Brit MG Cockpit Sounds

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by skouras

you don't have to sit in a WW2 plane
to see the most obvious
join in the spit
climb
now open the canopy
and dive
you will notice the sound of air rising
now press the trigger and shoot your 8 guns
you will notice that the air is more noticeable than the guns

you get the point..

Good point.

Further to that, I've read numerous accounts of both Spit and Hurri pilots remarking that, when the ammo was expended, that they could "hear the pneumatic air blocks chuffing away on empty breeches".....or some such. If the pilots could hear THAT, then I would think they could hear 8 sets of .303 Browning muzzle blasts very clearly, too. More than what we can hear at present in CoD, surely.

I'd love to hear what an actual Spit or Hurricane pilot would say about the sound of wind blast past an open canopy. One would think it would be a deafening roar (like an open car window at highway speeds, only much worse) -- but possibly not if the air is flowing smoothly over the rounded windscreen. Has anyone read a firsthand account on this? Lots of pilots opened their canopies for landing (speeds still well above 100 mph on downwind leg & even final approach), so possibly the wind noise wasn't too overwhelming. Dunno.