Quietness aboard the B-24

That got me annoyed straight up. I can't say I've been in one, but I can imagine it would be an extremely noisy experience.

I understand it's a movie and we have to hear the dialogue, but it appeared as if absolutely no effort was made to emulate that aspect of the conditions aboard such a plane which without hearing protection I can guess would have been near deafening.

They were talking as if they were in a cushy contemporary airliner, not an uninsulated bomber with four enormous unmuffled piston engines, open machine gun hatches (and in some scenes bomb bay) and doubtless all manner of vibration racket, doing 250 mph.

As for just the wind noise alone, I've ridden a motorcycle at 160 mph and it's quite unpleasantly loud even with a relatively streamlined and padded helmet on: Let alone the air making it's way over and through the many draggy edges and openings of the plane at 100mph faster.


...then whoa, differences...