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"Big Bombers" Weekend at Anoka County Airport
The weekend of July 17-20, 2009 brought three vintage WWII aircraft to Anoka County Airport in Blaine, MN. The event was part of the Collings Foundation's 2009 Wings of Freedom Tour, and was hosted locally by the Golden Wings Museum.
The first audio clip, below, is a layered composition featuring comments by aviation historian and airshow announcer Tom Lymburn, along with sounds from the Collings Foundation's Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. During the commentary, the B17 flies into the soundscape from the east, crosses over the airport mid-field and enters a wide pattern for runway 36. After landing, it eventually taxis to the display area where it stops with its right wingtip just a few feet over my head. As the plane's giant radial engines spin down, you'll hear the sound of metal wheel chocks being set into place.
This B17 was accompanied by a Consolidated B-24J Liberator and its crew, along with a North American TP-51C Mustang flown by Reno Air Race pilot Will Whiteside. Here, the P51 makes a fly-by over runway 36 and then lands:
A few minutes later, the P51 taxis just beyond the viewing area, turns off the taxiway and powers to a stop:
The B24 Liberator, returning from a demonstration flight, makes a fly-by over runway 36 and then lands:
The following clips were recorded July 20th, as the three aircraft departed for Sheboygan, WI, the next stop on their tour:
P51C Mustang -- takeoff from runway 18, and then a fast fly-by over 36 :: Listen (1:45) >>>
B-24J Liberator -- takeoff from runway 18 and departure to the east :: Listen (:48) >>>
B-17G Flying Fortress -- takeoff from runway 18 and departure to the east :: Listen (:40) >>>
Finally... that same day, folks from the Golden Wings Museum were doing some testing on the museum's beautifully restored Ford Tri-motor. Here are three recordings of some of those activities:
Engine run-up :: Listen (4:07) >>>
Startup and taxi toward runway 18 :: Listen (4:46) >>>
Test flight takeoff from runway 18 :: Listen (1:26) >>>
Note: A few of these clips have seemingly long intervals between the more interesting portions. I chose to edit them that way to preserve the actual timeframes of some of the events.
Stolen Moments from Walt Disney World
Can I get away with this? I suppose I'll find out soon enough. Below are three recordings I made at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Park during a February 2009 family vacation trip.
"Celebrate a Dream Come True" Parade :: Listen (15:50) >>>
"Cinderella's Royal Saxaphonists" :: Listen (1:58) >>>
Fake Elvis Does Neil Diamond
Inside the Beer Tent at "Catfish Days" in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, July, 8, 2006. A pretend Elvis panders to veterans with an ancient Neil Diamond tune. (Have you left the room yet?) He urges the audience to put "hands together" with him -- on "1" and "3". Try not to get this bad boy stuck in your head for the next 24 hours!
"AMERICA"
Written by Neil Diamond
1980 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)
Sandstone Ice Festival
In December 2005, a group of folks interested in rock and ice climbing got together at an abandoned rock quarry in Sandstone, Minnesota for a day of ice climbing. Here's a multi-layered composition from sounds I recorded that day.
Thunder Overhead
A sound recording cliche, I suppose, but I like it, and that's what these pages are about -- sounds that I find interesting. I was able to capture two clean thunder claps almost directly overhead, with some slap echoes off the back of my home. The two discharges actually occurred about 2 minutes apart, but I pulled them together into this single clip. I recommend listening to it with headphones.
Jet Duck
A duck flies right-to-left, low and slow over my stereo microphone array -- close enough that it picked up the jet-like sound of air flowing around and through the bird's flight feathers. Other sounds on this clip include winnowing snipe and a grouse drumming. The duck finally touches down in a pond to the mic's left.
Lake Ice Booming
In December 2004, I asked the Nature Recordists e-mail forum for advice about capturing sounds made by lake ice. Rich Peet, a list participant at the time, who lives in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, responded with specifics about a rare ice-booming phenomenon he'd been studying for a couple years. A few days later, the ideal weather conditions he outlined came together, so the two of us went out after it. Gingerly stepping out onto the thin ice of a suburban St. Paul lake, this is what we heard.
