Doug Franklin wrote: > mike wilson wrote: > > >>BTW, wind your sound up and listen to the Merlin at full blast here. Don't >>play the Corsair one at the top, it will make you feel ill. >>http://www.aviationshoppe.com/Sounds1.html > > > There used to be a tractor pull "car" here in the US that had either > five or seven Merlins fitted. He claimed close to 10,000 HP, IIRC. > They were /not/ stock-fitment Merlins. :-) > > I love the sound of the Wright radials, like the one in the Corsair. At > an air show when I was a kid, a "flight" of three Corsairs buzzed the > crowd at "mess up our hair" altitude and it was just stupendous, and > nearly stupefying. > The sound I was referring to was the radial startup which, for some reason, the page has as the main sound. The full-throated roar version is there but you have to look for it. Still not as nice (for me) as the inline(ish) Merlin, with the overlaying supercharger whine.
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