YEAH, We Are!!!! :giggle:
But, Havin Fun!!!!
It's funny... I'll confess something here that I've never revealed in public before.
From (almost) the moment of my birth, I thought I was always cursed with this "savant like" affinity for sounds... mechanical sounds.
While my "curse" has a decent toe hold in the area of Trains/Locomotives (witness my "Screamers" thread
), it has manifest itself
primarily in the world of commercial "jet engines." I can literally identify the make, and sometimes the model # of various jet engines,
simply by listening to the sounds they make upon ignition, taxi, take off, etc. Should I ever hit the Zillion $$$ Lottery, will I buy aircraft
engines that are the most fuel efficient, or the least costly to maintain, or with the best performance? Of course not! I'll buy the engines
that *sound* the coolest!
(First things first, though... I'll have EMD make me a pair of original "Screamers" and some track to run them on)
For years, I thought I was absolutely nuts about this... And then... I discovered "YouTube." When I saw the total tonnage of video on YouTube
in re: aircraft engine ignitions, taxis, take offs, landings, etc. (most from the inside - which is wondrous since one really isn't permitted to use
electronic devices below 10,000ft), I had to laugh at my embarrassed self for even considering that I might be even the slightest bit crazy.. And, more
than just the video footage, it was the "comments" people left for each video (i.e. "Wow, that was the coolest take off" ... or "Man, those GE90-115Bs
sound impressive on ignition!", etc. etc.).
Trust me... we are not alone in this...
