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Qantas City Flyer 670 - Preflight Idle.wav

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digifishmusic

March 13th, 2009

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Soundscapes > Urban
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Air Travel / Airways / Airlines

The sounds in the cabin after being pushed back from the gate. This is prior to the main engines starting, the 'engine-like' noise you can hear is the small Auxiliary power unit in the tail of the plane,(a small jet) that runs the generators and aircon before the main engines are going.

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aeroplane
aircraft
airplane
ambience
announcement
boeing-737
cabin-noise
field-recording
gas-turbine
jet
pre-flight
qantas

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

3:42.906

File size

37.5 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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digifishmusic

16 years, 8 months ago

Hi Matthew, I think you are on fairly objective and safe ground with the Auxiliary power plant article at wiki :)

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matthew Galt...

16 years, 8 months ago

People always tell me to be careful about wikipedia entries; check them against somewhere else to check whether they are indeed true.

Great one. As I said in an earlyer private message to you last week, do you have that flight's takeoff? Hadn't got a response from you; I wondered where you had gone!

Look forward to your reply

Cheers

digifishmusic

16 years, 8 months ago

Learn all about Auxiliary commercial aircraft power generators here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_power_unit

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