One chopper sounds pretty much like any other to me. When I was in Viet Nam, I flew around in F-4s. Now, they did indeed have a distinctive sound, especially with the afterburner on for quick take-off. Made it hard to hear the hum of the rotors. <G>
Dan On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:45 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We get a lot of Chinook helicopters flying over here too, and they are also >>> unmistable and very loud. You can feel the pounding in your chest long >>> before you can see them, or even hear them for that matter - some sort of >>> subsonic vibration seems to precede them. >> >> I've heard them, too. Contemporary reports suggested that sound of the big >> Chinook was a significant part of the impact of the helicopter gunships in >> Vietnam. Of course "Puff the Magic Dragon" (a military version of the DC3, >> the C-47, fitted with a pair of 7.62 mini guns with a rate of fire of up to >> 6000 rounds per minute) could deliver greater firepower, for a longer period, >> but it didn't have that big throbbing backbeat. Neither played Wagner's >> "Ride of the Valkyries", either, but that's a whole different movie. >> >> > > The Chinook gunships never did play a large role in Vietnam as only 4 > were ever built, only 3 ever made it to Vietnam and they only were > actively used for a couple years early in the war (Late 65 through > mid-68). They were very heavuly armed though. The main use of the > Chinook in Vietnam was as a medium lift helicopter hauling cargo or > larger detachments of troops. > > I suspect you're thinking of the very distinctive sound of the Huey's, > especially in the Gunship role. Huey Snakes, and later the Huey Cobra > were the primary gunships used in Vietnam. > > Note the Chinook may be loud, but the sound isn't terribly > distinctive, they sound very similar to a number of other twin-rotor > designs, many of which were still active back then. > > If you want a really distinctive sound though, nothing matches the > Bell 214's. They're a Huey on a serious case of steriods and sound > exactly like that, with a much deeper and slower version of the Huey's > classic whop-whop sound. > > -Adam. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
