >but the=20 >> Hurricane sound from no more than a couple of hundred feet or so was >among the=20 >> two or three most impressive of my life. Both planes have V12 >Rolls-Royce=20 >> Merlin engines (I think). As each cylinder fired, the sound pressure >went up=20 >> extremely fast at the start of the exhaust beat, suggesting huge >exhaust=20 >> valves, and the deep-throated roar was ... just ... beyond >description. >> >> The only engine to come close was an extraordinary 1/3 scale model of >a nine- >> cylinder radial aero-engine I saw years ago at a national model >engineering=20 >> exhibition. The crankshaft was anchored to the frame, and the entire >engine=20 >> and prop rotated around it. That's what you call air-cooling! >Absolutely=20 >> fantastic when he fired it up once an hour or so! > >Yep. Some of those prop engines are very powerful, maybe not so >efficient tho. Anyway, they sure do make some noise even if the engine >is small. I don't think they have mufflers or if they do, it isn't >much >of one. I also think they burn methanol or something too. I'm not >sure >and it may even vary from one engine to another. I don't think they >burn plain old gas like cars.=20 If you are talking about model engines. The bigger ones run normal petrol= , just like cars, lawn mowers, chain saws,..... >>> I live about 4 or 5 miles from a air force base here. We have >mostly >>> training type planes that fly over us but on occasion, we have >something >>> really big here. We have even had the space shuttle land there a >few times.=20 >>> The B2 bombers have been there as well. >> Sounds like a good place to live! That's not Edwards, is it? I drove >up to the=20 >> gates once to see what they'd say. They were actually quite polite. > >I'm close to Columbus Air Force base in Mississippi. It has a huge >runway. It is one reason the space shuttle lands here. It takes a >long >runway to land and take off when carrying that thing. I say space >shuttle, it's mounted on the back of a 747 I think. What's more neat >tho is the big bombers. My Dad several decades ago was doing a >contract >job at the base. For some reason they had the really big bombers out >there with armed military guards everywhere. They wouldn't let anyone >even near those things. He could see them real good tho. He said "it >looked like death, just plain death". Later on my Dad found out it was >loaded up with bombs that they were moving somewhere else. Death was >more accurate than he thought.=20 > > >> >>> I have heard some of the large planes when they start their engines >and >>> like I said, I'm several miles away and it is loud. Video just >can't >>> give you that even with a good sub-woofer. >> Even that wouldn't help much, I think. You'd need something that can >handle an=20 >> extremely rapid wave-front and high volumes. As you said - you had to >be=20 >> there. > >Yep, speakers can only do so much.=20 > > >> >>> Thanks for the link. >> My pleasure. I don't know when we'll get the Hurricane one - the man >with the=20 >> camera just put a two-word entry on Twitter this morning: "Hashtag >HEADACHE" >> > > >Oooops.=20 > >Dale > >:-) :-) --=20 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.