Prop Plane Recording August 14th 2010
August 14, 2010, Sandpoint, Idaho – Early Saturday morning I was out in the garden picking fresh raspberries and thinking about what I was going to do for the day when I heard this distant hum overhead. Then out of the blue, 3 bi-planes in formation flew very low over. I thought to myself “this is very strange way out here in the country” so I ran inside and searched the internet for any kind of air show event in North Idaho. I found The 6th annual Sandpoint Fly-In event was happening now.
With all that I had to do today the last thing I thought of doing was to gear up and go record. What the hell I thought, when you get the chance to record something cool, go get it. So, I packed up my CSS-5 and the 702 and headed for town.
When I got there dozens of prop planes were parked and flying around. There is always a band playing at these kind of events so I walked to the end of the runway where they start begin take-off. After a few minutes planes started pulling up and performing a quick engine run-up as they prepared for take off. Nobody really bothered me as I was standing in the scorching sun with a boom and a microphone. The airport security guys just waved as the drove by on ATV’s. Small town airports are great, you can wander around very close to the runway as long as you don’t step out on the runway.
I was able to get right up next to and behind the airplanes as they were getting ready for departure. I got some great recordings with minimal background destractions. Check them out below.
I really should have been painting the garage.
Prop plane engine starts, run-up’s and taxi by’s:
Vintage and stunt prop plane pass by’s:
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 “Yellow Peril” (4417)
1927 Curtiss Wright Travel Air 4000 (NC1499)
1928 Boeing B-40C Mail plane. The only B-40-C flying & oldest Boeing flying
1928 Boeing B-40C Mail plane. The only B-40-C flying & oldest Boeing flying
1930 Laird model LC-1B-300 NC10402 engine running
1930 Laird model LC-1B-300 NC10402 and Sanken CSS-5 Microphone
Images and sounds copyright 2010 Frank Bry – Creative Sound Design. All Rights Reserved.
VERY VERY COOL!
VERY VERY COOL!
Are you going to batch them up and sell them?
Yes, I was planning on putting them into a SoundBox. I have more… I just need to edit and master. Very soon, thanks for asking and I’m glad you like them. -Frank