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Originally Posted by ApS
Thanks for that. 
At 8:58-AM this morning, a bomber is even overhead in the cloudy rain. 
'Can't see it, but there's no mistaking That Deep Sound of four big radial piston engines—as there's no turbocharging whine like Lockheed's C-130.
(The other likely big-engined aircraft, aside from the turbocharged DC-7, which I haven't seen for ages). |
The bombers that are here are "piston powered gasoline" engines. The C-130 is a turbo prop, jet engine turning a propeller. That's why they sound so different.