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Old Aug 27, 2010 | 8:16 am
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Wally Bird
 
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Originally Posted by Mwenenzi
A PW R-1830 radial on a DC3. No better aircraft engine noise than a piston radial
4 Wright turbo-compounds on a DC-7C or L1049. Sometimes that was subsequently reduced to 3 though .

More modern, the Dash-7 in which the revs and noise didn't seem to change at all throughout the flight.

Jets - straight-pipe water-injected 707 or anything with RR Speys.

Modern jets - pah !
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