I occasionally fly over my brother's place and he commented "I can
always tell when it's you. No other airplane sounds like yours."
I have a short video of Baby Blue taking off from Rough River. It does
sound really cool... I'll see if I can dig it up and make it available
for viewing...
Jeff - Baby Blue
500+ hours
On 8/30/2010 8:21 AM, david miller wrote:
> Hi Troy,
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> A friend is in the habit of overflying my place in his 914 mono,
> normally to indicate that I should be flying rather than doing yard work.
> His plane has a unique sound and even my wife can recognize when he is
> approaching.
> There is a sort of whistle generated, which I put down to airflow or
> turbo and the fact that the aircraft is much quieter than your average
> factory built,
> so you can actually hear sounds other than the engine.
> Years ago a friend and I built a Marske flying wing glider, it too had a
> very distinctive whistle in flight, one of many odd traits of the aircraft !
>
> Dave C-FBZI
> On 29-Aug-10, at 9:04 PM, Troy Maynor wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>> Long ago in the original Europa factory video, there is a segment
>> where the two factory planes do a low pass. When they pull up and bank
>> you can hear a whirring sound or a cry similar to the sound a bird or
>> something. I know this may sound ridiculous but maybe some of you have
>> heard it yourself. I watched a short clip of my Europa do a fast low
>> pass last Thursday and heard it coming from mine also. You can't
>> detect anything inside the cockpit that I'm aware of, and I'm certain
>> I didn't go supersonic. The first time I flew over my brothers home a
>> couple months ago his wife later said (with an unknowing worried look
>> on her face) that she had heard a screaking sound. At the time I
>> didn't lend much creedance to her comment. It happened again while
>> flying over another friends house, so now I am curious. Has anyone
>> else experienced this? Is it coming from the engine? Prop? Somewhere
>> along the airframe? I don't think it's anything to worry about but I
>> just want to know if others have heard this. On all occasions, the
>> aircraft was in a banking climb. It actually sounded pretty cool. Just
>> wondering....
>> Troy Maynor
>> Monowheel Classic UK120
>> 47 fun hours so far!
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