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The Sound of a Chinook

  • John Murnane
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

The one word that everyone uses is

and sometimes one of an army

call out, .oh, we’ve got the Wokas doing

It's almost become a synonym for it.

the, the acoustic physics of it is way

of the blades and the fact that

and no tail rotor,

We don't have anything going that fast

which is actually quite slow

which is why you can hear the sort of six

which is a really distinctive noise.

And because

I think individual blades are about the

That's why they generate so much.

That's

But the flip side to the noise,

the Army, is they say it's one of the best

sounds because they know that they're

is that if you're going in somewhere

got some people that don't want you there,

quite a long way away.

So as we practice going nice and low

and think about where the wind's

times of day, when it's when the noise

but yeah, it's a good noise.

I still, I can still hear it from

Oh, thats a chinook, very distinctive.

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