Guest Thrasher Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 Round Engines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Death to the turbines! We gotta get rid of these turbines, they are ruining aviation. We need to go back to big round engines. Anybody can start a turbine, you just need to move a switch from"OFF" to "START," and then remember to move it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start. Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. On some planes, the pilots aren't even allowed to do it. Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a small lady-like poot and start whining louder. Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It's a blokey thing. When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but hardly exciting. Turbines don't break often enough, leading to aircrew boredom,complacency and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow at any minute. This helps concentrate the mind. Turbines don't have enough control levers to keep a pilot's attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during long flights. Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman lanterns. Round engined planes smell like God intended flying machines to smell. I think I hear the nurse coming down the hall. I gotta go.
Guest Chainsaw Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 Thrasher you are a clever man and very very correct. You just cant beat the sound of round. Jets don't light my candle.
Guest g_i_jack029 Posted December 21, 2007 Posted December 21, 2007 HAHAHAHAHA Good Job Thrasher, GOTA LOVE THE SOUND OF ROUND!!!
Uncle Chop Chop Posted December 22, 2007 Posted December 22, 2007 If you had the chance to own an engine what 1 would it be? A Trent 90 off the Boeing 777 (worlds largest Jet Engine) or a Radial Engine off a DC-3? DC-3 fr me Sir and I am sure not the ast 1 to say that.
Guest Glenn Posted December 22, 2007 Posted December 22, 2007 It's actually a GE90 made by General Electric. Round engines are not only on the DC-3, they are on many aircraft. In particular Yak's, Nanchangs etc... Nothing beats that sound though.
Guest David747 Posted December 22, 2007 Posted December 22, 2007 If you had the chance to own an engine what 1 would it be? A Boeing 747 Classic and 400 Rolls Royce Engine. :P I just love the sound of a Rolls Royce powered Boeing 747 on take off! 8) David...
Guest g_i_jack029 Posted December 24, 2007 Posted December 24, 2007 Love the sound of round but Turbines are still good full afterburner on a F-16 or F-14 that doesn't light my candle.......it Blows it away!!!!! LOVE THAT ROAR
Guest g_i_jack029 Posted December 24, 2007 Posted December 24, 2007 .........Sorry Chainsaw, i'm not too clever then. LOVE SOUND OF ROUND LOVE SOUND OF AFTERBURNER ...............I LOVE PLANES, round or turbine
Guest Chainsaw Posted December 24, 2007 Posted December 24, 2007 mmm just as well Jack that you put the Round first. LOL
Guest Xpat Posted January 5, 2008 Posted January 5, 2008 Ahh! The days of the DC6; sitting in the back rows at night feeling the rumble of the big P&W 2800 and seeing the little blue flame at the end of a red hot exhaust, when flying was a little more genteel than it is now. Those were the days!!!!
siznaudin Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 Ah well, and if you can't afford a nice sounding big round engine (and are there many of us here who can?) then how about this .. it also happens to link in aurally with my two 1909 hobby cars. And by the way ... it IS an aeroplane, believe it or not...! k-idle.wav k-idle.wav k-idle.wav
Guest Glenn Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 Sounds great but I love them better when doing a fly by
siznaudin Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 Aeronca C3: there's an account in Herschel Smith's "Aircraft Piston Engines" of one such aircraft (if they truly deserve that title) seeming to perform a little sluggishly and, after landing, it was discovered that one cylinder (of the two...) was cold. Hmmmm ... a one cylinder aeroplane :eek2:
Scottw Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 Smell the oil and fuel burn Feel the Vibration as the aircraft thunders past Hear the Rumble feel the pounding http://theaussieaviator.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2439 http://theaussieaviator.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2440
siznaudin Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 Yes quite agreed - what a wonderful sound the Trojan makes ... and if there's anything better than one good sounding round engine, it's TWO !
siznaudin Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 Sometimes 2 x 2800=4000 (horsepower...) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IM6nXsdQc]YouTube - Grumman F-7F Tigercat Demonstration - 4,000+ Horsepower ![/ame]
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