[Rca2000]

Mind if I ask an airplane question?(it will sound dumb, but I am curious:)

In movies, when a plane is heading down at a high rate of speed, whether it be in a crash, or just a "maneuver", there is that screeching, high-pitched sound, that increases in frequency, as the plane descends. Is that just tv, or does the air slipping over the wings REALLY make that sound, if a plane is diving fast?

[Dashing Dasher]

It's all TV...

The noises an airplane makes are usually engine and prop related.

I've seen gliders do aerobatics and you can just make out a whistling - without the engine noise. With the engine noise - you'd never hear it.

(I never mind asnwering an airplane question - if I know the answer!)

;-)

[Nowhere Man]

In movies, when a plane is heading down at a high rate of speed, whether it be in a crash, or just a "maneuver", there is that screeching, high-pitched sound, that increases in frequency, as the plane descends. Is that just tv, or does the air slipping over the wings REALLY make that sound, if a plane is diving fast?

I know Dasher already answered but she said the smae thing I did, it is all TV and sound editing. I always get a big kick out of "The Dukes of Hazzard" where you hear the General Lee "screeching" its tires like it was on pavement yet they are on a dirt road or when they play the sound effects of a M1918 BAR auto rifle when someone fires an M-16 or you hear the sound of a .22LR rifle when someone fires an M1 Garand.