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This recording last about eighteen minutes. My intended target, the fence, lost out to repeated calls of an ice cream van. Exploring the sound a bit with some filters brought out a very eerie, ethereal feel to the plaintive calls of the speaker.

And a spectrogram of the recording.

P-51 Mustang Janie Spectrogram

And a spectrogram of the recording.

P51 Mustang Marinelle Spectrogram

First recording is of 2 Executives taking off.

Spectrogram of Spartan Executive take off

Second recording of 2 aircraft in a display. The two aircraft are discernible by the note of the engine/propeller, obviously a radial.

Spectrogram of 2 Spartan Executive in display

One of the aircraft is based (as far as I know) at Little Gransden. In the display is the leading aircraft.

It is available from http://www.field-recording.org.uk/hawker-hunter-fga-9-g-etps/

Doing a bit of digging around using the aircraft serial number, this may not be the billed Strikemaster but a T.3 Jet Provost. Some information from Jet Provost Heaven

Jet Provost T.3 XN637 was built by Hunting-Percival at Luton, and after flight tests was declared ready for collection on 31st August 1961. It was ferried from Luton to RAF Shawbury a week later (7th September) where it went to 27MU, for final preparations for RAF service began. On 5th October 1961, XN637 was issued to No 3 Flying Training School (3FTS), based at RAF Leeming in Yorkshire. This Unit had reformed the previous month as a Jet Provost squadron. XN637 remained in service, latterly as aircraft number ’13′, until January 1963 when it returned to RAF Shawbury for storage. It stayed mothballed with 27MU for nearly ten years until November 11th 1972, when it was moved to RAF Kemble for further storage, this time with 5MU. On 14th February 1973 XN637 was officially declared a NEA – Non Effective Airframe, and within a month it had been struck off charge

Here’s a snap of the photo during the display. The serial number on the plane in the photo confirms a Jet Provost (?).

BAC Strikemaster, Old Warden, 2nd August 2009

Recorded on 2nd August 2009, Old Warden, Beds, UK.

The PT-22 Recruit was the first trainer aircraft to be used by the United States Army Air Corps with a single wing (monoplane). Powered by a single Kinner R-5 Raidial. The aircraft has a peculiar sound due to a odd arangement of exhausts and cylinders (a high speed waltz?).

Heres a photo I took of one of the displaying aircraft during the display on the day.

Ryan PT-22 Recruit, Old Warden, 2nd August 2009

Recorded on 2nd August 2009, Old Warden, Beds, UK.

The Sea Hurricane is operated by the Shuttleworth Collection and the MK1 Hurricane (R4188) is a Battle of Britain veteran aircraft. More information about R4188 is available from here.

Some interesting information linking these two machines from the web site about the Mk1:

During its lifetime, it was fitted with no fewer than five Rolls-Royce Merlin III engines, and underwent four major rebuilds. It is still powered by a Merlin III (the only other aircraft in the world to retain a Merlin III is the Sea Hurricane at Shuttleworth). It is said to be the most historic fighter aircraft to have survived the war.

During the display you could hear a difference in the two engines although difficult to tell in a blind test. The Sea Hurricane is flown in a very conservative style, no suprise considering the age and rarity (of the two). At a push, the Sea Hurricane has a softer sound.

Recorded on 2nd August 2009, Old Warden, Beds, UK. This is a quick snap I took of the Mk1 and a photo of the Sea Hurricane from July.

Hawker Hurricane MK1 R4188 at Old Warden

Hawker Sea Hurricane, Old Warden, July 2009