Best Radial Engine Sounds, Volume 1

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Best Radial Engine Sounds, Volume 1
Today we celebrate some of the most cherished sounds in aviation on which to feast your ears...radial engines. I have lovingly curated a list of some of my favorites, though many left out will be added to another video soon. This is my first go at this series, and I’m welcome to your radial recommendations for my next video!
00:00 C-46
Curtis C-46 Commando, with Pratt & Whitney R-2800s. The C-46 has large diameter propellers that turn very slow. As a result, the C-46 makes quite a unique buzz-saw sound when taking off as the prop tips reach supersonic speed. In addition, the exhaust note is fantastic.
1:48 Caribou
The DeHavilland Caribou is an absolute beast of an aircraft. Designed to lift huge loads out of tiny spaces, it also might be the slowest aircraft with 3,000 total HP. Its Pratt & Whitney R-2000s have augmented exhausts which rip up the air as it slowly floats by. Caribous saw a lot of action in Vietnam. The Australians kept their Caribous operational, well into the 2000s. Allegedly, there was no other aircraft that could replace them. Currently, only a small handful are kept airworthy.
3:29 Avro Anson
The Avro may seem out of place in the company of such powerful aircraft. But the 7-cylinder Cheetah powered Anson sounds surprisingly big and powerful for such a small twin. In fact, it sounds a little bit like the Caribou! It’s an odd-looking plane, but is pleasant to listen to.
4:23 Albatross
The Albatross, asides from being one of my favorite planes, is also one of the most bad-ass sounding. Powered by 2 Wright 1820s with 1,475HP, they produce what can be best described as pure mayhem when in full throttle. Whereas most large radials have large displacement and turn slowly, the Wright 1820 uses high-gearing to obtain the most power from its 9 cylinders.
6:14 Convair 240 / Convair 340 / Convair 440
The Convair Metroliner family had possibly the best sound of all large radials. Powered by Pratt & Whitney R-2800s, the Convair sounded very smooth and rumbled deep with its large 3-blade propellers. A handful of Convairs still operate cargo routes and can occasionally be seen in the Miami skies. The perfectly harmonized sound of the big radial and big prop makes an almost haunting sound, But it’s beautiful music to my ears!
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Video Credits:
• C-46 commando taking o...
• Buffalo Airways C-46 T...
• C-46 Taxi and Take Off...
• Buffalo Airways C-46 C...
• De Havilland DHC4 Cari...
• De Havilland Canada DH...
• HARS de Havilland Cana...
• Caribou Test flight by...
• Video
• Avro 19 / Avro Anson :...
• Avro Nineteen Anson
• grumman albatross takeoff
• Grumman HU-16 Albatros...
• Grumman Albatross G-11...
• Close up!!! Grumman HU...
• Air Tahoma Inc Convair...
• Airliners Internationa...
• AMAZING PLANESPOTTING ...
• Convair C-131B Departu...
• Air Atlantique Convair...
If one of the clips featured is yours and I did not correctly give credit or you would like to have the clip removed, please contact me via e-mail. Thanks!
Tags
Radial sounds, radial engine sounds, Curtis C-46, Curtis Commando, Dehavilland Caribou, Avro Anson, Grumman Albatross, convair 240, convair 340, convair 440

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@jeffmorton9220 2 жыл бұрын

To me, the sounds of a radial engine starting up can’t be beat. The sounds of each cylinder reluctantly huffing, chugging, and wheezing as they came to life is a real attention getter.

@glennjames7107 2 жыл бұрын

Thank God ! I thought I was the only one.

@RobertoRMOLA 10 ай бұрын

@@glennjames7107 Nope! There is a legion, brother...

@dondoyle8474 2 жыл бұрын

I love the sound of a Radial engine . It has the sound of real power. 👍👍

@antoniotisineto9089 2 жыл бұрын

All of them are music to my hears.

@musicynic 2 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there

@gmanchurch 2 жыл бұрын

O YEAH! SWEET SOUNDING!

@rickdaystar477 2 жыл бұрын

I miss my Caribou's. SEA Vietnam 1970. They hauled everything from ammo to goats. Landed and took off from patches of open jungle. I don't miss repairing the big honking exhaust cans. They cracked often but we patched them up.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing experience I bet!

@stephenwhorton4942 3 ай бұрын

I consider the radial engine to be compatible to a violin. There's something pleasing about its sound.

@nicom.peeters1576 Жыл бұрын

According to my parents, I was able to discern Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights on Constellations, DC-3s, Convairs, DC-4s, etc. when I was 2. We were living at Schiphol Airport, where my father was employed at KLM in the early fifties. So these sounds make me a bit melancholic, many thanks for sharing!

@jeri7320 2 жыл бұрын

me, i really love the Radial engine sound. i really miss to hear it.. sounds like a harmony. really loved it.

@darrellborland119 Жыл бұрын

I like that deep sound from those Wright 1820's...beefy....and of course, who can not get by without elevated pulse rate on hearing a Constellation with turbo compound engines taxiing by? Think there is a video of one and a flyby too. thanks.

@Old_B52H_Gunner 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing sounds like a radial engine. I was 6 the first time I heard one, it was a Corsair at an air show and I was instantly hooked. I’m going on 60 and still hooked.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

I must have been around that age and lived near an airport where old cargo planes flew nonstop to the Caribbean. That did it for me.

@MarcvanExel 2 жыл бұрын

No orchestra can beat this music, great compilation!

@andrerovigatti9997 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ! Those sounds make a great Sound Museum !

@georgecurtis6463 2 жыл бұрын

In my younger days, 50s, I rode in sa16s, dc3s and dc6s. Also bigger prop planes going across the pacific on pan am. Globemasters ? I would just watch the exhaust flames for hours and hours. Guam, midway, hawaii and to calif. The previous small planes were from guam to yap or saipan or truk.

@davidbolton184 3 ай бұрын

Love that the gyro pilot from The Road Warrior made it in the closing credits.I believe he also played the train conductor in The Matrix Bruce Spense was his name I think

@P61guy61 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Thank you for posting.

@maverick1685 2 жыл бұрын

That was very nice. Thank you. Love the sound of Radials.

@agairinc 2 жыл бұрын

Good job . Nothing but engines!

@georgemutinda2044 Жыл бұрын

Radial engines on aircrafts are like big old V8 truck engines.... might not be as fast but can pretty much take any assault.....I love this engine configuration alott I guess thats why the FU_Cosair isy favourite warbird.

@stenalbertsen2440 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff 😎👍

@glennjames7107 2 жыл бұрын

Best sound is, on landing that moment when you close the throttles, that cackling, or popping sound you get from some. Especially if they got one or two loose exhaust pipes !

@charleskelly5672 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I needed this! As a kid back in the 'sixties" I would stand fire guard when the DC-6B's of Purdue University (using old Western Airlines' Douglas's) would fire up their big Pratt & Whitney R2800 CB17's at the Pinellas airport in St. Petersburg, FL. I've "oiled" the "Sixes;" as well as the R2000's of the cattle hauling DC-4's, and gassed up the DC-3's, Twin Beeches, and the occasional executive version of the Douglas A26 Invader. The Lockheed Loadstar was a frequent visitor. At the wash rack off the end of runway 9, the Coast Guard would run engine checks on their Albatrosses, the short stacked Wright's bellowing away at power. Way off, on a quiet morning, you could hear the beautiful, and as you so aptly put it, "haunting" sounds of Pratts at climb power, as the Convair C131's (military version of the CV 440) came out of MacDill AFB and climbed out over the VOR on our field. As they crossed overhead, the sound would change from the beautiful propeller/satellite gear note weaving slowly in and out of sync to the throaty sound of combustion as it exited the big exhaust augmenters at the trailing edges of the wings. I was lucky early on in a flying life to fly between these great radials. The 1830's of the venerable Douglas DC-3, and the R2800's of the old Martin 404. Typed in both airplanes, it is something I cherish. Today, at 74, the sound and response of a wonderful old Stearman in military colors and the healthy sound of a beautifully overhauled 7 cylinder Continental W670 radial caps a lifetime in the air. Thank you for a swell trip back back in time. Mike Kelly "Old School Aviator"

@aircraftadventures-vids Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback, that was a put in a quite poetic way. These planes bring out the best in us!

@skippmclovan1135 Жыл бұрын

Yes, they sound good . . personally i am a sucker for the WOT sound of the big TCM and Lycoming flat sixes - the sound of the Cessna 180 (0-470 Continental) ..and of the 310 (with two of these syncronized beauties) - pure music to the ears..!

@mikebarrett5890 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Beautiful sounds.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Too many to choose actually.

@WorivpuqloDMogh 11 ай бұрын

They sound awesome

@keithgraham6889 9 ай бұрын

I loved flying behind one in in an Ag Cat crop duster until I was run over by a Navy A6-e Intruder.

@grizzle273463 2 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous music

@RichardFStripeRendezvous 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Caribou footage from Addison KADS!

@karhlhenselien2260 Жыл бұрын

I went for a joy flight in a caribou when I was a kid at Amberly airbase Australia,ever since then I've been in love with radial engines 👍👍

@aircraftadventures-vids Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine what the felt like!

@hanziwatdan5373 2 жыл бұрын

Pure music 😍

@juanreyes2556 Жыл бұрын

I love the sound of C-46 end Convair`s series Thanks for the video!!

@aircraftadventures-vids Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@juanreyes2556 Жыл бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids Thanks

@davecrupel2817 2 жыл бұрын

0:51 the B-25 has the same engines. R-2800s. Combined with the rather large props they have, they make that perfect "old airplane" engine sound. And at the perfect decibel level. It fills your ears, but it doesn't hurt them.

@MarcvanExel 2 жыл бұрын

The B-25 has Wright R-2600's that gives them that different sound

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

R2600, with 14 cylinders (vs 18 on the 2800) But just the same, they have a wonderful sound of their own! The Avenger shares the same engine as the B-25, btw.

@mikearakelian6368 Жыл бұрын

I flew DH4 with widows open...engine's talk to you if anything amiss...having a little trouble with my hearing now...

@muffs55mercury61 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yes the planes do the talking and sing some beautiful music here. I occasionally still see a Convair now & then singing its beautiful music up there in the sky. Thank goodness these are not stuck in some museum never to fly again.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Living near OPF where a few still fly, I can say that sadly many fly till either the company can't sustain them or they simply get ditched in the ocean when something goes wrong. They literally fly them till the plane dies.

@muffs55mercury61 2 жыл бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids Proper maintenance can keep them flying indefinitely but sadly many of these small outfits cut corners and a number of those old birds have been lost thru the years. Really sad hearing about it. Like Roberto Clemente's DC-7 that went down in 1972 that had many mechanical issues. Or like the Boeing 377 that went down in Mexico in 1987 due to overloading. And a Super Constellation that went down in the ocean in 1990 between Miami and the Dominican Republic (one of the last freighters of that type that was flying) Just sad, not to mention the loss of human life.

@Wichelroede Жыл бұрын

Saved the best for last! Thnx! 8:01

@coronapack 2 жыл бұрын

Forgot my plane. The dehavilland beaver.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

There's just too many to list, sorry!

@PeterNGloor Ай бұрын

most friendly, pleasant sound is the PW 2800 in the Convair 440 and the DC-6B.

@flugjung 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely video!!! The Anson was a nice surprise. They flew in airline service with what was them Aeronaves de Mexico (present day Aeroméxico). Watching the video just blew my imagination . I wished I could have watched one taking off in the old gravel runway near the beach in Acapulco. This was the very old Playa de Hornos airport.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah probably no one was expecting that but I found it quite unique when I first heard it.

@christianbaler1166 2 жыл бұрын

Adventurer You give here a Wounderfull "Music Collection "...i fell w.you But i miss the Douglas A-26👋🤗👍greetings f.Germany

@davef.2811 2 жыл бұрын

A DC-7 using anything over 50" MAP for T/O has an addicting sound like no other. A TC-18 equipped Super Connie also, but the 3 blade props also went trans-sonic on T/O, partially obscuring the engine sound.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Funny you mention that, I head the pleasure of witnessing both when I worked near Opalocka (OPF) about 20 years ago. The DC-7 sounds amazing, though I'm sure for the most part are using reduced settings. And the Super Connie was a sight to behold but as you mentioned, real big prop chop sound. Even though they are smaller, 3-blades R2800s make the best sound.

@MarianneBuswell-dm4cr 9 ай бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids8:38

@juanpabloquinchiacortes6628 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video, but, where is the DC-3?

@aircraftadventures-vids 3 жыл бұрын

Love the DC-3! You'll be happy to know I've got a "Best DC-3 Videos" coming out soon. And there's so many other great sounding radials - I will be putting together a new collection on these soon.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Crap a year goes by and where's the video I promised. Please hold me to it, folks!

@pilotthomas144 2 жыл бұрын

You should make it one hour, I need radial engine melody to sleep !

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

I need a lot more time for editing, lol!

@tropicdrmng 10 ай бұрын

Ah, you put it so eloquent Mr Mornton9220, I agree. I used to ride my bike to the local airport and watch so many radial powered aircraft land and take off. Unfortunately the diversity of powered flight has been distilled down to the "suck" n blow" variant of today's world.

@davecrupel2817 2 жыл бұрын

The Caribou is DeHavilland's DC-3. Absolute *truck* of an airplane.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

I read the Caribou did not fare as well as it did, as the DC-3's could do the same job for much less. The Caribou was sort of a niche plane which would work if: a) You had to carry a lot more than the DC-3 b) Rough field and STOL c) Short haul. Anything else, the DC-3 could do better, cheaper, plus many more of them around.

@yosephinaeda711 2 жыл бұрын

Caribou also delivered in Malaysia.

@thimuoimotmai464 11 ай бұрын

Cám ơn video của bạn rất hay, chúc bạn sức khỏe và hạnh phúc.

@massimomassai3337 9 ай бұрын

E grazie per la traduzione in italiano.....

@theprinceofliberia6793 Жыл бұрын

My favorite was the albatross

@aircraftadventures-vids Жыл бұрын

Love the Albatross. I saw one at Osh this year but sadly didn't witness it flying.

@LauHuX51 2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of 7-cylinders, there are (were?) a couple Wacos on Kauai making a lot of noise, but not going far or fast.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

A Waco going fast isn't good news! 😂

@wa1ufo 11 ай бұрын

Symphonic Sounds

@diegoarnary2493 3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@humbertocarreira175 2 жыл бұрын

Fucking Hell!!! If you don't like that,you are crazy!!!

@secularsunshine9036 11 күн бұрын

*Let the Sunshine In...*

@SIRTEDD 9 ай бұрын

Rip Jimmy Buffet

@aircraftadventures-vids 9 ай бұрын

😞

@PeterNGloor Ай бұрын

I thought the Buffalo was the replacement model for the Caribou.

@TheWidebody747 2 жыл бұрын

What? No Beech 18?

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Too many to list, sorry! I personally love the 3-blader / radial combo on the -18

@psmith2234 2 жыл бұрын

I love the sound of any radial-engined airplane, but don't agree that the Convair 240/340/440 Metroliners had the best sound. My vote goes to the 749A variant of the Lockheed Constellation. Almost all other radials (including those on other versions of the Connies) had a collector exhaust manifold wrapped in a ring behind the cylinders. with just one or occasionally two exhaust pipes. But the 749As had individual shorty stacks, no manifold. With four 2500hp Wrights pumping out their ten thousand horsepower on take-off, that sound was glory itself. For several years in the mid-'50s through mid-'60s, my Dad piloted these beautiful machines for Pacific Northern Airlines, flying from Seattle to various points in southern Alaska, and as a boy I got to go on several trips which remain high points of my life. I really feel bad for all you younger-than-me aviation enthusiasts who'll never see anything like the Golden Age of commercial aviation in the 1950s. Modern jet travel, even before TSA and Covid destroyed our airports, is a pathetic bore to old men who got to watch, listen to, or even ride in DC-3s, -4s, and 6Bs, the 749 and 1049 Constellations, the Stratocruisers, the Convairs, as I did. Not bragging; I consider myself very fortunate in this.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the insight. Sadly I have never witnessed the 749A variant, only the Super Connie taking off, so can't really comment. I enjoy the Convairs, not necessarily because they are loud but they have this certain growl attributed to the augmenter pipes in the back. Which to my knowledge, not too many radials seemed to use.

@psmith2234 2 жыл бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids My luck in growing up when and where I did in the Fifties/Sixties (b. 1946) goes even further. As with many families of airline employees (plus many Boeing workers), we lived in a new-after-WW2 middle-class development that was a short ten-minute commute west of Seattle-Tacoma Airport, a big international hub in 24-hour operation. Therefore, every night I'd drift off to sleep to the wonderfully soothing sounds of of big propliners running up each of their engines, doing mag-checks, etc., then rolling on max take-off power, trundling down one of the north/south runways, and fading away in their long climb-out for parts unknown. Lordy, I wish I could take all of us back in a time machine just so we could set up our cots in my back yard on a warm summer night and listen to the grand music of the aeroplanes. But wait, there's more!! Seattle in the same years was the world capital of Unlimited Hydroplane racing. You talk about SOUND, let me tell you about a full field of seven 30ft Unlimiteds with 28-liter Rolls and Allison V-12s with 4-valve heads and big centrifugal blowers, making up to, I kid you not, 130" manifold pressure as they came down for the clock start. The lake reflected that SOUND, and the men and boys who heard it have never forgotten. I could say more on this, if you want.

@daveogarf 2 жыл бұрын

("...turn quite SLOWLY)

@grasimosalexis6051 2 жыл бұрын

Something is missing... It is the CL 215

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

Good call! not quite as good sounding as the Convair, but excellent nonetheless. i think we need a volume II of this video!

@K2WH 2 жыл бұрын

You left out the Super Constellation, the best sounding prop in the world.

@aircraftadventures-vids 2 жыл бұрын

It's a majestic plane, but as someone else commented, it's dominated by the huge prop sound....which I suppose is enjoyable too. I enjoyed it nonetheless when I saw one take off about 20 years ago in Miami (OPF)

@bobbates7343 2 ай бұрын

When the Lancaster fly's over my home it can be heard very far off . The only aircraft that I could hear from farther away was an old huge helicopter that no longer fly's over here . I think the investment company that owned it must have bought a newer chopper to fly people from Toronto to Hamilton and perhaps other places

@flamingoaviation 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, the STOL capability of the Caribou is impressive...

@aircraftadventures-vids 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed it is! I can't imagine how much time I've wasted pouring through Caribou videos and watching them do their stuff. There are some very impressive demos that the Aussies performed with them - plus some footage of Caribous operating in the jungle. Pretty surreal when you realize they operated them as recently as 2009!

@aircraftadventures-vids 3 жыл бұрын

I also saw the 'Bou at Sun n Fun a couple of times, it was hard to not just walk around it and stare. It's huge!

@flamingoaviation 3 жыл бұрын

I think Air America operated the Caribous in SE Asia. I remember reading an account where a pilot would bring along extra props in case he skimmed jungle growth on short final into remote strips...