helicopter HKP 5 Soundscape Swedish Airforce

HKP 5 startup

The sound of a HKP 5 B also known as Huges 300c. This is a piston-powered light training helicopter used by the Swedish Air Force between the early nineteen- eighties until 2002 (the earlier model was first manufacture in the nineteen- fifties). This was mainly a training helicopter but could be used in military action for surveillance and fire control. The helicopter can take two persons. The pilot and one passenger.
The sound was recorded while getting on the helicopter and then from inside the cockpit.

Sound recorder: Fredrik Johansson
Picture: Fredrik Johansson

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1980s
51.6 MB
2 min 59 s
2 (Stereo)
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48 kHz
2304 kb/s
32 bit
96 dB

Recorded on September 20, 2018
Airport
Gnesta, SWEDEN
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