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| Alexis Park Inn & Suites |
| 1165 S. Riverside Drive |
| Iowa City, Iowa 52246 |
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| Local: 319 337-8665 |
| Fax: 319 351-4102 |
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This page was last updated on 03/12/2010 |
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| Alexis Park Inn & Suites Jingle -- Yes, we have a *real* radio jingle that plays on all of our ads. Click to hear our latest radio ad, if you dare! | |
| Antonov AN-2 Starting Up Ah, the lovely sound of a radial engine rumbling to life... | |
| Bad Day for Ground Control Listen as this ground controller tries to sort out an incredible mess at JFK Airport in New York City. | |
| Bell 407 Turbine Helicopter Start-up From the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department. | |
| Great Sounding Engine! Nothing else sounds like a Rolls-Royce Merlin... | |
| Hawker Tempest Flyby The lovely sound of a a 24 cylinder Napier Sabre engine at high power! | |
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New 1/2/10
Hypoxia!
This amazing audio file follows a flight as the pilot and copilot succumb to
hypoxia. Here are the details, quoting Captain Willie Hernandez: The voice of Hypoxia - Kalitta 66 "Boy were these guys lucky. Note during the radio replies from the aircraft that several times the pilot implies that things are "just fine". He (they) have no idea how impaired they are. Hypoxia can be like laughing gas...till you happily pass out." "That they were above FL260 implies that they hadn't lost all pressurization...otherwise they wouldn't have had as much useful time of consciousness (UTC) as they did to make this recording. Miraculous that they still had enough presence of mind to contact and communicate with the center." "Here is the back story: The events unfolded on July 26, 2008 when controller Jay McCombs accepted the hand-off of KFS66 (call-sign Kalitta 66), which appeared to have a stuck mike creating incomprehensible transmissions. Unclear to those in the Center, however, was that the co-pilot’s arm was all the while moving violently and uncontrollably on the other end as the captain worked hard to hand fly the aircraft. Through the help of another pilot’s translation, McCombs learned that the aircraft had declared an emergency." "The plane was quickly changing altitude and McCombs immediately began to suggest closer airports, only to receive a reply that they wanted to continue to Ypsilanti, MI. Amid the chaos to translate the captain’s words, fellow controller Stephanie Bevins turns on the receiver so that she can now hear the pilot with her own headset. As she thinks through the symptoms in her head, she concludes that he must be hypoxic, a serious condition involving lack of oxygen due to pressurization problems. She knows immediately that they must descend the aircraft." "Following Bevin’s initiative, McCombs begins bringing the aircraft to the lowest altitude available in order to alleviate the possible oxygen deprivation. Unable to answer questions, the pilot is only able to respond to direct commands that the controllers now begin to voice. “Descend and maintain,” they repeat. Remarkably, the captain’s inability to turn on autopilot requires him to have to work in order to fly the airplane, keeping him conscious and the plane airborne. The pilot’s words gradually become more understandable, and around 11,000 feet, he returns to normal and confirms that he had, indeed, been suffering from hypoxia." |
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| Icing Mayday! Another terrifying audio file of a pilot who has lost control. This aircraft -- a Fed Ex Cessna Caravan -- flew into icing conditions and lost control. | |
| JFK Tower Evacuation This ground control audio tape illustrates the events that transpired during a fire in the control tower at Kennedy Airport on June 25, 2008. | |
| JFK Ground vs. Air China This ground control audio tape illustrates why English is the chosen language of aviation. It would seem that this Air China pilot would benefit from a few more lessons. Contributed by ProwashSW. | |
| MAYDAY-MAYDAY-MAYDAY! This audio file of a VFR pilot who has lost control in the clouds is absolutely terrifying. Recorded by the Flight Service Station in Fort Dodge, Iowa. | |
| MidAir at Long Island This is tape of the Long Island tower controller dealing with the aftermath of a midair collision between a Piper Saratoga and a Cessna in October 2007. Amazingly, both pilots survive, and the controller keeps his cool all the way through... | |
| MiG Shootdown! Electrifying in-cockpit audio from the January 4, 1989 Libyan Mig-23 shoot-down by U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats. Click here to read an official report on this incident. | |
| Pilot Incapacitated! Audio tape of a New England air traffic controller talking down a passenger whose father -- the pilot -- has become incapacitated. | |
| Radial Fly-over! Nothing sounds like a round engine! | |
| P-40 Warhawk Fly-By A unique sound, indeed. | |
| P-51 Mustang Fly-By Another Mustang engine recording... | |
| Starting a Pratt & Whitney -- 28 cylinders? Now THAT is a radial engine! | |
| Super Corsair Start-Up An awesome audio of the Planes of Fame Museum's Super Corsair starting up. Nothing sounds like an R-4360. | |
| Turboprop Start-Up -- A great .wav file of a a 250-C20 gas turbine engine starting. (This engine powers light helicopters like the Hughes 500 and Bell Jet Ranger, and was originally built by Detroit Diesel Allison. It is now manufactured by Rolls Royce. It weighs 158 pounds and puts out 427 shaft horsepower.) | |
| The Mighty Cherokee The sound of a 4-cylinder Lycoming O-320 flying over... | |
| Twin Commander Start-up A JetProp with TFE331-10 engines starting! | |
| V-1 Flying Bomb Attack This haunting file records the arrival of a Nazi V-1 Flying Bomb over London during World War II. When the engine stopped, no one knew where it would land (and explode). | |
| Yak Start Up This is a nice, long audio file of a Yak-52's round engine starting up and idling. Give me a round engine, any day! | |
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