Ackchyually it’s pretty easy to identify “a” WW2 Plane…
A lot of ww2 aircraft have very recognizable sounds, though.
Rotary engines have a distinctive sound, where the pitch is affected by the amount of cylinders… so if you know how many cylinders your favorite early bomber has, you can probably tell it apart from the others. Usually an odd number for some mechanical reason I never quite understood, so there aren’t that many to choose from.
Ju87 (aka stuka) had the siren mounted on the lead aircraft and when you think of that sound a plane makes in a steep dive, that’s why
Not that many aircraft used a V12 engine, so if you guess that it’s a spitfire or P51 mustang because it sounds like an F1 car, chances that you are wrong are small. Well, the bf109 does, but nobody likes that aircraft for its sound.
Genuine lol
Rotary engines have a distinctive sound, where the pitch is affected by the amount of cylinders… so if you know how many cylinders your favorite early bomber has, you can probably tell it apart from the others.
“See, you don’t have to be autistic to recognize airplane sounds. You just need to memorize the cylinder count of every WW2 bomber aircraft.”
Do you have to be autistic to know OP meant radial engine and not rotary engine?
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IMO any good thing that has ever come out of this world has been because is someone’s little hyperfocus, data retention or detail obsession. We should welcome the spectrums instead of trying to suppress them.
I mean, the Stuka was designed to sound recognizable. Even today people will know.
Lemme guess it sounds like neeeeeaooom gatatata- eeoooouuuuu…bppssshhhhh
NeeeeeeaaaAAAHHHHHHoooooom
ITT: people find out they are on the spectrum
The replies remind me of this xkcd
For thoae who care, the acute accent goes on the first e of fiancée, not the second
Have you had your pills yet? Thank you :p
Seems more like a chronic one, though, if you ask me.
Having grown up near a US Navy base in the 90s, I can still tell the difference between an A-6, F-14, or F-18 by sound.
For the movie Grand Prix (1967), they put microphones inside of each car’s engine, so that they would get the distinct sound of each just right. They also recorded the sounds of the upshifts and downshifts of each car while driving the Monaco Grand Prix course, and then the professional drivers recreated the dozens of shifts in sequence from memory on a runway to make sure they got clean audio of the entire race.
Honestly, if you look at how that movie was made, I’m not convinced that they should have been allowed to make it… but I’m glad that they did, because it’s an astonishing technical achievement.
TBF one learns the shifting sequences for any track pretty easily in sim racing. I judge how well I’m doing on a particular lap by whether I’m shifting later than usual.
I have more trouble imagining them doing braking accurately, as presumably they’d need to record that too, and it’s typically done from visual references. Also they’d need 3.2 km of straight runway to avoid them having to do actual turns — might’ve had to use salt flats or somesuch.
P.S. That movie is also a great example of how a decent 70mm film is still a splendid source for ‘hd’ video and will probably be re-digitized decades from now into new ‘100k’ formats.
Tbf, the A10 Wathog is cheating.
Has to be bait. The A10 is a WWIII plane obviously.
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Not sure if worth it for me starring to fake autism. Not sure if necessary as well.
If you are big enough of a star your youtube channel could finance your consumption.
Can’t do it by sound but because of the amount of hours I’ve wasted in war thunder, I can pretty much get every military aircraft at airshows when they’re 2k ft in the air and just passing overhead because I was too cheap to actually buy tickets to the airshow.
I can tell a radial from a V12. I am a little autistic, but I don’t think you need to be on that one…
If it’s a jet, you’ve either got a Meteor or a 262. A loud explosion means it’s a 163.
Very useful skill for playing WWII ARMA mods.
Was gonna say, I can ID all Arma Reforger helis by sound. #lifeskills
We have a standing rule against looting enemy weapons, partly because the more experienced players sometimes open up on sound sources.
In the foxhole, shaking
