What ya listening to?

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Racer88 said:
24/7 on loop for me!
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Occupational hazard. I wish I had taken better care of my hearing. Unfortunately, not every situation allowed me to wear protection. Gunfire, steam and gas turbines, high pressure boilers, huge fans and pumps. The combination of all that trashed my hearing. Van Halen probably didn't help either. :)
 
Bongo Lewi said:
Occupational hazard. I wish I had taken better care of my hearing. Unfortunately, not every situation allowed me to wear protection. Gunfire, steam and gas turbines, high pressure boilers, huge fans and pumps. The combination of all that trashed my hearing. Van Halen probably didn't help either. :)
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Same same. Lots of noise exposure. I'm sure my time on the aircraft carrier didn't help.
 
I've taken pretty good care of my hearing, but still consider myself fortunate to still have excellent hearing even after over 40+ years in and around aircraft of all types. I'm also saddened that so many of my brethren were not so fortunate, including those here! :(

Side note: In my previous career before retiring, I had the opportunity to fly over 75 aircraft types, including two of THE LOUDEST aircraft cockpits I've ever flown in, the P-51 Mustang and the B-25 Mitchell, which gave me such an appreciation for why so many of those WWII aviators suffered significant hearing loss!
 
BeerHunter said:
I've taken pretty good care of my hearing, but still consider myself fortunate to still have excellent hearing even after over 40+ years in and around aircraft of all types. I'm also saddened that so many of my brethren were not so fortunate, including those here! :(

Side note: In my previous career before retiring, I had the opportunity to fly over 75 aircraft types, including two of THE LOUDEST aircraft cockpits I've ever flown in, the P-51 Mustang and the B-25 Mitchell, which gave me such an appreciation for why so many of those WWII aviators suffered significant hearing loss!
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Remarkable! I suppose some of it is genetic. I recall a couple of pilots who were local men I knew from my childhood. WW2/Korea vets. I dont remember what aircraft they flew but they were very hearing impaired. One had an amplifier thing he hung around his neck and it had earphones. The amp looked like a transistor radio.

I'm envious! I have always wanted to fly those WW2 era warbirds. Never got my ticket. Life got in the way. Did ground school and logged 20 hours years ago. In my 20's. I did get one bucket list item checked and flew a restored Stearman that didn't have the dual controls removed. Pilot supervising of course. Stick vs. yoke was a different experience. Slow and low. That was 30 minutes of pure joy for me.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
Remarkable! I suppose some of it is genetic. I recall a couple of pilots who were local men I knew from my childhood. WW2/Korea vets. I dont remember what aircraft they flew but they were very hearing impaired. One had an amplifier thing he hung around his neck and it had earphones. The amp looked like a transistor radio.

I'm envious! I have always wanted to fly those WW2 era warbirds. Never got my ticket. Life got in the way. Did ground school and logged 20 hours years ago. In my 20's. I did get one bucket list item checked and flew a restored Stearman that didn't have the dual controls removed. Pilot supervising of course. Stick vs. yoke was a different experience. Slow and low. That was 30 minutes of pure joy for me.
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Pardon to the OP for the temp thread drift: I have a few dozen hours in my buddy's PT-17 Stearman, since he needed a Flight Review with an CFI every 24 months, which I always performed gratis as a professional courtesy for a fellow Civil Service Engineer and I was one of the few tailwheel aircraft instructors around. He'd bought it years prior and had performed a beautiful rebuild, complete with Navy WW II markings before he was transferred to Southern MD from another DoD facility in Bucks Co., PA, hangared it across from my hangar, and had a side business booking rides on the weekends. So when I was available, I often helped usher his passengers into the cockpit and then spun the inertia starter, too! That was quite the fun airplane to fly! :love:
 
BeerHunter said:
Pardon to the OP for the temp thread drift: I have a few dozen hours in my buddy's PT-17 Stearman, since he needed a Flight Review with an CFI every 24 months, which I always performed gratis as a professional courtesy for a fellow Civil Service Engineer and I was one of the few tailwheel aircraft instructors around. He'd bought it years prior and had performed a beautiful rebuild, complete with Navy WW II markings before he was transferred to Southern MD from another DoD facility in Bucks Co., PA, hangared it across from my hangar, and had a side business booking rides on the weekends. So when I was available, I often helped usher his passengers into the cockpit and then spun the inertia starter, too! That was quite the fun airplane to fly! :love:
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Awesome. True seat of the pants flying. Wind in your face. What a great experience. I don't devote much time to gazing in the rear view mirror or expressing regret, but if I had it to do over again I'd be flying.
 
One has to wonder how the genius of Benny Hill would have mimicked and portrayed, B Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden and certainly Harris and H Clinton????

Quite an interesting amount of information about the man in this video!
Now I know where the creation of The Man Show probably originated from!


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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOQgGuwiwRM
 

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