On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:12 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Doug Franklin >> >> On 2010-08-02 14:47, Adam Maas wrote: >> >>> > 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. >> >> I've probably never heard a 214's sound, but I always thought the UH-60 >> had a more distinctive note than the Snake, Cobra, or UH-1. > > The Bell 214 uses pretty much the same rotor as the UH-1, just bigger blades > & engine. It has the same distinctive rotor slap as the UH-1, but it can be > louder.
It's a similar but seperate design to the UH-1, the entire power pack and rotor assembly are different between the 214 and UH-1, the rest of the airframe is essentially a 212/Twin Huey with reinforcements for the higher GTOW. The 214 is louder than its smaller siblings and the slower, larger chord rotors have a distinctly different sound to them which carries much further. It's essentially a Bass to the UH-1's Tenor and it's utterly unmistakable. > > The UH-60 has a very quiet rotor system by comparison, with no distinctive > beat. > No distinctive beat, but it's got a unique sound as well. And yes, much quieter than even the 4-blade UH-1 variants. -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.
