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Old 09-11-2009, 02:47 AM
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Default Theory On Engine noise

I was writing a huge post on a theory that the real reason WWII pilots couldn't hear anything outside the plane was that airspeed generates white noise, rather than it being the engine noise from the aircraft, when it just hit me, the pilots are all wearing earmuffs!

New theory: pilots can't hear anything outside their planes most of all because they are all wearing headsets, which combine earmuffs, with speakers. The speakers you can hear, and anything outside the earmuffs, you can't. The expection are things that have a path of solid matter to you. Your engine, is attached to the frame, which is attached to your chair, which is (one hopes) attached to you. It sounds a bit like the Boots of Water Breathing, but it does work.

I can't believe that never occurred to me until just now. It's only been what, eight years?

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