RC B-17 On Film With Round Sound

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Turn the volume UP at engine start and on takeoff after the melodramatic intro. It doesn't get any better than this unless your standing next to one or have a Bose system. Looks like Dana Andrews walking around the boneyard.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=topydKCULBQ&mode=related&search=

[RonMiller]

Nice video but you dont have to have a Bose system to enjoy the sound. Bose exaggerates midbass and midtreble to make you think you are hearing the natural sound, when you are hearing a lot of exaggerated harmonics instead. Most audiophiles shudder at the mere mention of bose and high fidelity in the same sentence.

Come by my house and hear a real stereo, tube powered preamp, 325watt rms per channel power amp, Magnepan Magneplanar speakers with a subwoofer, 7" reel to reel Pioneer tape deck and another Pioneer 10 1/2" 4 channel reel to reel tape deck, along with an oppo dvd player and a panasonic projector for video.

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I shudder at the sound of four 1,200-hp Wright R-1820-97 Cyclone turbocharged radial piston engines whenever I'm often standing near or next to the Collings Foundation B-17, or their B-24H/J with Four 1,200-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-65 Twin Wasp turbocharged radial piston engines, and while listening to my Round-Sound CD delivered through my Bose Headset, and I'm not an audiophile.

If I were, I couldn't bear the disappointments you described which would detract from the music.

[RonMiller]

Hey, as long as you are happy. You recommend Bose, I don't. Besides, you changed the playing field now by using headphones. If you wanted some real headphones, you should try an electrostatic pair from Stax or Koss, although I used to really enjoy my Senheiser set. So, enjoy your shuddering with your overmarketed overpriced underachieving Bose and I'll enjoy aural orgasms with my non Bose equipment.




Ps this is kind of fun isnt it.

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I didn't recommend Bose. I simply enjoy their system (both headphones and speakers) after listening to the real thing, Collings aircraft including their B-25.

[Galvin]

Getting back to the airplane...

Now you know why I am so into electrics.

You may have noticed that there were no cylinder heads and mufflers hanging out to spoil the scale effect on one of the better executions of a B-17 that I have ever seen. And cleanup of the model after flying was done that day was probably no more than wiping the dust off the bottom of the model as opposed to the major degreasing job that four gas engines would have required.

The actual B-17 sounds heard on the video could have just as easily been put on a chip and fed through on board speakers as is now beginning to be done on scale warbirds as dubbed onto the video sound track after filming, which was done here very well.

For those who are interested, the airfield shown in the clips from "The Best Years Of Our Lives" with Dana Andrews walking through the rows of airplanes being dismantled was Ontario Army Airfield in Ontario, California. It is now Ontario International Airport and was the original home of "Planes of Fame" for many years prior to their moving to Buena Park adjacent to Knotts Berry Farm and then finally to their present home at Chino Airport a few miles south of Ontario.

Chino aitport was also covered with WWII aircraft at the time the movie was filmed and recently quite a few artifacts have been dug up, including armor plate from the Martin B-26s that were scrapped there.

I used to fly over Ontario now and then back in the eighties and the old WWII style lollipop shaped hardstands on the south side of the runways were still there. If anyone has an overhead of the airport today I would be interested if they still exist.

[Galvin]

I just checked Global Explorer and although most of the ones I remember are gone, two or three of those WWII old hard stands are still there on the southwest corner of Ontario Airport as of January 1 this year.

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An on-board sound system is now available on trains. I've recently been bitten by the model train bug, N Scale, and I plan to build a model city, a gritty industrial area and a small dairy farm. This will allow me to feature both passenger and freight trains. It's all in the planning stages although I've already spent some money.

I'd like to reflect the forties and fifties era and hope to have a DC-3, a DC-6, and a Constellation overhead of course.

Here's a website displaying a spectacular collection of freight trains in N Scale. There's a tank car named "Hooker Chemical, Tacoma Washington" in there FYI.
modelrailroad.atspace.com/indexen.htm

I think I was bitten by the bug when I had an early morning paper route. I'd finish up, head toward the train station and stand under the protective overhang to watch the steam engines, and then later on, the diesels come through. The station had separate sections for men and women, can you believe that? Pipe and cigar smoke curled through and smogged the men's section. The fair ladies didn't smoke in public so they enjoyed clean air. I'm sure this affected the actuarial tables.

After school, an occasional PBY and many DC-6's, Convairs, etc. would be droning overhead. Life was good - life is good.