Sounds for Sleeping ⨀ B-29 Superfortress ⨀ No Dark Screen ⨀ 10 Hours ⨀ Mechanical Ambiance

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  @aimotuska · 3 years ago · pinned

  Thank you, this has changed many otherwise sleepless nights for me.

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  @hawkeyeten2450 · 4 years ago

  This makes me think of what the (often overlooked) Korean War B-29 crews must have felt, flying night missions over North Korea. It's almost eerie, you're all alone in a dark sky...except you might not be alone. Will the MiG jets find your formation despite the darkness? Will your mission be completed successfully? So many thoughts that would have gone through their heads, even with possibly a beautiful view of stars.

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  @jimtownsend7899 · 3 years ago

  This reminds me of flying across the Pacific (transpac) in the U.S. Navy P-3 Orion. There was certainly a difference in the sound, since we had T-56A-14 turboprop engines, which turned at a constant 13820 rpm, and the whine of the jet engine, but the effect is the same. All throughout the aircraft, crew and passengers would find a spot to stretch out or curl up to snooze in the cold, dark aircraft. There were 2 bunks in the aft, but they were reserved for the off-duty pilot and flight engineer. One night, I decided to take a break from reading through some paperwork, and I walked up to the flight station (cockpit). Through the heavy blackout curtains, and into the even more dark compartment with the glowing red instrument panels below the windscreens, through which one could see the utter blackness over the mid-Pacific Ocean. As I stood behind the pilots and the flight engineer, I realized that all three of them were asleep! You should have seen them wake with a start when I asked, "Shouldn't at least one of you be awake?" It was funny, since there was little chance of us missing Japan, still hours away, but in a very real sense, you can appreciate from listening to this video how hypnotic the constant drone and lack of sensory stimulation can be in real life.

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  @Str8OuttaFrayser919 · 3 years ago (edited)

  My grandfather was a tail gunner for the flying superfortresses in the Korean War. He passed away a few years ago. He will always be my hero.

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  @Oracle13 · 3 years ago

  10 hours.<br>No ads interrupting the experience.<br>Impeccable sound and a beautiful visual to go with it. Thank you so much for creating this.

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  @multiversepatriot3148 · 5 months ago

  POV: It&apos;s 1946 and you&apos;re flying in one of the last ditch raids by the Allies to kill General Deathshead, destroy his superweapons and turn around the disaster this war has become.

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  @mactire5964 · 2 years ago

  A B17 Flying Fortress vid opened me to the world of sleep ambience

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• AI

  @Airborne80 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s like a flight over the Atlantic. &nbsp; So relaxing......trying not to think about what&apos;s ahead.

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  @792slayer · 3 years ago

  This is going in my rotation with the urban combat and artillery rainstorm tracks. The sound of four Wright R-3350 engines at cruise power is so soothing.

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  @613guy · 6 months ago

  We&apos;re going all the way to Tokyo with this one

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  @rookieODST4450 · 3 weeks ago

  I never really believed in white noise till I started using it for my studies. And this is by far the best one I&apos;ve found.

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  @MrGr40bruce · 3 years ago (edited)

  I apent 4 years as an aircrew member on VC118s, another type of plane with 4 similar large radial engines. Long slow flights all over the world and crossing the Pacific seemed forever. &nbsp;Though a different cockpit, the sound is so similar your video took me right back to my USAF days 50 years ago. Though not a combat aircraft, we fought the weather and mechanical emergencies, along with incredible boredom as the engines lulled us to sleep, like this video&apos;s sound is doing to me now. &nbsp;Very well done.

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